Review - Organic Beauty With Essential Oil by Rebecca Park Totilo

Organic Beauty With Essential Oil: Over 400+ Homemade Recipes For Natural Skin Care, Hair Care and Bath & Body Products by Rebecca Park Totilo
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Ebook, 328 pages

Published January 13th 2013 by Rebecca at the Well Foundation (first published December 6th 2012) 

Source: Tour Review Copy

 

Synopsis:
'Looking for that perfect all-natural aromatherapy bath product? One that will keep your skin looking great, is appealing to smell, has actual therapeutic benefits, and doesn't break the bank? Well, here it is! Sweep aside all those harmful chemically-based cosmetics and make your own organic bath and body products at home with the magic of potent essential oils!

In this book, you'll find a luxurious array of over 400 Eco-friendly recipes for skin care and hair care such as Exotic Patchouli Massage Oil, Zesty Banana-Lemon Foot Cream and Jasmine Bath Bombs filled with breathtaking fragrances and soothing, rich organic ingredients satisfying you head to toe.

Designed with the naturalist in mind, each formula draws from essential oils' well-known skin rejuvenating effects, showing you how to best care for your unique skin and hair type using all-natural botanicals. Included you'll find helpful tips and customizable recipes - all with step-by-step instructions - so you can have the confidence knowing which essential oil to use and how much when creating your own body scrub, lip butter, or lotion bar!

Discover how easy it is to make bath treats like fragrant shower gels, dreamy bubble baths, luscious creams and lotions, deep cleansing masks and facials for literally pennies using only a few essential oils and ingredients from your own kitchen with Organic Beauty with Essential Oil.'

My Thoughts:
I was so excited to read this book as I have always been a huge advocate for using natural products wherever I can and making my own natural beauty products has always been a bit of a dream of mine.

Organic Beauty With Essential Oil contains everything you need to know about creating an unbelievable amount of products such as Bath Oils, Bath Salts, Bath Soaps, Body Scrubs, Facial Scrubs, Facial Creams, the list just goes on and on.

It also contains some very detailed chapters at the beginning on the basics about essential oils, how to store them and dilution tips as well as guides on what oils work best for the skin and body.

The great thing about this book is that a beginner could pick it up and have practically everything they need to know at their fingertips about using essential oils in their everyday beauty routine. I also think it would be a great guide for someone with a little more knowledge who might just be after some extra inspiration with what products they can create with their essential oils.

Most of the recipes in this book are very simple to make with ingredients that are usually on hand in the pantry at home and the methods are well written and very easy to follow.

I personally am looking forward to trying a couple of the lip balms, nail strengthening oils, lip scrubs and hair shampoos out.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the uses and benefits of essential oils, especially in the form of making their own natural beauty products at home.

About The Author

Rebecca Park Totilo’s flair and passion for life bursts into living color when she writes and speaks, as you will see in the visual way she presents herself.  She literally believes in the “show, don’t tell” principle in everything she does.  Becca has ministered to literally millions of people via television, radio and live appearances. She is an award-winning published author of over 40 books, including “Therapeutic Blending With Essential Oil”, “Heal With Essential Oil”, and “Through the Night With God.” Her credits include working as a contributor writer on two best-selling series (“Quiet Moments with God” and “Stories for the Teen’s Heart”) which sold over one million and five million copies respectively.  She is also a freelance writer for several national magazines include Christian Parenting Today, Discipleship Journal and Woman’s World.

Rebecca’s photography work has appeared in numerous national magazines such as Woman’s World, Sports Spectrum, Evangel, and Sharing the Victory.  But by far, her greatest accomplishment, if you asked her, is after a decade of rejection slips (with almost 150 in one year!), Rebecca hit it big in 1999, with over 13 books contracts, ranging from teaching curriculum to gift books and devotionals for adults.  Truly, its her grit determination that makes her inspirational writings draw such a mass market appeal.

Rebecca graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1986 with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Information Systems. In addition, she attended Faith Bible Institute in Richmond, Virginia for instruction in ministry and University of the Nations in Hawaii. She is also trained as a Clinical Aromatherapist and is an international educator offering online courses on the art of perfume-making and how to blend with essential oils worldwide on her website http://rebeccatotilo.com. Rebecca owns a cute soap boutique, Aroma Hut, near the beach in Florida where she practices as an Clinical Aromatherapist.

Rebecca won the Writer of the Year in Non-Fiction (National Writer’s Association)

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