100 Organic Skincare Recipes: Make Your Own Fresh and Fabulous Organic Beauty Products

HER PRODUCTS WORK
I took the chance on this book because Jessica’s skincare products are SO amazing, so if she’s recommending recipes then they must be pretty good. I was right! These are so fun! It’s fun finding the ingredients. I haven’t had any issues so far except finding fresh rose petals! It might make me garden again. I’ve made the green tea eye cream and love it. It was super easy and I’m not typically good in the kitchen! I actually bought two copies of this. One I’ll be giving to a friend for Christmas. I even got ingredients for one recipe for her. It’ll make a great gift! I’ll be making more recipes with my family and friends. Love it when activities and books bring people together! I’ll keep buying her products too since they work so well!!! Her skincare plus her recipes for masks and “extra” goodies is a girl’s best friend!

Good book to fight stress or depression
I had a lot of fun with this book-enough to purchase after borrowing from the library. I hadn’t made skin care products before and the recipes were easy enough to follow. Most of the recipes I made (and I made a lot of them) turned out and I have gone back to making more of the same one when I ran out rather than searching for a new recipe from a different source. There is enough variety with several recipes covering each area: scrubs, toners, moisturizers, hair care products. . I’m surprised there weren’t any for making deodorant or toothpaste. There is a small section that explains the reason for choosing the specific ingredients which is always nice to know. There are quite a few different ingredients and I found myself hunting through health stores to find various ingredients. This was fun for me and helped with stress. I could see it driving someone crazy though. To complicate things, some of the recipes involve two steps. First you make an infusion and then when that is ready you incorporate it into the actual recipe. This turned out to be a whole lot of fun. I infused witch hazel (which I had never used before) with vanilla. Once I learned how to infuse I got busy and infused coconut oil with all the leftover tea that I had. Then that was used in the lip balm recipe (which is fantastic). This also inspired me to make my own extracts. The author touches briefly on skin care and blemishes emerging with cleansing. Perhaps more discussion regarding reactive healing would enhance this book. There was no guidance on making rose petal powder which is used in several recipes. I searched the net but didn’t really find much so eventually I baked the petals and then ran them through the coffee grinder ( a must have). There is a scrub recipe that is fantastic-but It involves turmeric and turned my pale skin yellow-like can’t scrub it off for two days yellow. Probably some skin tones benefit but it was horrid on mine. My tub was also dyed yellow and I had to use bleach to get it off. The scrub was so amazing I actually knowingly did it all over again. However if I were to make it I wouldn’t use the turmeric ( yes it’s great stuff but…). There is a pre tan scrub with citrus and my understanding is that sun exposure and citrus don’t go together. Several recipes involve comphrey which is not readily found in my area. Research on it revealed some controversy although for skin care is supposed to be ok. All in all this is a great book for someone who is willing to search for ingredients. I supplemented the recipes with my essential oils and learned a few new things that I can do with the roses,lavender and herbs that grow in the yard. I also learned a whole lot about the various ingredients that I have never previously used and was inspired to move further into tjHe world of making your own products.

A Good Place To Start
I just purchased this book and it’s great for a beginner [skincare crafter] like me. DIY recipes have always intrigued me, and overall this book is a good addition to my general DIY book collection. Tons of great choices for facial masks, bath concoctions, etc., however, I wish it’d have a few more recipes for facial and eye creams. The one and only eye recipe entitled “Eye Cream” is really not a cream at all, but a recipe made up of several oils. Same for the facial moisturizers on pages 28 and 29. While oils in skin care recipes are to be expected, I am not a fan of just oils. The Comfrey Infused Oil looks great, but it calls for fresh comfrey. I don’t have access to fresh comfrey and it does not specify of dried can be substituted. I am assuming so, but it would have been nice for the author to state so. Another issue is when referring to other recipes within the book (as in the case of recipes within recipes), the author only provides the chapter, rather than the page. It’s much faster to have the exact page than flipping through a chapter. Lastly, there is no Resource section. Still on the hunt for a better book. I have my eye on Shannon Buck’s upcoming book, soon to be released.

Excellent Instructions
I will say up front that I buy her products. The Jasmine face cream is now a staple. I wanted to try my hand at making some lip balms and such and this book is great. She gives complete recipes for predictable results. Not too oily, not too hard. Allows one to experiment with different oils and scents because it is not too far a leap from the given recipe. I highly recommend this book if you are looking to make gifts or try your hand at creative arts in lotions or perfumes.

To have fun with making recipes. All in drops though not percentages which would have been more accurate to work with.

I am always looking for new recipes for natural skin and body care products. This is a great new book with many original ideas for excellent quality products. I have tried some of them and have found, as I usually do, that not only is the quality superior, but the effects are often better than for commercial products which are loaded with chemicals. They are less costly to make as well. I also like that the shelf life and storage of the products are included in each recipe. Highly recommended.

I haven’t made any of the recipes but the book is well-laid out, enthusiastically described and has plenty of good clear photos.