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xvii, 218 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Treat yourself--your face, hands, hair, and lips--to vitamin-rich, toxin-free nourishment from nature. This book lists the qualities and uses of botanicals used in homemade beauty products, making it easy to customize your own lotions, creams, milks, body butters, face masks, lip balms, ointments, toners, and more. Use this inventory of botanicals and other ingredients to make informed choices about eco-friendly vegetable oils and butters, infused...
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256 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Combining personal recipes with DIY beauty secrets and food recipes from chefs, beauty editors, and celebrities, presents easy, all-natural, affordable, and effective recipes that harness the power of food to promote beauty from within.
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224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Could you use a little Lazy Perfection in Your Life? Every woman wants to look like the best version of herself-natural, radiant, and confident. But who has the time to master complicated makeup steps or the patience to sift through the glut of choices at the beauty counters? Celebrated makeup artist Jenny Patinkin cuts through the confusion and clutter with her "lazy perfection" approach to beauty, replacing complex techniques and hard-to-wear trends...
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xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Outlines a four-step program for youthful skin, improved health, and a positive outlook, in a guide that features recipes for homemade cleansers, masks, and scrubs; relaxation techniques for eliminating stress; diet guidelines; and wrinkle-minimizing facial exercises.
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374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A lighthearted skin-care guide denounces the practices of commercial products while revealing the secrets that have rendered her a successful Hollywood beauty expert, outlining a four-week plan for eliminating blemishes, losing weight, and minimizing wrinkles.
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xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"Glamour's "Beauty Sleuth" reveals tricks of the trade to help you look fabulously high-end -- in any economy. Andrea Pomerantz Lustig has spent twenty years as a beauty editor, and her contact list is packed with the names of the most exclusive stylists in the business.In How to Look Expensive, she combines her own experience with highly coveted secrets she's learned from the experts to help readers achieve buttery highlights, luminous skin, flawless...
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Beets, pumpkin seeds, mangoes--these are some of the best foods for fighting aging and keeping your skin beautiful. The nutrients in these foods--from vitamins A, B, and C to the minerals iron and zinc--act as powerful antioxidants, neutralizing the free radicals that form in your skin due to sun exposure, environmental toxins, and a poor diet. The entire body needs these antioxidants in order to work properly and retain a glowing, healthy appearance....
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287 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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"En Si nuestra piel hablara, el periodista y especialista en medicina preventiva, James Hamblin, pone sobre la mesa soluciones duraderas y científicas. Para llegar a ellas conversó con dermatólogos, microbiólogos, alergólogos, inmunólogos, esteticistas, entusiastas de los jabones de barra y hasta con estafadores, tratando de averiguar qué significa realmente estar limpio. Y descubrió que nuestras normas de limpieza están menos relacionadas...
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"Providing a cover for our delicate and intricate bodies, the skin is our largest and fastest-growing organ. We see it, touch it, and live in it every day. It is a habitat for a mesmerizingly complex world of micro-organisms and physical functions that are vital to our health and our survival. It is also a waste removal plant, a warning system for underlying disease, and a dynamic immune barrier to infection. One of the first things people see about...
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255 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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In this collection of more than 40 columns, New York Times beauty writer Bee Shapiro gets the world's most photographed people to share their most intimate rituals: daily skin care regimens, opinions on makeup, hair care, diet and exercise, and the way beauty has evolved for each person over the course of his or her life. Beauty -- unlike fashion -- is something almost anyone can participate in and still have stellar results: the moisturizer that...
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302 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Plant-Powered Beauty: The Essential Guide to Using Plant-Based Ingredients for Health, Wellness, and Personal Skincare is a long-awaited resource for those who are ready to harness the power of plant-based energy to maintain their natural beauty and promote health and well-being. At the heart of Plant-Powered Beauty, readers will find more than 50 easy-to-follow recipes to make their own plant-based skincare and beauty products, such as: Almond Milk...
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xii, 259 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Actress Cameron Diaz opens a conversation with her peers on a topic that that for too long has been taboo in our society: the aging female body. She shares the latest scientific research on how and why we age, synthesizing insights from top medical experts with her own thoughts, opinions, and experiences. The Longevity Book explores what history, biology, neuroscience, and the women's health movement can teach us about maintaining optimal health as...
34) The beauty of dirty skin: the surprising science to looking and feeling radiant from the inside out
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viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Every year, nearly 80 million Americans will consult their doctors about their skin. In fact, skin disorders beat out anxiety, depression, back pain, and diabetes as the number one reason Americans see their doctors. Unfortunately, however, the vast majority will receive only a surface-level treatment, leaving the underlying conditions at the root of their skin issues unresolved. Skin doesn't lie; it reflects overall health in unimaginable ways....
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280 pages ; 24 cm
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"The things we do every day to keep ourselves clean can have surprising and unintended effects, as this entertaining introduction to the new science of skin microbes and probiotics reveals Keeping skin healthy is a booming industry, and yet it seems like almost no one agrees on what actually works. What one person says is vital another says is toxic. We have not cured acne or eczema, allergies keep getting worse, and autoimmune conditions are becoming...
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