Natural Beauty

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound...

Hair is not simply a biological feature; it's a canvas for expression. Yet, its significance extends beyond mere aesthetics. Hair can carry profound moral, spiritual, and cultural connotations, serving as a reflection of one's beliefs, heritage, and even political stance. In Natural, Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson delves into the complex world surrounding Black women's hair, and offers a firsthand look into the kitchens, beauty shops, conventions, and blogs that make up the twenty-first century natural hair movement, the latest evolution in Black beauty politics.

In this book I will show you all natural ways how to maintain youthful, glowing skin. Have you been concerned about hair loss or dry feeling your hair has? Filled with all natural ingredients like essential oils, honey, brown sugar, fresh herbs and flowers, this Natural Hair Care and Skin Care Guide will help you discover how truly easy is to create your own all-natural alternative beauty products and fix your most annoying beauty problems at home!

The Complete Women’s Guide to Peptides is your practical, step-by-step audiobook to transform your health, energy, and confidence in just weeks. You don’t need a PhD, a huge budget, or a science background to start. This audiobook is designed for curious beginners, wellness professionals, and self-experimenters alike.

Look great, smell wonderful, and feel good as you make your own homemade natural body care products. In this Storey BASICS® guide to holistic beauty, Rosemary Gladstar shares more than 30 simple recipes for cleansers, moisturizers, and creams comprised of essential oils and herbs. Make unique shampoos for lustrous, fragrant hair and learn Gladstar’s amazing five-step system for glowing skin. Skip the harsh commercial ingredients and use nature’s closet to keep your body healthy and beautiful.

Natural Beauty Reset is the essential guide for women to restore radiance and hormonal harmony from the inside out. In this book, USA Today best-selling author of Clean Skin from Within Dr. Trevor Cates guides listeners toward revitalized health with a root cause and seasonal approach.

Transform your beauty routine with safe, simple, and natural DIY products! Tired of spending money on store-bought skincare filled with harsh chemicals and artificial ingredients? DIY Natural Beauty Products shows you how to create effective, chemical-free beauty treatments at home—using nourishing, plant-based ingredients that are better for your skin, your wallet, and the planet. This beginner-friendly guide is packed with easy recipes, expert tips, and customizable solutions for glowing skin, healthy hair, and eco-friendly self-care.

There are two main classes of medicinal preparations - herbal and pharmaceutical. Pharmaceutical drugs are either synthesized or refined substances. On the other hand, herbal medicine is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as labelled and final medicinal products containing parts of plants (underground or aerial), plant materials, or combinations of both, as their main active ingredient.

50 Things to Know About Natural Beauty, by Amanda Walton, offers an approach to natural beauty that is perfect for individuals or families of any age.

Are you looking to move away totally or gradually from mass produced chemical loaded skincare? Or are you willing to go on a new beauty adventure to discover the difference these remedies will make to your facial skincare? Do you want to see and feel that glow on your face without breaking your bank balance? Then look no further, this audiobook puts the spotlight on your facial skincare routine and guides you to achieving that glow you’ve always wanted. It is designed for anyone who is looking to use natural ingredients in their skin routine as mother nature intended.

Discover the creative spirit and natural beauty that make Portland one of the Pacific Northwest’s most unforgettable destinations. From vibrant neighborhoods and iconic landmarks to world-famous food carts, craft breweries, and scenic riverfront parks, this guide reveals the best ways to explore the city. Venture beyond downtown to discover breathtaking waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge, coastal escapes along the Oregon shore, and the alpine beauty of Mount Hood.

In this revised edition of the classic much-loved Facial Gua Sha book, Clive Witham, author of the Gua Sha, Facial Gua Sha, and Holographic Gua Sha series, brings his 20-year gua sha expertise to show you how your body can influence your face and how you can activate the vitality of your skin and muscle tone through ancient Chinese ideas of the natural world. Clive shows you how to view this elegant anti-aging beauty technique through the lens of ancient Chinese wisdom.

Essential oils can rapidly increase your health and wellness. Essential oils have fantastic anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and antiviral traits making them amazing for natural health. This book will show you how you can use essential oils in your life to help you obtain better health, less stress and improved beauty. It will teach you about the best essential oil for you. It will also show you different ways that you could protect yourself from choosing an inappropriate oil that could affect you negatively

"Rediscovering Vancouver" is a captivating literary voyage through the vibrant city of Vancouver, Canada, as seen through the eyes and words of author John V. Rinaldo. This book is not your typical travel guide; it's a profound exploration of the city's breathtaking natural beauty, rich cultural tapestry, and the author's personal reflections that breathe life into each listen.

Are you curious about my Essential Oil Recipe book, but still not sure this is the right fit for you? There's an easy way to find out! Let me ask you this: Are you ready to start taking 100% responsibility for your health (and for your family's health)? If your answer is yes, then I'm happy to tell you you've arrived at the right place! One big part of taking responsibility for our health is to be able to open our eyes and accept the fact that most of the things we've learned thus far in our lives about health have been completely, utterly wrong.

This audiobook will start your journey towards healthier and happier skin. Explore the reasons existing skin care remedies may be causing you more issues then they solve. Focused on natural remedies, this audiobook will give you the knowledge to start using natural remedies to improve your skin care. This audiobook is short and to the point. Giving you reasons why your current skin care routines could be damaging your skin, and why natural alternatives are proven to be better for your skin and ultimately your body.

The beauty and personal care business is huge. We are set (or set ourselves) ever higher standards and expectations, and we use a lot of cosmetics and products to try to achieve those aims - at a huge cost to our health, our pockets, and the environment. We need to green up our act when it comes to the products we use.

Throughout history, essential oils have been used for a variety of reasons, such as for medicinal and aesthetic purposes. Using essential oils in beauty products is ideal because they come from plants, which means that they are natural and there are no side effects to using them. Using essential oils is also a form of aromatherapy.

To make essential oils, oil need to be extracted from plants. This can be done through expression and distillation. Also referred as cold pressing, expression is a method used to extract oil from citrus fruits like lime, orange, tangerine, lemon, and bergamot. Most essential oils are extracted using the distillation process. In this process, the plant part is placed on a grid that's inside a container called a still. The still is then sealed. Water, steam, or a water and steam combination swirl inside the sealed still and slowly break down the plant.

This book, Hair Beauty 101 - How to Grow Your Hair, Hair Treatment and Natural Hair, is primarily designed to offer top secrets, ways, methods, which extensively discussed formulas to provide solutions for hair loss and rapidly boost hair growth. The book looks into the business of hair care and its sustenance in both sexes. Different programs have been presented in this book to enable an easy, inexpensive, and highly effective steps to control hair loss, eradicate baldness, increase hair length and strength, and also to maintain natural hair.