And when you need some extra-special pampering, there are recipes for lip balms, massage bars, bath oils and eye gels. For the face, there are moisturisers, face masks and cleansers for the body there are scrubs and shower gels, soaps and body lotions. Karen shows you how to make your own beauty products in your kitchen at home, using easy-to-obtain, natural ingredients and easy-to-follow methods. It includes a chapter on getting started and then projects falling into three categories: ‘for the face’, ‘for the body’ and ‘bath and shower’. The book is fab with 35 recipe projects, 144 pages and 200 colour photos. Stuart is a fantastic food photographer and regularly works for clients including Waitrose, John Lewis, Costa Coffee, Delicious Magazine and many more.Īll the photos above are shown courtesy of CICO Books – check out all of their craft books on their website. The photos below are mine that I took for this post. We also spent a few days in different beautiful locations photographing the finished projects in charming surroundings and it was great to style the book from cover to cover. If you have a moment pop by Karen’s website. A Green Guide to Natural Beauty was published in August and is her first book. She originally trained as a make-up artist and cosmetic scientist at The London College of Fashion and went on to work as a fragrance evaluator for one of the world’s largest perfume manufacturers. After many years she decided to pursue her lifelong passion for natural health and beauty by training in aromatherapy and joining the product development team at Neal’s Yard Remedies, helping to create many of their award-winning products. Karen is a natural skincare and fragrance expert and runs artisan perfumery and natural beauty workshops. In most cases it’s actually easier – if you can make a sauce, you can make a lotion” As Karen says: “making your own beauty products is so simple once you know how – it really is no different to cooking. Many require no heat, but for the ones that do you simply follow the steps like a recipe and it is just like cooking, but you end up with beauty products at a fraction of the price of the high street. There are so many projects in the book that I would definitely make myself, even as a total beauty product-making novice. I had the pleasure of styling all of the images in this book earlier this year to help create the look for it, working with the wonderful photographer Stuart West in his studio. It was a really fun and informative few days and with Karen making the projects in front of us, it was like receiving our own private tutorials. It contains 35 step-by-step projects for homemade beauty and if you love making then this is a great book to add to your collection. I’m very excited today to bring you my first book giveaway courtesy of CICO Books! This is the new book by Karen Gilbert and is called A Green Guide to Natural Beauty. Natural beauty : book review and giveaway
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