I enjoyed this book, as I've always been interested in aromatherapy and in making homemade beauty products. This is a great guide to use to make your own products, or be more educated when purchasing store products. I'm especially excited about the body butters. Those looked so sumptuous!

Great book with really clean and effective recipes. I love knowing what goes into the products I use and this way, I actually pick all of the ingredients myself. Excellent book for anyone needing a comprehensive book of everything you need to know about making your own beauty products.

This book was very fascinating and it definitely teaches readers about natural beauty and skincare. While the writing is good, it is probably not a book for beginners as there are a lot of ingredients and recipes that most people would not attempt to make. I did love how many recipes were included however and they tied together the learning at the beginning of the book well.

I received a ARC of this book for review . My opinion is my own.
I have been using natural homemade skin care for many years with natural ingredients. I was thrilled to receive this book for review but found it does not transfer well to PDF and I was unable to read most of it. What I was able to read was informative and helpful . I appreciate the information on the various carrier oils and how to incorporate low price ingredients into our home beauty products.
Once you begin making your own products you will never go back to using chemical based drugstore products. This is a great guide for a beginner as well as someone like me that has been making their own face products. i found it well researched and full of useful information as well as recipes.
I do recommend buying this book as it does not transfer well to PDF and does not work on Kindle. It is a book to keep in your personal library so you may refer to the recipes .

If you love a higher end beauty regime, cooking and are nerdy enough to enjoy an indepth exploration of the why as well as the how, Plant-Powered Beauty is amazing! I was excited that this wasn't just an introductory book with simple avocado facial masks but a book with advanced methods and recipes that require reading, planning and are definitely not cheap to make but are more affordable than some of the commercial versions of what the book offers.


I received the book through Netgalley and don't love this style of book in a digital edition because I did find myself having to click back and forth to read the reference tables on ingredients. Based on this and because of the reference nature of the book I would recommend the physical edition because the book is amazing but suited more to a physical copy.

Great book There's a lot of recipes for skin, hair, and body using natural ingredients. The authors have really done their homework. The recipes look easy to do. All the things you need including tools are listed. I think it's a wonderful look for all those who want a natural, fresh beauty regimen. I received this book from Net Galley for an honest review and no compensation otherwise.

Plant-Powered Beauty is a beautiful book. It's aesthetically pleasing like every Pinterest board you follow, every Instagram you wish was yours. However, unlike Pinterest and Instagram, Plant-Powered Beauty is jam packed with interesting and verified information. Their list of sources is long and strong, and their recipes tried and true.

The introduction to their book alone taught me more than I ever thought I needed to know about reading beauty labels. Once inside, I focused most of my intentions on the synergy oil recipes, because they were so methodical in their translation. I feel truly empowered by this book to make my own oil synergies and experiment with topical skin care potions and serums. I'm a total dummy when it comes to DIY, so their charts and step-by-steps made it so easy to believe I can do this on my own.

Plant-Powered Beauty by Galper and Daigneault is your handbook to beautiful skin without the harsh chemicals and byproducts you may find in drugstores and expensive makeup shops. This book teaches you how to make your own masks, serums, cleansers, moisturizers, and much more using the powerful benefits of natural ingredients. Best of all, you can do it yourself from home!

Included are over 50 recipes for you to try that are for your skin, hair and scalp! It is also a great resource guide to essential oils. Especially if you are a newbie like me, who doesn't know the benefits of each type of oil. Along with beautiful photos and detailed instructions, this is the perfect handbook for all your natural skincare needs.

This book gave a lot of detailed information and helpful hints as well as how to do information. I loved the thoroughness.

There are a lot of people out there who are doing research into what all consumers consume at any given time. It is for those people who make a conscious effort to keep an eye on what goes into the products on their shelf.This book is like that big encyclopedia that used to be an investment (at least that was the case at my home) which was to be brought down from the shelf to give a detailed answer to what we wanted to know before Google came. This is a very extensive book. It has possibly all the information one would ever need to curate completely natural and homemade beauty products. By beauty products, I do not mean makeup but cleaning, cleaning and probably cheering as well. It looks like a very involved process to get the end results and I would assume someone with a strong will, and a big kitchen, time and interest would devour the book.

It is a very well presented book of all the exhaustive information(with some very nice pictures) we could ever want in terms of plant powered products.I really enjoyed the content, and maybe, just maybe I can rouse myself to try out a couple of the recipes.

I am always searching for more ways that I can use healthy and natural items around my house, so when I saw this book on NetGalley I thought it could be helpful.  Thank you NetGalley for giving me a copy of this book.

At 256 pages this book was a fairly quick read.  It was easy to follow along with, and I definitely learned some things. I'll be looking closer at the products that I buy from now on because of this book. 

I don't think that I will be able to use any of the recipes in this book for awhile. Like a lot of books that you read when wanting to go organic and all natural, this book seems to be written for stable middle class to rich people.  I would have to buy so many ingredients to be able to make the products in this book, and that's just not feasible for a young couple with one person in grad school and the other working as a freelancer.  So that of course disappointed me. I wanted a book that would be a little more accessible. 

So in the end I gave this book 3 stars, I do think it could be helpful for me in the future. And maybe it could be a helpful book for you!

