Handmade Spa - Natural Treatments to Revive and Restore

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher --- Handmade Spa is a unique and comprehensive guide to replicating the luxury of the spa experience in your own home using natural, botanical preparations. Following on from the hugely successful Handmade Beauty, this is the second in the series of natural health and beauty books by cosmetic experts Juliette Goggin and Abi Righton. The book contains over 40 recipes, focusing on cosmetic treatments for skin, hair, and body, as well as the creation of therapeutic spa accessories such as reed diffusers and wheat packs. The authors encourage you to explore your kitchen, garden and local shops for the natural products and active ingredients that will grant you the ability to create your very own home spa paradise. All are accompanied by step-by-step instructions and clear, illustrative photographs, enabling you to bring the entire realm of spa treatments, as well as the practice of mind and body self-care, into your own home. This unique guide includes some of the most creative and innovative thinking in botanical and cosmetic science and reveals the importance of scent and ‘fragrance families’ in the soothing, healing or rejuvenating body and mind.

What a wonderful find! Given the prices of spa treatments (and add on the 25% gratuity that they seem to expect. on top of their bill), this book can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Well written, great photographs and the layout was well thought out --- buy the book, save money!!