Product Description: Today, more and more people prefer to bypass commercially available body-care products—and their chemical additives—in favor of more natural, homemade products. These high-quality herbal bath and beauty items fill the bill. Ranging from soaps and shampoos to soothing lotions and lip balms, the 50+ projects include such easy-to-find ingredients as beeswax, peppermint, chamomile, lavender, vitamin E, honey, and shea butter...read more

Product Description: All-natural beauty product recipes for healthy, glowing skin and a happier you!Stimulate your senses with Lemon Poppy Seed Scrub. Rejuvenate your skin with a Glowing Goddess Face and Body Mask. Wash away your worries with a Fizzy Mojito Foot Spa...read more

Product Description: This reference provides a concise overview for both formulator and marketer of much of the chemistry of the natural world the materials that inspire and aid the discovery of new product concepts and markets. This volume looks at the entire portfolio of natural raw materials and explains in simple terms the chemistry, the folklore and traditional uses that nature has provided...read more

Product Description: As we seek more natural alternatives to harsh synthetic products, we are learning a new and healthy respect for the traditional wisdom our ancestors took for granted. Women are rediscovering their foremothers' "green witchcraft"--the use of flowers, leaves, berries, roots, and barks in home and garden, for hygiene and beauty, for pleasure and for health...read more

Product Description: Priorities and Adult Education attempts to give the reader direct and practical help in forming and improving programs in continuing education to meet the needs of both the individual and the community. The contributions from the eight contributors deal with such aspects of adult education as: individual needs and the needs of the community; the functioning of boards and committees; the role of volunteers and professionals; starting an adult education program; projects in small group settings; planning conferences, seminars, and workshops for large groups of adults; and the public relations factor in planning successful adult education ventures...read more