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Go green and get gorgeous
The promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle―shampoo that gives your hair more body, lotions that smooth away wrinkles, makeup that makes your skin look flawless, and potions that take it all off again. But while conventional products say they’ll make you more beautiful, they contain toxins and preservatives that are both bad for the environment and bad for your body―including synthetic fragrances, petrochemicals, and even formaldehyde. In the end, they damage your natural vitality and good looks.
Fortunately, fashion writer, nutritionist, and beauty maven Julie Gabriel helps you find the true path to natural, healthy, green beauty. She helps you decipher labels on every cosmetic product you pick up and avoid toxic and damaging chemicals with her detailed Toxic Ingredients List. You’ll learn valuable tips on what your skin really needs to be healthy, glowing, and youthful.
Julie goes one-step further―and shows you how to make your own beauty products that feed your skin, save your bank account, and are healthy for your body and the environment, such as:
• Cleansing creams and oils • toners • facials • under eye circle remedies • anti-aging serums • lip balms • scrubs • exfoliators • clay and cleansing masks
• moisturizers • acne treatments • makeup remover • teeth whiteners • shampoos, conditioners • fragrances • sun protection • bug repellants • baby products • and much more!
With her friendly, thorough, and helpful advice; fabulous beauty recipes; product recommendations and ratings; Toxic Ingredients List; and a complete appendix of online resources, Julie Gabriel gives you all the information you need to go green without going broke and become a more natural, healthy, and beautiful you.
Publisher : HCI (Sept. 8 2008)
Language : English
Paperback : 416 pages
ISBN-10 : 0757307477
ISBN-13 : 978-0757307478
Item weight : 780 g
Dimensions : 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
Empowering information for the future bath and body chef!
I haven’t read this book front to back, mostly because it’s so lengthy. But I have to say, if you’re looking for a book to help you make your own lotions/cream/body products, I’d recommend this book. Not only are there recipes and ideas but the author goes into detail on WHY certain ingredients need to be included. Like for a body moisturizer for instance. She doesn’t just give a few recipes and light information. She goes into scientific/chemistry detail to explain why certain ingredients are needed and how they effect each other and what would happen if you didn’t use them in conjunction with each other. For example, in a body moisturizer you need an emulsifier, she will explain that but then give you a list of what you can use as a natural emulsifier.I feel like the author is setting the reader up for future success and information to help the reader come up with their own recipes eventually. I like that. Empowering information. She lays it all out there.
Excellent Guide!
I really enjoyed this book and consider it as an excellent reference guide for someone who wants to know which are the harmful ingredients to avoid in cosmetics. The book is easy to read and contains valuable advices on how to go green. Julie Gabriel supports all her claims based on existing researches and provides you with her own unbiased recommendations.Also, she provides some of her own homemade recipes and supplies a list of online resources to do your own research or buy products online.This book will definitely help you to be more proactive in protecting yourself and your family’s health. This book is not just for women, but for men as well.If you want to be an informed customer, you need this book.
Lovely and useful
Learnt a lot from this book. Though couldn’t find the alternative for some things, I’d recommend this book to someone who seeks advice and broad intro into natural cosmetics world.
Average book
Not quite what I expected or hoped for. Thought it would deal a bit more with making your own products, but just recommends a lot of items she feels are safer. I do appreciate the comprehensive list at the back of all the unsafe ingredients used in cosmetics & why they are unsafe.
This book is amazing. I wish everybody would read it. There’s loads of information in it and very well written. It just amazes me how much we don’t know about the stuff we actually put on ourselves daily. If you’re hesitating about buying this book, don’t. It is an essential one. and not only for you but for your whole family. All I can say is get the book and spread the world: Go Green!
I really enjoyed this book by Julie Gabriel. Not only is it very informative but it is also easy to read. I love that she gives us a list of ingredients to look out for and avoid and she also tells us why and where to find more info about them. This book is a great starting point to doing your own research on natural and organic skincare and beauty products. What I really found interesting was how the European Union has already banned the use of some of these toxic ingredients and so has California. So what I’d like to know is: when is the U.S. going to wake up?I also liked that she gives us some products to check out and gives us resources to get ingredients for making our own products. I honestly didn’t realize that you could purchase things like coenzyme Q10, for instance. Yes, some of these ingredients can be expensive but if you’re using them in several different products however, you will be spending less to make your products than you would be spending on pre-made products. I realize that making your own products is not something that everyone can or will do but I am glad she included the information for those of us that can and want to.And obviously, the products that Ms. Gabriel recommends are not going to work or be liked by everyone, but that is the case with any product recommendation. That is why it’s called a “recommendation”. It’s not as if she said, “You all absolutely have to go out and get THIS cleanser or THIS moisturizer, it’s the ONLY one that works!” I personally found a few very good products that she recommended.The bottome line is, just as I said, this is a great starting point on doing your own research. No one out there is going to do all the homework for you. At least Ms. Gabriel cared enough to put this book out there for others to learn from. I like this book and even though I first read it from my library, I found enough useful info in it to purchase my own copy.
I’ve been sort of green for a year but this book really opened my eyes to how committed i want to be to avoid so much chemical mess! Really inspiring, informative and helpful so those, like me, have been struggling with the full conversion- food and beauty. It really gave me back my focus and advanced my understanding. Great book!
Lovely.I absolutely adore this book. I’m a big book reader of all different types, and this by far is my favorite. It helps that I have an interest in being green and a fascination for beauty…but of the materials that are out there, Julie does an amazing job putting the facts forth and offering a single point of reference. I’m studying aesthetics at a ‘natural’ school, and so far everything in this book is accurate with industry standards. It goes a step beyond by detailing individual ingredients, which I’ve found myself wondering about and wanting to know more in classes. I frequently discuss this book with my instructors and they are sometimes surprised to learn about new information. One of my instructors is buying the book himself. So many friends I’ve shared this book with find it intriguing. The recipes are a great addition also.My friend refers to this book as my bible, and I’d agree with her. I trust the information, and I thoroughly enjoy reading it. It is an excellent guide.
This book is mind blowing, it’s full of information on commercial skincare and full of tips on how to make your own or if you are not into that at least how to read a label to get the best from your skincare products.