If you are looking to improve your beauty treatments, and want to know exactly what is going onto your skin and body, this is a great reference book to add to your library. Plant-Powered Beauty is written by Amy Galper and Christina Daigneault and this will be the type of resource that can help you grow into your love for working with natural ingredients. The photography included in this book is stunning, and it gets you so excited to use the natural options that they introduce to us.

Ingredient Charts
One of the most helpful things in this book are the Beauty Ingredient Charts which include information on things such as; carrier oils, herbal infusions, butters, clays, exfoliants, herbs and spices and more. Each chart contains full 2 page spreads and tells you all the important information that you need to know. I am still in the beginning levels of making natural products, and the way that the information is presented is easy to understand and arranged in alphabetical order so a particular item is very easy to find. What I am even more excited about is that there is a lot of room to grow with this book, and as I progress in skill level I will still be using this as a go-to guide!

Beauty Tips
Another great feature of this book are special pull outs for a Beauty Tip! arranged throughout the book. These include tips for how to use products, suggestions on selecting the right ingredients, the benefits of the ingredients, and even historical references. Look for these tips shown off by pretty purple corner graphics. I have already learned so much just by reading these quick tips.

Recipes
Of course the highlight of the book is the section of recipes which include more that 50 plant-powered beauty options with easy to understand instructions. As I looked through the recipes I found a lot of variety in skill level and ingredients needed. So I looked for a good for recipe for me, which would use ingredients that I could easily get at my grocery store. I am already a huge fan of using essential oils, so when I found the recipe Fresh Anti-Inflammatory and Brightening Facial Mask and it needed just strawberries, honey and German chamomile essential oil I knew that I had found my first plant-powered beauty recipe to try. It took less that 5 minutes to make and it was so fun to put on. I am already getting started on the herbs I want to grow this summer, so I'll be including lavender, chamomile and mint so I can try out the recipe Fresh Herb and Flower Facial Steam (I can't wait!). There are recipes for so many beauty options; cleansers, masks, scrubs, moisturizers, lips balms, gels, even a makeup remover. I think I'll have a lot of fun in the upcoming months trying out these recipes.

This book is a great resource for anyone who wants to improve their beauty routine and feel confident about what exactly is being used in each and every recipe. I hope you enjoy this naturopathy resource for years to come.

I was unable to read this title on my kindle, sadly, so I am unable to provide a review because I didn't get to read it.

As someone with multiple allergies and sensitivities, navigating the aisles of skincare, cosmetics and other personal care products is really not easy, so this book appealed to the part of me that might consider making my own products. But I found that anyone on the multi-allergic or multi-sensitivities side would not be able to use many of the recipes in this collection, as most of them use essential oils and such, which is not surprising as both of the contributors are big on aromatherapy.

This is definitely not a book on how to use plant-based materials that you would commonly have around your home or kitchen, like oatmeal, sugar, honey etc. Making the items in this book will require some extra shopping, so you have to be pretty keen. I was a bit surprised at how much stuff went into producing some of the recipes. Much of it is not easily accessible in my part of the world for sure, and many of the ingredients, such as a wide variety of essential oils, some of the less common seed oils, various kinds of dried flowers, and blending ingredients including clays, salts, gums, butters and waxes would also not be easily purchased online to my locale. Plus, it would begin to get pretty expensive. But if you live in California or large cities or thereabouts, then I suspect you would have more access to suppliers.

The book is quite attractively produced, with nice photos, and quite a lot of information - maybe enough to start producing a whole skincare line if you were motivated enough.

I couldn't read all of this but it has a lot of information that can be usual especially if you are looking for a more natural beauty regime. It tells you about different types of ingredients and a variety of other usual information when it comes to beauty products.

Plant-Powered Beauty by Amy Galper; Christina Daigneault is a lovely and informative read that I will go back to again and again. Full of insightful information. I love the recipes in this book and have used many of them

WOW this book is thorough! I have some experience with making my own skincare, but even I was not aware at exactly how many carrier oils there were...seriously...if you ever wanted to know all the various natural things that can be used in skincare this is a good guide and one I want a hard copy of once it is in print. This book definitely focuses on the how to and ingredients than the specific recipes, which is fine by me since I would want this book as more of a reference than a 'cookbook' style book.

The pictures are beautiful and the instructions clear, this is such a good resource!

I've become more conscious of what is in the products I use, so was really excited to see a book showed a multitude of ways to use and create plant-based beauty products. Plant-Powered Beauty is extremely detailed and informative. Not only does it go into what each ingredient is and what they do, it also gives recipes for you to try at home.

Highly recommend for anyone who cares about the products they use and for those interested in discovering a possible new hobby.

'Plan Powered Beaty' is a perfect book for people who avoid artificial beauty products and want to lead a conscious lifestyle using what nature gave us. The book has over 50 DIY recipes that will help you create lots of beauty and wellness products which apart from being environmentally friendly are also vegan. I'm really looking forward to making my own beauty products!

A beautiful book which would inspire you to make your own beauty products. I liked the explanations as to why we should as well.

An absolutely beautiful, informative book. Can't wait to add a physical copy to my shelf.

I was at page 155/305 (according to Adobe Digital Editions) before I really got into this book. The first 155 pages are mostly spent explaining what different ingredients do. The charts are useful for those who want to move beyond the recipes and formulate their own products. If your focus is on following recipes? The first part of this book isn’t for you.

While the charts are useful for reference when DIY’ing it, I am not going to lie, it’s a pretty boring “Read”. I think of this book more of a reference book than something you’ll want to sit down and read from cover to cover. 

As for the the recipes, they range from almond milk to face cleaners to masks. There are a few recipes that include honey so while the book overall is plant based, there are a few recipes that won’t work for vegans.

A very useful book for those who want to diy their beauty products. For those focused on just wanting recipes, I’d probably skip this book and go with a different book.

What a helpful book! I came across this at the best time as I've recently been considering making my own cosmetics to have more control over what goes in them (and maybe save some money). The beginning half of the book instructs on how to read the ingredient lists of mass produced cosmetics and gives descriptions of the natural ingredients that can be used (oils, clays, infusions, etc) which is great for someone who isn't too familiar with natural cosmetics. The book also contains a list of must-haves and nice-to-haves regarding equipment - I was pleasantly surprised to find I have quite a few of the must-haves. The latter part of the book contains recipes to try. They are pretty straight forward and I've had good results with the face masks. I'll be branching out after a trip to our local natural foods store. The recipe index at the make is a great feature, making it easy to find exactly what you need. I highly suggest this book if you're looking for guidance on making your own body products.

Very intensive cookbook for making mainly plant-based skin care products for face and body, hair care products and other cosmetics.

The recipes are sometimes easy, but mostly pretty intricate, and sometimes even intimidating. This is for someone who is going all-in on making their own cosmetics, not really for the dabbler.

The thoroughness continues in the six pages of notes, very complete glossary, and resource list (for sourcing your ingredients).

Perfect for the person who makes homemade versions of everything!

This book is the end all, be all of personal beauty. Anything you want to know about essential oils, herbs, ingredients, lotions, and really anything that you put on your skin, is in this book. It's really an encyclopedia of knowledge and includes also great recipes for anything that you'd buy at Lush or a favorite beauty-seller. As a librarian I admit, it's a book that you first check out from the library, and then purchase for your home collection.