Handmade Beauty: Natural Recipes for your Face, Body and Hair Hardcover – 21 April 2016

What an informative and well written book. It presents a solid guide not just in terms of how products can be made but also offers a wealth of sound advice in terms of raw materials and products and their possible uses and benefits. All this is done in a way which is easy to understand, friendly and relaxed and will appeal to readers and enthusiasts across a wide spectrum of the population. The reader is never patronised but included in the whole process of discovery.A great reference book for all, even those who work in the industry.

A lovely book that is well laid out and a pleasure to read. I have a couple of observations: (1) reference to grape seed oil as a preservative is not strictly correct; it is, rather, an antioxidant that slows down the rate of deterioration of oils. Recipes containing water (or hydrous ingredients such as aloe vera) will also need a preservative to prevent microbial growth. (2) it would have been better if the ingredients had been listed as percentages rather than as a mix of weight (gs), volume (mls) and teaspoons. This way iterations of the product might be more consistent. Nevertheless, the recipes look achievable and I look forward to trying them.

This book is really well presented; it is stylish and professional and immediately draws you in to read more. The content is excellent and gives details of numerous ingredients with explanations on why we use them. It gives recipes you can make yourself using just the basic equipment you have in your home. I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to create their own cosmetics!

Looks really good if your into handmade recipes. Will have a go at a few when I have more time but the book is a good way to learn about it all, if you just make them for yourself.

This is a great introduction to making your own cosmetics. So far I’ve made the beer shampoo and conditioning spray, and my hair is lovely and glossy! Looking forward to more experimenting

Very informative and some great recipes. The only negative is you require a lot of obscure ingredients that you can only source online, some of which only appear in one recipe. I prefer the Neals Yard beauty book which uses more easily accessible ingredients. It's still a great read though and well worth purchasing.

Looks a beautiful book. Cannot wait to delve into it. Good price too.

Beautifully laid out book with wonderful photos and interesting and easy to follow recipes for you to follow and make healthy skin friendly products for yourself and friends. Perfect little gifts and a really lovely new hobby. Very pleased with this book.

I am a beginner when it comes to herbalism and natural remedies. I wanted to get better at my natural beauty remedies.

Nothing “natural” about it. It requires many speciality ingredients (like some type of emulsifiers). Definitely not what one would expect from a homemade beauty products book that is sold as simple and easy recipes to make at home. You may as well be a chemist to make them?

At first I had a good impression about the book - nice structure, nice pictures, step by step instructions how to realize th recipes.BUT: after I started searching for the ingredients I discovered that some of them suggested in the recipes are not safe, such as Emulsifying Wax BP which is a composition of Cetearyl Alcohol and Sodium Lauryl Sulphate.. anyway I was looking for a book with the fundamental information about how to make the homemade natural skincare products, but found only the recipes with not truly safe ingredientsUp to you. I'm returning it back

Checked this out at my local library and had to have it for myself. Excellent skin care recipes. I am a collector of natural health books and this is one of the best.

Arrived quickly, was a gift, so not sure about how helpful yet. but all looked great.