Good Gifts from the Home: Oils, Lotions & Other Luxuries: Make Beautiful Gifts to Give (or Keep)

By Kelly Reno and Jim Rohn

Book Overview

A handmade gift is the ultimate expression of friendship and love-especially when that gift is something soothing and luxurious. This inspiring book offers easy recipes for silky lotions, extravagant oils, and fragrant skin care products you can make at home, including: Peach and Berry Gardener's Hand Cream Super Light Honeydew Moisturizer Five-Oil Massage Blend Herbs and Fruit Dusting Powder Rose Bath Beads Tingling Mint Toner and many more sumptuous indulgences for the body and the senses! Based on fresh, natural ingredients, these are wholesome products you can feel good about sharing-and enjoying for yourself. Inside you'll also discover imaginative ideas for packaging and gift wrapping, so every present you give can be a unique, exquisite treasure. About the Author Kelly Renostarted making her own soaps and shampoos to enjoy more healthful, higher quality skin and hair care products. She is also the author ofSoaps, Shampoos & Other Suds(Prima).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076150334X
• ISBN13: 9780761503347
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Great for Beginners

Kelly Reno has done a great job of writing books that are helpful for those just starting out. It is amazing that you can make your own lotions and change the scents to match yourself or your friends. The lotions are heavy and greasy, but I think its because our idea of lotions are those that are so heavy with lotions (with alcohols) that we expect it to soak right in instead of using the healing properties of the oils.The bath beads turned out great. My first batch was great, but all the rest (go figure) I had to add a little more dry product to it so it wasn't so sticky. Its like cooking, its all an experiment and you just have to "season" it the way you like it.Highly reccommended!

Good Clean Fun

A great little book of recipes to pamper body and soul. Good recipes with readily available ingredients and easy to follow directions. The end results appear almost as if by magic.

Great book for anyone who wants to laern how to make cosmeti

Kelly Reno's book was very helpful and full of useful information about making cosmetics in the kitchen. I have made many of the lotions/creams with great success. Good ideas for packaging products as well