Natural Skincare For All Seasons: A modern guide to growing & making plant-based products

This is a modern, practical guide on how to grow and make your own skincare products, no matter how big your garden.

This handbook enables you to switch from toxic to nourishing skincare products that are better for you and the environment. Harness the therapeutic power of plants and natural ingredients to look after your skin – the body’s largest organ – simply, gently and effectively.

Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Skin – understanding what the skin is and how we take care of it; Chapter 2: Plotting My Skincare Garden: What to grow and how to arrange it; Chapter 3: Choosing Skincare Plants: The top 22 skincare plants to grow and forage for and their beneficial properties; Chapter 4: The natural skincare garden through the seasons: What to do to maintain your garden through the year and how to harvest and store your plants; Chapter 5: Basic formulations and 30 skincare recipes, including skincare teas cleanses, oils, creams and more; Sustainability – how to make a Natural Cleaning Spray and Botanical Household Soap.

Silvana takes you on a holistic journey, guiding you through planting the seed in the soil to growing harvesting, storing, creating and bottling your home-made herbal skincare.

• Natural, simple, home-grown and handmade skincare toiletries are better for your health, your wellbeing and your wallet. This book takes you on a year’s journey from soil to shelf in an empowering and liberating way.
• The natural skincare market is the fastest growing sector of the global beauty industry and with good cause – synthetic chemicals in skincare products have been linked to increasing skin allergies, respiratory diseases, cancer, headaches, infertility and hormonal disruption. The skincare market is unregulated and lacks transparency, yet what goes on the skin is often absorbed into the blood.
• The vegan cosmetics industry is expected to reach $20 billion globally by 2025, with a surge of 275% in the last five years alone. Natural, organic and wild-harvested ingredients have a molecular structure that the body can recognise and therefore can absorb and utilise without reaction. The creation of this book is underpinned by increasing consumer demand to understand and be in control of the ingredients used in skincare.

Competition: liz earle, the body shop, neal’s yard, korean skincare, skincare, the new edit, the skincare bible, the korean skincare bible, your best skin, black skin, the beauty insider. Caroline Hirons, Dija Ayodele, Dr. Anjali Mahto, Alice Burrell, Lilin Yang