Product Description

Can t afford a week at a spa? Now you can recreate the same soothing spa atmosphere and pamper yourself from head to toe with the luxurious, yet easy-to-follow recipes in The Herbal Home Spa. Virtually every page is packed with recipes for all-natural personal care products that are healthier, less expensive, and often more effective than those pricey items in spas and salons. You ll also learn how to combine several recipes for an all-day spa treatment, or incorporate individual treatments into your daily, weekly, and monthly routines. These easy-to-make recipes include facial steams, scrubs, masks, and lip balms; massage oils, baths, rubs, and wraps; hand, nail, and foot treatments; and shampoos, dyes, and conditioners. Includes bathing rituals and massage techniques.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48013 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12-06
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .61" h x 6.10" w x 9.07" l, .68 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

From Booklist
Slices of cucumbers to refresh tired eyes, olive oil to restore hair, a lemon rinse to lighten hair color. By no means is natural body care alien to most people, yet many of herbalist Breedlove's more than 110 recipes, remedies, and ideas will enlighten and inspire. In fact, she provides some rather unusual alternatives for most if not all of the commercial skin, hair, and other care products. Need to darken hair? Try a mix of black walnut hulls, grape leaves, wine, and water. Corns a real annoyance? Bandage roasted garlic cloves around the offending toes. Suffering from itchiness due to poison ivy or dry skin? There's the cucumber pizza solution, slathering the entire body with this green vegetable. In addition to providing tons of tips about pampering, she also walks readers through the maze of herbs and natural ingredients, from acacia flowers to zinc oxide paste. A 101 course in soothing and relaxing. Barbara Jacobs

From the Back Cover
Now you can create sumptuous personal care products rivaling those found at exclusive spas and specialty shops with the easy-to-follow recipes found in this unique volume. Virtually every page is packed with one-of-a-kind recipes for pampering every part of your body, from head to toe, including: -- Gentle herbal shampoos, colorings, and conditioners -- Refreshing facial steams, scrubs, masks, and creams -- Invigorating massage oils and body wraps -- All-natural herbal hand, nail, and foot treatments -- Soothing treatments for tired eyes and crow's feet

About the Author
Herbal writer Greta Breedlove is the owner and instructor of Greta's Garden Herb School in East Chatham, New York, where she teaches herbal education, holds workshops, classes and apprenticeships, and also resides. She has received her education at Peace Theological Seminary, the University of Santa Monica and White Lotus Foundation, all of California, as well as attending the Green Terrestrial Herbal School and Cornell University in New York. In addition to writing the popular Storey title, The Herbal Home Spa, Greta has been an herbal instructor at several colleges, camps and garden clubs, like Berkshire Community College, Red Mill School, Hudson Valley Community College and the Bershire Botanical Gardens, to name just a few. She has also been the director of the Abode Herb Garden in New Lebanon, New York, where she managed all aspects of the business, including supervising staff, herbal education and programs.