Author: Zoë Gardner
Publisher: CRC Press
Category: Health & Fitness
Access to accurate, evidence-based, and clinically relevant information is essential to anyone who uses or recommends herbal products. With input from some of the most respected experts in herbal and integrative medicine, this completely revised edition of the American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook reviews both traditional knowledge and contemporary research on herbs to provide an authoritative resource on botanical safety. The book covers more than 500 species of herbs and provides a holistic understanding of safety through data compiled from clinical trials, pharmacological and toxicological studies, medical case reports, and historical texts. For each species, a brief safety summary is provided for quick reference, along with a detailed review of the literature. Easily understood classification systems are used to indicate the safety of each listed species and the potential for the species to interact with drugs. Enhancements to the Second Edition include: Classification of each herb with both a safety rating and a drug interaction rating More references listed for each individual herb, vetted for accuracy Specific information on adverse events reported in clinical trials or case reports Safety-related pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of each herb, including drug interactions Additional information on the use of herbs by pregnant or lactating women Toxicological studies and data on toxic compounds Representing the core of the botanical trade and comprising the finest growers, processors, manufacturers, and marketers of herbal products, the mission of the AHPA is to promote the responsible commerce of herbal products. The American Herbal Products Association Botanical Safety Handbook, Second Edition ensures that this vision is attained. The book will be a valuable reference for product manufacturers, healthcare practitioners, regulatory agencies, researchers, and consumers of herbal products.
Plant-Based Recipes for a Clean and Healthy Home
Author: Pip Waller
Publisher: Leaping Hare Press
Category: House & Home
Infuse your home with herbal happiness using this book of ethical, empowering, and eco-friendly botanical recipes. Whether you live in a small apartment, in a boat or a van, or in a spacious family abode, a home is a sanctuary that provides us with the space to unwind, recuperate, and look after ourselves. This inspiring vegan and cruelty-free guide teaches you how you can nurture and take pride in your home and self-care routine by creating your own, botanical products, all while protecting the earth. Recipes include eco-friendly laundry and home cleaning products, charms to cleanse the home of bad energy, and miscellaneous oddities such as boot cleaner, harm-free herbal mouse deterrent, and eco sudsy car soap. By sourcing and mixing your own heavenly, herby lotions and potions, you enable yourself to become more present in everyday tasks, to put more love into what you are doing, and to make the process of looking after your home less onerous, and more mindful. So boost your mood, love our planet, and take pride in nourishing your home and soul with this beautiful book of botanical bounties.
Category: Health & Fitness
Created as a companion to the Herbal Academy's Botanical Skin Care Course, we've captured many of our favorite tried-and-tested skincare recipes into one delicious herbal book. Whether you're looking for a rich cream to pamper your face, a soothing salve for minor first aid, or topical support for a chronic skin condition, we've got something for you here. By the time you work your way through this recipe collection, you'll have a full cupboard of incredible botanical skincare products to share with your friends and family--and maybe even your pets and neighbors, too.
Botanical Ingredients for Retaining and Enhancing Beauty
Author: Victoire de Taillac
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Category: Health & Fitness
The perfect gift book from Paris’s iconic apothecary L’Officine Universelle Buly captures the elegance and sophistication of the Parisian beauty standard in a beautifully illustrated and detailed guide—with easy-to-follow recipes—to retaining and enhancing natural beauty. “Nothing is simpler, more enjoyable, more self-evident, or more efficient than taking good, natural care of yourself.” This is the philosophy of L’Officine Universelle Buly, a reincarnation of the legendary Parisian beauty emporium established in 1803. Since then, it has brought natural skin and body care to seven cities across the world, offering clays, oils, plant-based powders, and other gifts from nature collected by Victoire de Taillac and Ramdane Touhami over the course of their international travels. An Atlas of Natural Beauty is the result of their research and passion: an encyclopedic guide to simple recipes and protocols that will help anyone retain and enhance their natural beauty. This exquisitely designed book allows you to sample Buly’s unique aesthetic heritage as a French apothecary, as well as discover the modern uses, properties, and home beauty recipes for more than eighty exotic and diverse range of seeds, flowers, oils, trees, fruits, and herbs. From apricot and avocado to argan oil, jasmine, and jojoba, each ingredient is accompanied by a gorgeous illustration, its providence, its primary use, and recipes for how to use it as a beauty solution now. These ingredients are easy to find, and the recipes are easy to replicate, whether it’s making a simple oat bath to smooth skin, a sake lotion for your scalp, or a lemon “shine water” to brighten blonde hair. An Atlas of Natural Beauty is the perfect gift for newcomers and obsessives alike, empowering us all to take care of ourselves and feel confident in our skin.
Botanical Secrets for Body and Soul
Author: Philip B
Category: Health & Fitness
Skin care, hair care and special remedies all from natural ingredients. Chemical properties of each ingredient is detailed plus a glossary.
