Herbs For Beauty

Everyone wants to look good and feel good. However, not everyone of us is blessed with soft, creamy clear skin and sharp features. Mounting environmental pollution, growing worries and tensions of every day life make the skin vulnerable to the ravages of time. Even cosmetics fail to enhance a lifeless skin. This book makes a brilliant endeavor to help everyone look good and feel confident about him or her. The author seeks to explain and help the reader to understand their skin type and formulate a personalized exercise and beauty regime. The book throws light on the various facets of beauty and provides well-researched information on the different skin types, their problems and solutions, reasons for hair loss, nail and teeth problems and their care, etc. Parvesh Handa gives hundreds of recipes for every kind of beauty preparation- cleansing creams, face masks, conditioners for the hands, feet, neck and knees, washing scrubs, lotions and oils for bath and massage, skin tonics, anti wrinkle creams etc, - all based on fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices. The book states that by just using simple techniques, like facials, art of make-up, hair care, proper diet and exercises, you can tone yourself up towards a better and dignified you.

One of America's foremost herbalists provides concise, simple-to-understand, and practical information for using herbs for health and well-being. Each book contains profiles of specific herbs, cautions, contraindications, and easy-to-make recipes to relieve common ailments.

This book collects 100 ancient Chinese herbal recipes containing more than 140 herbs for natural beauty. These include imperial formulas used by emperors and empresses in ancient China, and secret time-tested formulas handed down in generations. These recipes have been used and proven effective for hundreds of years. They were designed by famous traditional Chinese medicine doctors, such as “the king of medicine†Simiao Sun. Many of these recipes have never been disclosed in the West as this is the first English translation of these valuable herbal recipes. Each recipe is explained with Chinese medicine and available scientific studies. Recipes for pampering every part of the body are included, such as shampoos, facial cleansers, moisturizers, lip balms, mouth rinses, bath soaps, and formulas for weight loss. Various skin and cosmetic problems are addressed, including hair loss, dandruff, wrinkles, freckles, acne, eye problems, cracked lips, cold sores, breath and body odors, and obesity.

Look great, smell wonderful, and feel good as you make your own homemade natural body care products. In this Storey BASICS® guide to holistic beauty, Rosemary Gladstar shares more than 30 simple recipes for cleansers, moisturizers, and creams comprised of essential oils and herbs. Make unique shampoos for lustrous, fragrant hair and learn Gladstar’s amazing five-step system for glowing skin. Skip the harsh commercial ingredients and use nature’s closet to keep your body healthy and beautiful.

The fact that natural herbal products have a definite qualitative edge over chemical-based cosmetics is now universally acknowledged. But then is every herbal beauty solution as effective as it claims to be?In fact, a lot depends on the extent of knowledge and research gone into its preparation. Here is one such work that brings you herbal solutions that work, and work beautifully.

Herbs can be used for beauty in original or compound form. They act against the internal impurities and external toxins of our body, add additional nutrients to it, make it glow and shine. Herbs provide natural, flawless treatment to our skin; nourish it from within, leading to its internal development. It combines the skills of specialists in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine and herbs. These are less likely to cause any damaging effect to health. These days a number of products that are using the herbal formulae have got lot of attention and have been witnessing a huge rise in demand not only nationally but on international arena. Bath and beauty products use herbs for both their scents and therapeutic qualities. Herbal products are replacing the synthetics products because of its harsh nature. Herbal products are in huge demand in the developed world for health care for the reason that they are efficient, safe and have lesser side effects. The formulations based on herbs are safe and effective. Drugs obtained from plant origin occupy important position in different pharmacopoeias. Products from natural sources are an integral part of human health care system because of major concern about synthetic drugs and their side effects and toxicity. The demand of herbal cosmetic products is high soaring in the world today. India has always been a rich producer of herbal products. The natural resources in the country are in abundance and have been a major source for the booming industry of herbal and cosmetic products. Some of the basic fundamentals of the book are herbal body care, herbal combinations for the bath, herbal perfumes, herbal perfumes flower based rose, herbal perfumes (special type), herbal toilet waters, lavender water, amber lavender, herbal toilet preparations, herbal skin care products, herbal treatments, herbal medicines, analysis of medicinal plants, manufacturers of standardized herbal extracts, phytochemicals and essential oils in India etc. This book contains the formula and manufacturing processes of herbal products. An attempt to blend ancient and modern science as well as art could be fruitful and such attempts must be carried out on sound scientific basis. The book is very resourceful for research scholars, technocrats, institutional libraries and entrepreneurs who want to enter into the field of manufacturing herbal beauty products.