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Good Clean Beauty

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"My wish did come true!!!! Thank you."

Good Clean Beauty; Create over 75 Super Simple Beauty and Skin Recipes from Common Kitchen Pantry Ingredients by Caroline Bercaw and Isabel Bercaw are teenagers and sisters. This book was a real big eye opener.

"How many of us have spent a small fortune on our beauty products over the years, only to find that we can make them from products we have or may have in our kitchen pantry!
Plus, the excellent thing is - its all natural. You know what's in it when you make it your self and None of these long words for ingredients you can not say. This book is very colourful and illustrated throughout. Plus, very easy to follow. Plus, it's Fun!"

This has 75 brilliant simple beauty, make up and skin care recipes made from things you have in your kitchen pantry.
Caroline and Isabel have created simple, lovely, natural and safe products for our daily beauty regime, especially if we have allergies or sensitive skin and best of all its not tested on animals and you made it!

You will find this great book divided into two parts - Make up and every girl loves make up and skin care for all ages. You will learn how to create:
✲ Luxurious scrubs,
✲ Very effective exfoliators,
✲ Revitalising face masks,
✲ Long-lasting foundation,
✲ Bright eye shadows,
✲ Shiny lip glosses,
✲ Soothing lotions and so much more.......

It also includes a lovely section on: how to apply make-up correctly, How to apply foundation, your blush, lippy and your eye shadow's etc - which is great if you have just started experimenting with make up. "No one wants to look like a clown when the first start to experiment with this."

Everything that is in this book will have a lovely and full explanation on its use and how to apply it. With all its ingredients listed, with the healing and therapeutic properties of each ingredients, such as charcoal, arrowroot powder, and nutmeg, are broken down and reviewed. This saves us time because its all done for us. All you need to do it make it.

This book will be great for anyone and especially perfect for teenagers it will be great for sleepover activities with your friends. Homemade gifts for your friends and family, etc or creative projects for yourself,

Its Fun!

Big thank you to Rock Point the publisher and Netgalley for my wish to be granted for me to read and review this wonderful book. I loved it.

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This is a really cool book for those looking to save some money or are being conscious about the chemicals in beauty products now. It has a huge amount of recipes to make your own versions of many different beauty products from sea salt spray for your hair to any possible type of face mask you would need. Perfect gift for the eco-warrior in your life.

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I received a copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This book sounded so good but unfortunately each time I downloaded my advanced reader copy of it it showed me everything except the ingredients needed to make the beauty products on each page so I'm unable to leave a proper review.

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I had a book like this as a teenager and I absolutely loved it - I've been trying to find a good replacement and I finally have! This book is jam packed with recipes for all varieties of needs. Some of the recipes had too many ingredients for my liking but they can be easily tweaked and there are plenty of recipes I found to be reasonable. I enjoyed the illustrations and overall look of the book as well and would consider buying this for a gift.

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This is a great book to instruct you on creating your own clean make-up. The authors cover everything from eye shadow to body care. The instructions are easy to follow and I appreciate when pictures are included. Those I wish there were a few more like a palate picture so I truly understand what my colors are suppose to look like.
Over all this is a great book for good, clean beauty.

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I’ve been wanting to reduce my impact negative on the environment recently and have started making small changes, and this book helps massively with this! There are so many recipes for more things than I expected and I think the books as awhile is so useful and important.

I can’t wait to make more things with friends and have an eco beauty party!

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I really enjoyed this book and I loved the large variety of recipes. I feel this is a great book to have in your collection if you are interested in DIY beauty and skin care. This book has very detailed instructions and a list the natural materials used in each recipe.

Then recipes include moisturizers, face masks, and makeup. There is a good variety of recipes to try. This is a fun book with beautiful photos. However, unfortunately none show pictures of the product on natural skin.

I also could not find any info on proper storage or shelf life of the recipes so I am lowering my rating simply because I feel this is critical information for home made beauty products. With the addition of the information on storage and shelf life, and info on safety or precautions for the ingredients I would give this book a five (5).

