Deborah Burnes - Natural Beauty Skin Care: 110 Organic Formulas for a Radiant You!

LOVE THE SKIN YOURE IN!

Break it off with store-bought beauty products and make your own, the natural way.

Rejuvenate pores with a detoxing cleanser ( )

Indulge skin with a little sparkling wine ( )

Do the best for your body with a silky goat milk body butter ( ).

Dont forget your hairachieve shiny and soft locks with an Argan oil shampoo ( )

Theres tons more, for everything from nose to toes!

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I
SKIN CARE BASICS

II
THE RECIPES

M y desire to educate and empower consumers about cosmetic chemicals and healthy alternatives comes from many sources. I truly love skinit continues to fascinate and impress me. I love helping people reach their goals, feel good, and be healthy. I have also been blessed with a deep love for many women who have touched me in my life and inspired me to want to help shape our image of beauty, our desire for perfection, and raise awareness about the chemicals in the products we use to achieve this. Beyond education, I feel strongly about using my expertise to offer solutions. This book is dedicated to the many women who have and continue to touch and shape my life.

Women, especially in our society, are preyed upon from the time they can walk down a beauty aisle. With everything from candy-flavored lip balms to the brightly colored packaging on kids cosmetics (yes, they do make makeup for tots!), companies are seducing future cosmetic devotees. Not only are we bombarded with images in magazines that are unrealistic, we have contests to determine who is the most beautiful starting with babies! And where are the male versions of these contests? Obtaining this image of beauty is sold to us as the ultimate dream from the time we can see and hear and continues throughout our entire lives.

Unfortunately this is a double whammy for women. Who we are and how we feel should not be defined by what is deemed attractive. Young girls should be unaware of their outsides and be able to develop and concentrate on whats inside. On top of the pressure to look a certain way, the products we are being sold to achieve this image are filled with toxic chemicals, harming us and our planet. With both a rise in cancers and studies that show cosmetic chemicals being found in everything from the umbilical cord of unborn babies to breast tumors, we need to take note. We are not only subjecting our daughters to unneeded mental stress but also filling our bodies with a toxic burden. Discussing, changing, and educating on this topic is something I feel strongly about. This is where I can help and enable consumers to make choiceschoices they are comfortable with for themselves and their familiesas well as offer alternatives to achieve their goals.

Whereas we do not yet understand the complete role cosmetic chemicals have on our health, if we can begin to eliminate toxins from our lives we can reduce the overall chemical burden and stress to our bodies.

The support and encouragement from my friends has been a source of strength. This powerful group of beautiful women aging gracefully, naturally, and comfortably has shown me what beauty really is. Working with celebrities who have to maintain a look in an effort to be marketable and get jobs gives me an insight into the conflict and pain that aging brings. Having their careers based upon not only talent but also their appearance visibly makes aging in the public eye a difficult process. Many women in my life still have emotional moments when they look in the mirror (even without the added pressure of Hollywood). Yet without the same pressures, these women can use this as a time to look within, heal, and embrace this new phase of life.

This is not to confuse enjoying self-care with having to look a certain way to feel beautiful and chasing unrealistic goals of the images we deem are perfect, along with the oodles of products that claim to enhance, fix, or even cover imperfections. Many women undeniably enjoy the art of pampering, dressing up, and wearing makeup. For me I love a night out where I wear makeup, spend way too long picking out an outfit, and have my hair done. I am also comfortable in workout clothes with no makeup and the wrinkles on my face that show the signs of my life. I take care of my skin, enjoy pampering, and refuse to succumb to having to look 20 at 50 or needing to slather chemicals on myself in the name of beauty. To be clear, I am not condemning the age-old art of bathing, pampering, makeup, or any other self-care method that brings you joy. I am offering a peek at some ingredients in most of the products used, discussing how they are harmful, and offering potent and powerful alternatives that will garner the results you are after as well as a reminder of what we all knowthat beauty is from within, and we cant find it in a bottle. And to encourage our daughters to feel as comfortable with themselves in sweats and no makeup as they are when they are done up. If their self-value is not connected with their appearance, we have made strides. And if we can stop the practice of exposing ourselves to toxic chemicals to enhance, fix, or cover, we are on our way.