100 organic skin care recipes _ make your own fresh and fabulous organic beauty products

Do you want to slather your lips with an edible Chocolate Lip Scrub? Lay in the bathtub and drift away on the clean scent of an Invigorating Ginger Citrus Body Wash? Wrap yourself in the luxury of a Glowing Goddess Face and Body Mask? Throughout 100 Organic Skincare Recipes, you’ll find amazing skincare products that will take your skin—and your mind, body, and spirit—to places they’ve never been before. Filled with all-natural ingredients like fresh herbs, flowers, honey, shea butter, or a unique essential oil blend (Appendix A), each recipe gives you the opportunity to mix up your own personalized batch of skin care that is free of the hazardous chemicals found in store-bought brands. Each ingredient has been chosen for its health and beauty benefits, detailed in the Glossary of Ingredients (Appendix C). Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions that teach you how to use oils, herbs, and other organic ingredients to create nourishing products for healthy skin. In Appendix B you will find facial care treatment plans to help you create a natural beauty routine that’s perfect for your unique skin type. These recipes—from the Layered Lavender Flower Water to the Lemon Poppy Seed Scrub—are inspired by the simple things in life that make you feel alive. The gorgeous flowers blooming in the garden. The fresh and tangy scent of fresh fruit. A softly scented breeze. Nature provides an amazing world full of divinely decadent and infinitely therapeutic ingredients for you to create these exquisite spa products. Each recipe is organic, natural, and chemical-free. Because why would you put something on your body that you wouldn’t put in it? Each one of these replenishing products is special and unique, and they are deceptively easy to create—which means they make impressive gifts for deceptively easy to create—which means they make impressive gifts for holidays, birthdays, or any other special occasion. You can make these skincare recipes in your own kitchen with the tools and ingredients you have on hand. Most of the ingredients can be found at the natural food store or farmer’s market. There are a few specialty ingredients or types of packaging that are easily found online with a quick Internet search. I formulate these gorgeous recipes with love. It’s simply what I do. I hope that shows. And I hope you will love discovering these creations as much as I enjoyed putting them together for you. I created space for you to add your personal touches with decorative packaging, layering scents, and dreaming up fabulous ways to plan an absolutely divine Home Spa Day. I humbly suggest that you make these recipes with focused healing intention and lots of love. Those two little things are my secret and favorite ingredients and I include them in all of my recipes. May your skin glow like the petals of a flower and smell as sweet …