Good Gifts from the Home: Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries
Make Beautiful Gifts to Give (or Keep)

by: Kelly Reno

BK3075 - $14.95
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Vanilla Body Lotion, Herbal Tea Bath, Floral Facial Cleanser, Mint Lip Gloss—these are just a few of the natural beauty, bath, and moisturizing luxuries you can make at home with the easy-to-follow recipes in this book.
Turn these pages and learn how to create natural, wonderfully fragrant, handmade oils and lotions to soothe dry skin and delight the senses. You will also discover the secrets to making airy dusting powders, silky oils, invigorating mud masks, and more, using nothing but safe, healthful ingredients.
A handmade gift is the ultimate expression of friendship and love—especially when that gift is something soothing and luxurious. This inspiring book offers easy recipes for silky lotions, extravagant oils, and fragrant skin care products you can make at home, including:
·peach and berry gardener's hand cream
·super light honeydew moisturizer
·five-oil massage blend
·herbs and fruit dusting powder
·rose bath beads
·tingling mint toner
·and many more sumptuous indulgences for the body and the senses!
Whatever the occasion, the recipes in Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries solve the eternal question of what to give when you want your gifts to be exceptional. Focusing special attention on the art of presentation, author Kelly Reno also includes many simple yet elegant ideas for bottling, boxing, and wrapping these wonderfully unique and personal gifts. You can find most of the ingredients at local markets and pharmacies. For hard-to-find ingredients, mail-order sources are conveniently listed.
Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries makes it possible—and easy—to pamper your friends, your family, and yourself with personal, handmade, aromatic, and sensuous body products anytime!

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Aromatherapy

by David Schiller & Carol Schiller

BK3000 - $9.95
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Beautify yourself and balance your body and mood with the power of essential oils. Blend them to make enjoyable and effective products with over 540 formulas for everything from skin moisturizers to plant insect sprays. Rejuvenate yourself with a footbath, repel fleas and ticks from pets with a shampoo, encourage conversation by diffusing scents into the air, massage away aches and pains, give wood a fine shine with furniture polish, soothe a baby's bottom with power and more! 510 pages. 4"x5-1/4" paperbound.

Natural Perfumes; Simple, Sensual, Personal Aromatherapy Recipes

BK3227 - $12.95
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Natural Perfumes Simple Aromatherapy Recipes Mindy Green Perfumes awaken the soul, heal the heart, and evoke a world where we are at one with the flowers. Natural Perfumes: Simple Aromatherapy Recipes contains all you need to know to blend your own perfumes, bath and massage oils, room spritzes and other scented products for body and home. Aroma therapist Mindy Green coaches you through your first blending lesson, then explains how to best age and preserve your scented products. With four charts, step-by-step blending lessons, the properties of 40 essential oils and 30 recipes for combining them to achieve memorable results. 6 x 7 1/4, paperbound, 96 pages, color photos throughout.

Oils, Essences & Creams

by Joanne Rippin

BK2377 - $9.95
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"Smooth away the stresses of modern life with this collection of bathroom and beauty preparations and pamper yourself, or your friends, with lotions, potions, perfumes, oils and essences, all made with natural ingredients. Cleanse your face and body with a delicate Rose Cream Cleanser or Marigold and Sunflower Soap, use a Papaya Face Pack or Oatmeal Washing Grains for weekly deep clean, and treat your skin to a Citrus Body Scrub for an invigorating exfoliation. Shampoos, hair conditioners and rinses, skin tonics and moisturizers complete your beauty program, while a whole chapter on salts, oils and essences for the bath will make your bathroom a haven of calm and pleasure while you pamper your body, refresh your spirits, ease your mind and invigorate your soul. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photography, this book offers a wealth of ideas to utilize nature’s abundant gifts to produce exquisite items that can be presented to a special person or kept for yourself. Oils, Essences & Creams will be a constant source of pleasurable pampering and sweetly scented inspirations for every kind of individual." Paperback. 9"x10-1/2". 64 pages.