Elaine Stavert Knihy

"Detailed step-by-step information is given on waxes, wicks, moulds, melting, pouring, colour and fragrance along with 30 unique candle recipes to get you started with this fun craft."--P. [4] of cover.

By blending the right scents, herbs, and essential oils, anyone can create sophisticated and natural cleansing, toning, and rejuvenating masks. Beauty Masks & Scrubs offers 30 spa-quality recipes that can be adapted for different skin types and preferences. Easy-to-follow instructions, color photos, a directory of ingredients, and tips on fragrances make the process enjoyable.

Pamper and de-stress yourself by popping a glorious fizzing bath essence into a warm, relaxing bath and let all the strains and stresses of the day just melt, or rather fizz, away. Either as treats for yourself or gifts for loved ones, here are 30 sensuous delights to make, using sophisticated scents and aromatic herbs to suit your mood or even help with ailments. Using natural products and easy-to-follow instructions you’ll have fun making them and that will make the fizz all the more special when you slip into a bath for a long soak at the end of a busy day. Everyone will be able to find the perfect recipe for them whether it is ‘Milky Whey’, a creamy mix of goat’s milk and whey powder in star or moon shapes, ‘Snowtime’, pine oil fragranced pine tree and star shapes or ‘Game, Set & Match’, a comfrey or wheatgrass powder concoction moulded from a tennis ball! 30 specially created fizzing bath bomb recipes have been conjured up by the author, Elaine Stavert, who runs The Littlecote Soap Co. in Buckinghamshire, England. Gathering all her expertise from making handmade soaps and ‘Bath Fizz’ bath bombs for her successful company, she presents the techniques for making the basic recipe and using additional ingredients and pigments with clear easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs.

Treat yourself and your skin with these luxurious, natural oils. This new book, Beauty Oils and Butters joins the others in the Cozy series, presenting 30 sensuous delights to pamper yourself with from tip to toe. Sophisticated scents and aromatic herbs are blended with essential oils to create toning facial oils, relaxing bath time treats and stimulating foot treatments. There's something to suit every mood and to soothe every ailment. With easy-to-follow instructions you'll have just as much fun making these oils and butters as you will testing them out. Create unique products designed exactly to suit your skin type and personal preference. With a directory of essential oils and alternative blend suggestions, a directory of oils and butters and their skin enhancing benefits, as well as a directory of herbs and their uses, you're fully equipped to try your hand at aromatherapy.