Recipes for Natural Beauty: 100 Homemade Treatments for Radiant Beauty
Recipes for Natural Beauty provides step-by-step instructions for making the most of nature’s bounty. Here, women will learn how to improve skin tone, erase wrinkles, and bring out healthy, shiny hair, all with homemade recipes using natural ingredients that can be found at the local supermarket. What’s more, these recipes cost a fraction of the price of commercial cosmetics.
Recipes for Natural Beauty is ideal for anyone who has allergies or very sensitive skin, or for anyone who prefers using pure and natural products. Ingredients such as avocados, cucumbers, lemons, honey, and oatmeal give women absolute control over what they use on their bodies.
At-a-glance charts detail the contents of each easy-to-prepare recipe and provide suggestions for alternative ingredients. This valuable reference also contains useful daily and weekly planners to help readers maintain their beauty regimen. From head to toe, Recipes for Natural Beauty will help any woman feel better about herself and the environment.
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| 50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:  Fabulous when I can find the ingredients., June 27, 1999 By A Customer This review is from: Recipes for Natural Beauty: 100 Homemade Treatments for Radiant Beauty (Paperback) The recipes for which I was able to find the ingredients: lotion, nail care cream, exfoliator were absolutely supreme–wonderful for my very dry skin. Some of the recipes call for tintures and flowers which I couldn’t find in my local health food store. It would have been helpful if the book had given Internet or mail-order sources for some of the ingredients. Instead, the recipes say to use the ingredient if you can find it–not much help–and they don’t say what to do it you can’t. But given my sucess with what I have so far I will continue to search out other ingredients. 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:  Helpful for a beginner, February 15, 2002 By A Customer This review is from: Recipes for Natural Beauty: 100 Homemade Treatments for Radiant Beauty (Paperback) I liked reading the recipes in this book. Many of the ingredients are not too difficult to find. The reason I only gave this book a 3 however is that it is not specific enough on storage. There is a little blurb on page 12 that talks about preferred message of storage. However, I wanted more specific details on storage and shelf life to be included with each recipe. This kind of thing is important for novices to know so they know how much of certain ingredients is "safe" to purchase at any given time. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful: Pretty Good Info, July 11, 2005 By Lilac Frost (The world) – See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: Recipes for Natural Beauty: 100 Homemade Treatments for Radiant Beauty (Paperback) The only reason I keep from making this a 5 star is that many of the recipes call for a base shampoo or base lotion, rather than giving ingredients all from scratch – and in the case of the lotions, they provide no alternative to lanolin (I’m vegetarian and have ethical issues using slaughterhouse by-products). But, apart from those minor tid-bits – the rest of the book is fabulous! Very detailed instructions on how to put everything together, as well as providing information on What parts of the ingredients act as a natural preservative. Also had some good info for the storing of items. All in all, I am very pleased with this book and cannot wait to try out some of the recipes. (I’d tried some recipes for natural hair care I’d found online, but was disappointed with the results – from the looks of the info in here I don’t think I will b e with these!) Another good thing about the book – is it makes it clear that these are guidelines, and you can experiment around with the amounts of ingredients as well as the ingredients themselves – so, with a little research I should be able to find a substitute for lanolin so I can make my own lotions. (Their recipe for a moisture bar is pretty awesome – and should work well in place of lotion anyway!) |
The Ageless Woman: Natural Health and Beauty After Forty with Maharishi Ayurveda
Inspiring, informative, and empowering, The Ageless Woman* weaves timeless wisdom and the latest medical discoveries into a unique, highly-effective anti-aging guide for women. Natural medicine expert, Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf, presents a highly-individualized, practical handbook, rich in health tips, weight-control strategies, and treasured beauty secrets from Maharishi Ayurveda, the complete system of natural medicine from the Vedic tradition of ancient India. With the insightful guidance of The Ageless Woman, every woman can grow in health, beauty, and fulfillment after forty.
*Formerly titled “A Woman’s Best Medicine for Menopause”
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| 16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:  Help is here!, March 24, 2003 By Judy Raymond (Jackson Hole, Wyoming) – See all my reviews This review is from: A Woman’s Best Medicine for Menopause: Your Personal Guide to Radiant Good Health Using Maharishi Ayurveda (Hardcover) For anyone who doesn’t want to take drugs for menopausal systems, or who wants to prepare to have a smooth menopause, PLEASE read this book! Just a few little changes in your life can make all the difference. Dr. Lonsdorf’s recommendations are so simple, natural and EFFECTIVE! They have made a huge difference in my life and I can’t recommend this book highly enough. Funnily enough, it was recommended to be by a man who utilized the fundamental principles to improve his health! 22 of 25 people found the following review helpful: A book for now and the next generation -avert the problems, July 31, 2002 By A Customer This review is from: A Woman’s Best Medicine for Menopause: Your Personal Guide to Radiant Good Health Using Maharishi Ayurveda (Hardcover) Dr. Nancy Lonsdorf’s book, A Woman’s Best Medicine for Menopause is a timely and profoundly satisfying resolution to the grave concerns raised today about prolonged use of hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Lonsdorf, M.D. contends that menopause can be experienced as a gentle and natural transition to a new fulfilling and healthy stage of life. A highly regarded Ayurvedic physician and medical director of the Raj, one of the premier Ayurvedic health centers in the United States, she has extensive clinic experience in the efficacy of one of the world’s original, time-tested, and most complete systems of medicine. Dr. Lonsdorf details a simple, sensible program for the prevention and relief of menopausal symptoms without ever having to take recourse to any potentially life-threatening drugs. Her logic is unassailable and the breadth of understanding she provides the reader can only restore now shaken confidence in our own intelligence and our inherent ability to make wise decisions about our health. First and foremost, this is a useful book, a highly readable and practical manual for our own best health care. The book is organized progressively giving us a sound basis of understanding at each step. Before we know it the principles and rules of healthful living become internalized and are so consonant with our own intuitive knowledge of how to live rightly, new life-promoting habits spring up in our daily routine spontaneously. The relevance of A Woman’s Best Medicine for Menopause extends beyond the age group suggested by its title. Dr. Lonsdorf advances a compelling and paradigm-shifting argument. The diseases associated with menopause, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease for example, are “primarily due to the cumulative effects of unhealthy lifestyle habits during our entire premenopausal lives and are only partially aggravated by shifting hormones during and after menopause”. This cognition begs the question, what are we doing to educate young girls about their health? The habits they cultivate now will determine the quality of their lives 50 years from now and, importantly, the health and happiness of the home environment when they begin to raise a family. Mothers and teachers and indeed everyone who cares about the next generations would do well to acquire this knowledge of balanced living for themselves and to impart it to the young. This is a most important book that must become a best seller, read and applied in every home, if we are to avert the inevitable consequences of the deplorable habits so prevalent today. |
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