Amy Galper - Plant-Powered Beauty (with 50-plus Recipes)

Praise for Plant-Powered Beauty

A plant-based diet makes you beautiful on the inside, and Plant-Powered Beauty gives you the tools you need to make sure youre giving your skin the best on the outside.

Bobbi Brown

Plant-Powered Beauty speaks to my soul. Its an intelligently and beautifully written book, which will serve to both educate and inspire you to go as natural as possible with your beauty regimen. Amy and Christina encourage us to harness the power of plants for healing and healthy, glowing skin. Right up my street!

Sophie Uliano, New York Times bestselling author of Gorgeously Green

This is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the ins and outs of beauty. Amy and Christina do an incredible job clearly explaining the function of each ingredient and the benefits for each skin type. Plant-Powered Beauty is a brilliant guide to navigate the world of clean beauty and how to have healthy radiant skin.

Annie Jackson, COO of Credo Beauty

Plant-Powered Beauty reminds the reader of what Ive always believedwe should not have to compromise our health for our beauty. As a comprehensive guide to natural ingredients and their importance in every aspect of our lives, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in keeping their skin, the bodys largest organ, healthy and radiant without using synthetic chemicals.

Tata Harper, cofounder of Tata Harper Skincare

Beauty radiates inside out! Beauty, life, and nature are all interconnected, and the pure essence of plants is vibrational, healing and nurturing us on a deeper level. Love how Plant-Powered Beauty taps into this and is so inspiring with the recipes for self-care and skin regimens, which will surely make us shine bright!

Mina Gough, development for Standard International Management and spa director at The Standard Spa, Miami

Plant-Powered Beauty copyright 2018, 2020 by Amy Galper and Christina Daigneault

This book is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to serve as a substitute for professional medical advice. The authors and publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use of any information contained in this book. A healthcare professional should be consulted regarding your specific medical situation.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. All trademarks and copyrighted items mentioned and shown in photos are the property of their respective owners.

Cover and interior photography and Amy Galper headshot by Cayla Zahoran Photography Christina Daigneault headshot courtesy of author

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First E-Book Edition: March 2018

The Library of Congress cataloged the first edition as follows:

Names: Galper, Amy, author. | Daigneault, Christina, author.

Title: Plant-powered beauty : the essential guide to using natural ingredients for health, wellness, and personal skincare (with 50-plus recipes) / Amy Galper and Christina Daigneault.

Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017034035 | ISBN 9781944648855 (trade paper : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Beauty, Personal. | Herbal cosmetics. | SkinCare and hygiene. | Toilet preparations.

Classification: LCC RA778 .G327 2018 | DDC 646.7/2dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034035

ISBN 9781950665679 (second edition)

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To our families.

Amy & Christina

CONTENTS

We wrote Plant-Powered Beauty with a single intentionto inspire you to make your own beauty products and connect to natural ingredients in a new and exciting way. Plants have a deep impact on our day-to-day lives, and we feel confident that through the experience of smelling, touching, and blending different plant ingredients together in our easy-to-follow natural beauty recipes, you will become more aware of how plant life can support a healthy lifestyle.

As aromatherapists, we have developed a unique and dynamic formulating style that is founded on the belief that beauty is holismmeaning that the whole of beauty is made up of a healthy balance between body, mind, and spirit. We want to teach you our natural beauty blending skills so you will have alternatives to todays marketplace filled with conventional beauty products that contain harmful synthetic and toxic ingredients, many cleverly disguised as helpful agents of vitality. We know it can be hard to distinguish what is healthy from what is harmful, and even more challenging to find true plant-based alternatives. Plant-Powered Beauty will help you understand ingredients in a new light, so you can make skincare choices with confidence.

We believe that what we put on our bodies should be evaluated with the same concern we give the foods we eat. We should think about how a product is made, what ingredients it contains, how it is processed, and what its impact is on our health and the health of the environment. Our skin is our largest organ and absorbs what we put on it, and even when we rinse a product off, its ingredients get absorbed directly into our ecosystem.