I picked up this book after seeing the television show that it accompanies. I was hugely impressed when I received it as it bursting with gorgeous photographs and wonderful ideas of things to try making using very easy to source supplies. I would definitely recommend it to anyone and everyone looking for an natural alternative or someone who would love to just have a go at there own beauty products. Just picked this up yesterday and poured through it. It's hard not to when each page-spread is peppered with lovely color photographs. The recipes are great and use a lot of common, easily grown or found ingredients. I already made one recipe (the athlete's foot powder) just from stuff in my kitchen. It has a UK resource section for the "must purchase" items, which is helpful to me, personally... though in the US you could easily find most of these items at health-food coops.The only critical thing I can say is that it doesn't actually give you tips on growing the plants. It has a list of the top ten that you could grow. It tells you what kind of soil the plants like and where to find them/harvest them in the wild... but it doesn't actually help you to "grow" them.I still think it's a great book (think a more accessible, simpler version of Rosemary Gladstar's Family Herbal) with eye-candy pictures.
Yes, 3 cups of vodka probably WILL cure what ails you... Really neat.
—Sednareinedeseaux
Full of amazing natural remedies for everything under the sun!
—Yessilupe
Pretty fun book. Gotta try out some of the "recipes" though!
—nicole