The Essential Guide to Using Natural Ingredients for Health, Wellness, and Personal Skincare (with 50-plus Recipes)
Author: Amy Galper
Publisher: BenBella Books
Category: Health & Fitness
You know your diet should be rich in plants for optimal health. So shouldn't the products you apply to your skin, which are absorbed into your body, also be filled with plants? If you've ever looked at the back of your so-called "natural" facial moisturizer or body cream and seen a list of complicated additives you couldn't recognize or pronounce, then you know firsthand that mass-produced synthetic beauty products can be something of a mystery. With Plant-Powered Beauty: The Essential Guide to Using Natural Ingredients for Health, Wellness, and Personal Skincare (with 50-plus Recipes), harness the power of plant-based energy to maintain your natural beauty and let your skin glow like never before. Natural beauty experts Amy Galper and Christina Daigneault show readers how to deconstruct beauty labels, parse ingredients lists, make informed choices about the products they use—and, most important, better understand how their skin works. At the heart of Plant-Powered Beauty, you will find more than 50 easy-to-follow recipes to make your own plant-based skincare and beauty products, such as: • Almond Milk Facial Cleanser • Anti-aging Facial Scrub • Blemish Gel • Choc-o-Mint Lip Balm • Coconut Whip Makeup Remover • Vitamin-Rich Hair Health Serum • Quick and Fresh Cucumber-Thyme Body Scrub • Moisturizing Body Oil for Super-Dry Skin • Natural Mouthwash Plus, in this updated edition of Plant-Powered Beauty, meet the hottest wellness and beauty ingredient: cannabidiol, a very unique molecule within the Cannabis sativa plant. Research shows that CBD has a remarkable effect on the skin, including supporting tissue repair, evening skin tone, and promoting a youthful glow. New CBD recipes—for men and women!—include a salve to reduce pain, bath soak to address inflammation, facial serum for balancing, roll-on for stress relief, body butter, and more. Plant-Powered Beauty unlocks sought-after wisdom for all aspects of plant-based personal skincare and celebrates the shift in beauty trends, bringing us back to natural beauty and reconnecting us with plants and healthy choices.
Author: Aviva Romm
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Category: Medical
Use herbal medicines to treat women at any stage of life! Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health, 2nd Edition provides an evidence-based, patient-centered approach to botanical interventions for many different medical conditions. More than 150 natural products are covered, showing their benefits in gynecologic health, fertility and childbearing, and menopausal health. This edition includes new full-color photos of herbal plants along with a discussion of the role of botanicals in healthy aging. Written by Aviva Romm, an experienced herbalist, midwife, and physician, this unique guide is an essential resource for everyday practice of herbal medicine. Winner of the 2010 American Botanical Council's James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award! Current, evidence-based information covers more than 150 botanicals for over 35 different conditions. Case studies provide realistic scenarios and help you apply the content to the real world. Treatment and formula boxes summarize the most important information. Color illustrations and photographs of plants enable you to identify herbs visually as well as by substance make-up. Logical chapter organization begins with the principles of herbal medicine and then covers women’s health conditions organized chronologically by lifecycle, from teen and reproductive years to midlife and mature years. Appendices include practical, at-a-glance information on common botanical names, chemical constituents of medicinal plants, and a summary table of herbs for women's health. NEW! Updates reflect the latest research and the most current information. NEW Full-color design and detailed, professional color photos of plants make this a unique, essential resource. NEW! Coverage of the role of botanicals in healthy aging for women features phytoestrogens, Ayurvedic/Chinese herbs, and discussions of health promotion.
Author: CICO Books
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Category: Health & Fitness
Discover how to use CBD oil in homemade natural beauty products to harness its powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects to help with acne, ageing and much more. CBD (cannabidiol) has become hugely popular as a beauty ingredient, especially when combined with other wonderful botanical ingredients. CBD is one of the most powerful parts of the cannabis and hemp plant and is immensely helpful for skincare needs including acne, ageing and skin irritation. CBD has no psychoactive activity, unlike THC which is the psychoactive chemical element of the plant. This means you can benefit from the therapeutic effects of CBD without any other effects. Not only a medicinal aid, CBD can also be used in an oil within your beauty products and treatments since it is rich in antioxidants as well as having brilliant anti-inflammatory properties. The CBD Beauty Book shows you how to incorporate CBD oil into a range of homemade beauty products for your face, body and hair, all made with natural, vegan and nut-free ingredients which are kinder to your skin and to the environment. Recipes include an anti-ageing rosehip face oil, a honey and cinnamon anti-inflammatory face mask, divine orange and cocoa body butter and a body balm to relieve aches and pains.
Organic Skincare, Botanical Beauty Rituals and Clean Cosmetics
Author: Imelda Burke
Publisher: Random House
Category: Health & Fitness
The definitive guide to a new generation of natural beauty, skincare and makeup from Imelda Burke, the leading expert in modern natural beauty and highly respected all over the globe as one of its earliest champions. Full of expert wisdom, practical tutorials and showcasing the most amazing brands, this is the first and most definitive guide to modern natural beauty. '[Imelda's book] is amazing' -- Emma Watson 'I can't put this book down #bestbeautytips' -- Tata Harper 'An easy to read, informative and inspiring book' -- ***** Reader review 'Amazing book! Will always be on my top 10 for skincare!' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent book, whether your are new to green beauty or a pro' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************ This honest, expert book will teach you how to recognise what your skin needs and how to buy the best products for you. Including advice for all skin types (dry, oily, teen, sensitive etc), covering key beauty tips for the hair and body (eg. natural dyes and shampoos, make-up, cleansers, toners, moisturisers, sun care, essential oils, perfume) and detailing suggested daily and weekly rituals, this bible offers both time-honoured and modern techniques, tips and guidance for all ages, and showcases the powerful natural ingredients and brands that all beauty lovers should know about.