How to make natural skincare products at home Organic moisturizers, masks, balms, polishes and exfoliants

How to Use This Book

Although this is structured like a basic recipe book, and indeed you can look up any recipe and make it just like a cookbook, this is also far more than a simple collection of recipes. This book will essentially provide you with a solid toolbelt from which you can formulate your own recipes without having a degree in science, dermatology, or cosmetology.

Each recipe is written for an average skin/hair type, but with a little perusing of the ingredients, you will quickly learn what you should plug into the recipes to make the products work for you. Many recipes include prompts that will give you clear directions to reformulate according to your skin type.

The first part introduces a variety of ingredients and is easy to reference. These ingredients have been summarized for convenience; if you choose to really get into skin care later, you’ll find that the scientific information available on each is incredible, but unfortunately I can’t cover all that here. (That would be an entirely different and very large book, so I leave that part up to you.)

Once we review the ingredients, you will find recipes starting with your hair and ending at your toenails—literally, head to toe. And once you’ve picked a few recipes to make at home that you enjoy, you can come back to check out how to package them to gift to others.

Let’s get started!