The first half of this book really lay out terminology and what all the various words on products mean. It de-mystifies the list of ingredients on the back label. They discuss the differences in processing plants (cold-pressed, enfleurage) and even goes in depth about the layers of your skin, what they do, and what you may wish to achieve by making your own beauty products. Their essential oil section is inspired. They go through what part of the plant is used for normal oil production, method of extraction, and therapeutic actions. They cover similar categories for wax, butters, clays, exfoliants, oils, etc. Pretty much a dictionary for anything you’d want to put into your products (that’s natural).

The second half of this book is the recipes. It covers cleansers, masks, scrubs, moisturizers, and treatments. It is a really fun and inspired book that really gives all the information about questions I’ve asked, and then even delves into questions I never thought to ask. The recipes are fun, but I will say this is an educational read and I may never even get into the making! But a fun read.

Having dabbled in the art of making salves and skin care products since my childhood, learning about herbs and essential oils at my grandmother's kitchen table, I was sceptical when I opened this book.

Then I was surprised at the detailed information the book contains. From learning about what the label of your store bought beauty product contains, to what properties a wide range of natural ingredients have, to which ingredients and materials to use in your own, home made beauty products, and how to avoid germ contamination in your kitchen.

This book introduces the art of making your own skin care products to the novice "kitchen apothecary", as well as contains information for experienced crafters in this field.

Wow! The pictures are beautiful and the ideas are delightful. There are major details about plant-powered beauty in this book. Whatever you want to know, need to know and didn't know you need to know about the subject is included. It is a perfect guide! You will learn so much and have many options of what you want to do or make. Tips are helpful and everything in this book is useful.

I've read a few all-natural beauty books and this is one of the best so far. I like how it explains "How the skin works" since that's not something we think of in general. It's not an overall science-y book (yay!) and breaks down how to take care of different skin types (I focused on the dry, aging, and mature skin type) and the difference in extraction of plants. This is a great resource book that I'd need to revisit on occasion since it has so much information!

If anyone is looking for a book that is a simple, comprehensible guideline about natural ingredients for your body and health, this is what you should add to your collection! This book is perfect for any beginners wanting to get into natural and organic health products. There are recipes, tips, and guidelines about products most people don't think twice about when buying certain products. I love how precise the information is and I would recommend this to anyone wanting to make better choices in cosmetics. I will be adding this to my collection!

I love how they expose ingredient lists on everyday products. Our skin and overall health is so important and I'm glad that people are banding together to make healthier decisions. #Imhereforit

Thank you NetGalley and BenBella Books for letting me read this book! ♥♥

Plant-Powered Luxury:

Have you ever been pampered in a natural beauty spa, enveloped by the beautiful scents of carefully selected essential oil blends? This is what you can recreate in your home by using the recipes in this book. I have been interested in aromatherapy and making my own skin care products for over 30 years and I can say that this book is a gem. The authors use only the best ingredients in their formulations that turn out very luxurious products. For example, yesterday I made the Moisturizing Body Oil for Super Dry Skin and it feels and smells fabulous. I applied the oil after a shower this morning and it absorbed into the skin quickly and smelled amazing. Now, after a whole day, my skin still feels silky soft. All recipes are listed by volume (tablespoons, teaspoons, drops), which makes measuring very easy. There is really no need to measure more precisely. Do not believe you cannot afford all the fancy ingredients used in this book. It is not a big deal to start out with a few high quality ingredients and build from there. Also,if you do not have a particular ingredient at hand, the informational ingredient charts make it easy to switch out ingredients that have similar properties. I am happy I found a couple of oils and botanical ingredients that I have not tried yet and cannot wait to use them in my own body products. I also like that the authors recommend to the readers to use their own intuition and come up with their own recipes. Amy Galper and Christina Daigneault truly are experts in their field who have put a lot of thought into their formulations. For me, there is something deeply satisfying about making my own beauty products. I like this book so much that I bought the kindle version of it although I have already received a free electronic copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. In my opinion this book deserves 10 stars. Go and buy this book! You will not regret it!

Incredibly detailed and very helpful! Well formulated recipes, focused on sanitation and proper use, and gave a lot of very informative charts on ingredients. For a person who suffers from side effects to chemicals from pretty much every beauty products ,like myself, this book is a little treasure.

This book is gorgeous from front to back. I love the idea of natural beauty-actually being natural. I get excited starting off that I may actually be able to change my routine with new products that I made from scratch. To be honest, I love the idea of all of that and that it will make me a better person. In reality, this is a life style change. I am not ready for that type of commitment nor do I think this change would be sustainable.

I came to this realization after spending weeks with this book. These recipes are intricate and intimidating, I even put this down for a couple days and came back to it hoping for a fresh perspective. I am a newbie, excited to learn and grow with natural beauty that will be sustainable in my lifestyle. This book is not for me. This book is more for the experienced that want to take it to the next level. That is the only reason I give it three stars.
I was given an ARC of this book through NetGalley and the publishers for an honest review.

This is positively lovely- chock full of information about skincare, how it works, what goes into it and most importantly, how to make your own. I already have an interest in medicinal herbs so this was a beautiful addition to my collection and introduced me to some deeper thinking, particularly about essential oils, blends and the effect of certain ingredients on the skin. Perfect for anyone with even a mild interest in this area!