A beautifully designed instructive guide to creating luxurious, safe and effective beauty products using ingredients from nature. In this charming book you'll discover how to prepare an abundant range of products using plants and flowers, many of which you'll be able to find around you or grow yourself. It includes comprehensive, easy-to-follow recipes for: - Rich moisturising cream with daisy extract- Camomile based shampoo for glossy hair- Sugar and honey body scrub- Ginger oil for blemish controlYou will find a wealth of other delights such as body butter, hair conditioner, lip balm, deodorant, bath oil and even toothpaste. Also included is a selection of fragrance products for your home, such as a lavender and pine room spray made with vodka.Each easy-to-follow recipe gives a complete description of the product-making process so you can't go wrong. There are handy visual guides to the plants you'll be using, accompanied by ravishing photography. Armed with this book you'll be able to create a whole beauty counter of products, both for yourself and for gifting, and you'll save money too!

Leoniek Bontje spent 4 years training to become a herbalist following the publication of her first book, Foraging. She has since authored books on using plants as medicine, creating a herbarium, and using plants for cosmetics. She currently works as a herbalist, teaches workshops, writes books about herbalism and offers advice on how to create edible and medicinal gardens. She lives in The Netherlands.

The benefits of making your own beauty productsPlants for your skinNatural basic ingredientsHydolatesOther basic ingredientsUsing food as beauty productsLooking after your faceMasksNourishing masksScrubsLooking after your eyesLooking after your lipsLooking after your mouthLooking after your hairHair conditionersHair masksLooking after your bodyDeodorantLooking after your handsLooking after your feet