Natural Beauty From The Garden: 2nd Edition

Here in the second edition of Natural Beauty from the Garden, author Janice Cox presents more than 200 recipes for home beauty treatments that make use of common flowers, plants, herbs, grasses, and trees to create useful and lovely products for all aspects of skin, bath, and hair care. She provides easy, step-by-step recipes for such items as: Aztec Princess Facial Scrub, Rhubarb Hair Lightener, Luffa Soap, Lavender Mouthwash, Scarborough Fair Shampoo, 007 Skin Bracer, Strawberry Jam Gloss, Peach Leaf Rinse, Clover Honey Conditioner, Apricot Baby Oil, Four Seasons Facial, Saint John's Wort Oil, Alfalfa Mint Footbath, Hollyhock Skin Toner, Fresh Peppermint Toothpaste, Arabian Jasmine Powder, Hemingway's Havana Aftershave, Floral Facial Steam, Japanese Spice Bath, Jojoba Bean, Cuticle Cream, Watermelon Bath Splash, and many, many more. You don't have to have a garden, or even a window box, to make the recipes here since you can find every ingredient you'll need in natural food stores or farmers markets. Natural Beauty from the Garden simply encourages bringing the outdoors in and promotes a fun, economical, natural beauty regimen. But if you are a gardener, you'll enjoy the more than 100 garden notes sprinkled throughout the text on soil type, tools, containers, growing tips, and simple, whimsical garden designs. Children will love the fruity recipes that are provided with them in mind, as well as the outdoor activities, like planting the sunflower garden and preparing the rabbit topiary, that will make any backyard magical. This is a charming collection of beauty and garden freshness. If you love to pamper yourself, grow a little pot of herbs on the patio or a large rambling garden of flowers out back, you won't want to be without it!