I have many books on the subject and that information has always been included. Most other books require refrigeration or making new product often. But otherwise I love the book and enjoyed the variety of recipes. I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

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Many of the recipes and ingredients are things your grandmother or great-grandmother would have known and used. They've been updated for today with items not easily found then, such as essential oils, colored powders, and good packaging.

What you'll find in this book are great ideas for everything from make-up to deodorant in easy recipes. Although I find myself wondering at the stability of some of the products, I love that this great wisdom is being passed on.

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"Good Clean Beauty" is a great book if you are interested in DIY beauty and skin care. This book describes in detail the natural materials used and what they are best suited for. Then recipes follow for serums, moisturizers, face masks, and makeup. There are so many great and seemingly simple recipes to try. I run maker programs at my library and I will definitely try these out in a program in the future. This would be a great addition to an adult or teen collection. Very fun with beautiful photos!

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

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This book is a great recipe guide for homemade beauty products. It's one I'll return to again and again.

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Wow. It's hard to know where to start with the issues with this book that sounds good in principle but comes up pretty short. The premise is that two young sisters (now 17 and 19) who says they created a multi-million dollar company out of selling homemade beauty products as young teenagers have assembled 75 recipes for homemade makeup, hair products, masks and other beauty treatments. That sounds great and I was happy to get a digital ARC to review. But...

Some of my concerns:

1. The authors never once discuss the safety of these products. There's not even commonsense information like how long they last, how to store them, and how to know if they go bad. Most people who have ever made homemade beauty products know that you often have to store them in the fridge, make very small amounts, etc. because they tend to spoil easily but there's no talk at all about this issue. If you're putting a homemade eyeliner right next to your eyes, this is pretty important information.

2. You have to buy a variety of ingredients that add up in cost to make most of the products, so unless you're going into business you should expect to spend more than if you just bought these products off etsy or from some small scale trendy supplier.

3. The recipes are all pretty standard ones you can find for free on the net. For example, the mascara is basically this one: https://natural-alternative-therapies... (same ingredients, slightly different measurements and instructions).

4. There are lots of some kinds of recipes, like a ton of eye shadows (mostly just loose powders colored with various colors of mica powders and then lots of other ingredients) but no lipsticks, for instance.

5. There are no pictures AT ALL of any of these products being used by a human being. There are colorful photos of the powders spread on a table next to cutesy objects like plastic Eiffel towers, but there aren't even very many photos that actually show you what the product is supposed to look like in a container, much less how it will look on your face. When I looked up recipes for natural eyeliner and mascara that used similar recipes, the comments were full of people who said it went on badly, ran down their faces, didn't perform well, clumped, etc. If you want to convince me that this is a good recipe for an eyeliner or mascara, show me what it looks like on someone's eyes.

6. I would be really concerned about putting things like this near my eyes. Coconut oil always burns my eyes, for instance, even though it's an ingredient in most of the eye recipes, and considering how abrasive charcoal powder is, I don't think I want that in my eyeliner or mascara.

7. An internet search gave more information on the sisters, whose business is colorful fizzy bath bombs. It does look like they have an impressive business selling these, but that does not make them experts in providing safe and healthy natural makeup.

Sorry, but this isn't one I'll be recommending.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

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Good Clean Beauty by Caroline Bercaw, Isabel Bercaw is a valuable tool for any woman who enjoys makeup, beauty products, and wants to stay away from non-natural chemicals. This book is packed with tons of information from ingredients and their benefits to the different types of supplies and equipment that can be used to make your own healthy products! The book includes recipes for hair products such as hair spray, conditioner, dry shampoo,. It includes products for your body like sunscreen, body wash and deodorant. My favorite section was the makeup where they had recipes for pressed powder, primer, and lots of different eye shadows. They included skincare recipes for brightener, spot treatments, and dry skin cream. Each recipe comes with a list of needed ingredients and step by step instructions. I love this book. This would make a lovely gift for any girl, young or mature!

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