Cosmetics : Easy homemade recipesHomemade cosmetics are makeup products that are produced outside of a manufacturer’s laboratory setting, either for personal use or independent sales. The cosmetics are produced using available base products, ingredients and colorants. Benefit of these homemade products includes control of ingredients and customizable colors.This book contains many recipes of cosmetic products including:• Soap making (bar soap, liqui...

Discover the joys of all-natural body care. Stephanie Tourles shows you how to use fruit, flowers, herbs, and minerals to craft healthy products that promote radiant skin, strong nails, shiny hair, and an elevated mood. Pamper yourself from head to toe with products like Strawberry Cleanser, Pineapple Sunflower Scrub, and Almond Rose Body Lotion. Gentle on your skin and free of harsh chemicals found in commercial products, you’ll want to indulge yourself over and over with these luxuriousl...

Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating weeds found to speed the healing of wounds, soothe skin irritations, calm uneasy stomachs, and ward off illnesses. Now you can plan and grow your own garden first aid kit.In these pages, you’ll learn the basics of gardening in your backyard-or on your windowsill or porch-including instruc...

Make your own liquid soaps and body products right in your kitchen!Catherine Failor shows you how to use her simple double-boiler technique to create luxurious shower gels, revitalizing shampoos, energizing body scrubs, and much more. Step-by-step instructions teach you how to turn basic ingredients like cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba into sweet-smelling liquid soaps.You’ll soon be experimenting with your favorite oils and additives as you craft custom-m...

Leave no soapstone unturned!Soapmaking has always been a popular craft with a dedicated group of followers, but with the explosion of urban homesteading and people looking to go green, noncrafters are now joining in on the fun. Whether it's making natural soap to live greener, give as gifts, save money, or make money, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Making Natural Soaps has everything the new soap maker will need to create organic, natural soaps of...

Look great, smell wonderful, and feel good as you make your own homemade natural body care products.In this Storey BASICS® guide to holistic beauty, Rosemary Gladstar shares more than 30 simple recipes for cleansers, moisturizers, and creams comprised of essential oils and herbs. Make unique shampoos for lustrous, fragrant hair and learn Gladstar’s amazing five-step system for glowing skin.Skip the harsh commercial ingredients and use nature’s closet to kee...

Learn everything you need to know about making your own soap by hand with this comprehensive guide.Through clear, step-by-step instructions, master soapmaker Susan Miller Cavitch leads you through every step of the soapmaking process and teaches you how to:Craft exotic and practical soaps in your homeBlend and use essential oils and natural colorantsDesign multi-colored, marbled, and imprinted soapsUnderstand the chemistr...

Learn the way of the forager and identify, harvest, and prepare wild plants by season.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to gather wild plants growing around you for your food and medicine instead of a drugstore to treat a common ailment? The Forager's Handbook is an essential guide for living this lifestyle year-round.With more than forty years of experience in the world of plants, forager Vickie Shufer empowers you to maintain and impro...

Protect yourself, your children, your pets, and your home from bugs — without using harsh or toxic chemicals! Herbalist Stephanie Tourles offers 75 simple recipes for safe, effective bug repellents you can make at home from all-natural ingredients. For protection from mosquitos, ticks, and other biting insects, there are sprays, balms, body oils, and tinctures, with scents ranging from eucalyptus to floral, lemon, vanilla, and woodsy spice. There are also recipes for pets, such as herbal s...

James Wong is back, putting his ethnobotanical expertise to use once again, with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies, showing you and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year.Whether you're fed up with your hormones, worried about your baby's nappy rash, your partner is prone to a sore-throat, or leg-waxing is proving just too expensive to maintain, Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year With James Wong offers over 100 great new remedies to soothe all manner of com...

Jan Berry is the founder of the blog The Nerdy Farm Wife, which has nearly 35,000 Facebook likes, 14,000 followers on Pinterest and over 15,000 email subscribers. She writes a monthly column for HobbyFarms.com and is a regular contributor to Natural Herbal Living magazine. Many of her projects have been featured on other blogs and websites, such as Natural Living Mama, Purposeful Nutrition, The Mind to Homestead, Thoroughly Natural and more. She lives in Monroe, Virginia.

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.