Books on Making Your Own Body Lotion

Finding Books on Making Your Own Body Lotion

Organic Body Care Recipes: 150 Homemade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self

By Stephanie Tourles

This book is loaded with herbal know how and recipes for herbal body care products that you can make in your own kitchen. It is an excellent introduction to the world of organic, handcrafted cosmetics. Even beginners will find the step-by-step instructions easy to follow.

Stephanie Tourles presents her herbal formulas and how-tos recipe-style, along with a description of the skin type that each one is best suited for. Her book also features informative descriptions of the properties and benefits of the herbs, herbal oils and other natural ingredients used in the recipes she gives.

• Publisher: Storey Books
• ISBN-13: 9781580176767
• Pub. Date: June 2007
• Available at Barnes & Noble

Making Aromatherapy Creams and Lotions: 101 Natural Formulas to Revitalize and Nourish Your Skin

By Donna Maria

In this book, Donna Maria provides numerous formulas for using aromatic oils to create your own homemade skin-care products. She outlines a simple five-step technique for specially blending both common and exotic essential oils into natural, nourishing lotions and creams. She gives a number of tips for general beauty care and for specific skin conditions.

• Publisher: Storey Books
• Pub. Date: June 2000
• ISBN-13: 9781580172417
• Available at Barnes & Noble

The Herbal Body Book: A Natural Approach to Healthier Hair, Skin, and Nails

By Stephanie Tourles

This is the first book in the highly successful 'Herbal Body Series.' It offers a natural approach to creating your own herbal cosmetics and treatments. The book is filled with simple, useful recipes for personal care concoctions that you can make from herbs, grains and fruit. Each recipe includes instructions on skin type and prep time

Stephanie Tourles also provides several creative packaging ideas for using your herbal creations as gift items. She includes a glossary of the specialized terms that are used in the book as well.

• Publisher: Storey Books
• Pub. Date: January 1994
• ISBN-13: 9780882668802
• Available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com

Natural Beauty Recipe Book: How to Make Your Own Organic Cosmetics and Beauty Products

By Gill Farrer-Halls

Botanical beauty treatments are the focus of this unique book. It is chock-full of recipes, tips and projects for creating your own organic products and treatments using common ingredients from your own garden, the grocery store, a farmer's market or even in nearby fields. Gill Farrer-Halls presents straightforward, step-by-step recipes for creating lovely, yet practical cosmetic products.

A whole chapter is dedicated to creative gift-wrapping and storing your creations, and offers great ideas for using your organic creations as gifts for family and friends.

• Publisher: Rockport Publishers
• Pub. Date: September 2006
• ISBN-13: 9781592532988
• Available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com

Natural Beauty Basics: Create Your Own Cosmetics and Body Care Products

By Dorie Byers

In this book, Dorie Byers offers a highly informative guide to handcrafting your own all-natural alternatives to commercial beauty care products. It an easy read, yet packed with recipes and formulas for every skin type.

Her book features useful profiles of herbs and other natural ingredients, along with a wealth of information on their health and beauty benefits. This makes it easy to make substitutions if you want to customize her recipes to your own needs, and create body care products that are tailored to your skin type. A glossary of terms provides additional information.

• Publisher: Vital Health Publishing
• Pub. Date: May 2001
• ISBN-13: 9781890612191
• Available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com

A Final Word

Take your pick from any of these books on making your own body lotion, and discover how easy it is to create body lotions and other skin care products from ingredients in your own kitchen and backyard. They are hardly the final word in the art and craft of making your own body lotions, but they are a great place to start..