Jones - The complete guide to creating oils, soaps, creams, and herbal gels for your mind and body : 101 natural body care recipes

The Complete Guide to Creating Oils, Soaps, Creams, and Herbal Gels for your Mind and Body

101 Natural Body Care Recipes

Marlene Jones

The Complete Guide to Creating Oils, Soaps, Creams, and Herbal Gels for your Mind and Body: 101 Natural Body Care Recipes

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A few years back we lost our beloved pet dog Bear, who was not only our best and dearest friend but also the Vice President of Sunshine here at Atlantic Publishing. He did not receive a salary but worked tirelessly 24 hours a day to please his parents.

Bear was a rescue dog who turned around and showered myself, my wife, Sherri, his grandparents Jean, Bob, and Nancy, and every person and animal he met (well, maybe not rabbits) with friendship and love. He made a lot of people smile every day.

We wanted you to know a portion of the profits of this book will be donated in Bears memory to local animal shelters, parks, conservation organizations, and other individuals and nonprofit organizations in need of assistance.

Douglas and Sherri Brown

PS: We have since adopted two more rescue dogs: first Scout, and the following year, Ginger. They were both mixed golden retrievers who needed a home.

Want to help animals and the world? Here are a dozen easy suggestions you and your family can implement today:

• Adopt and rescue a pet from a local shelter.
• Support local and no-kill animal shelters.
• Plant a tree to honor someone you love.
• Be a developer put up some birdhouses.
• Buy live, potted Christmas trees and replant them.
• Make sure you spend time with your animals each day.
• Save natural resources by recycling and buying recycled products.
• Drink tap water, or filter your own water at home.
• Whenever possible, limit your use of or do not use pesticides.
• If you eat seafood, make sustainable choices.
• Support your local farmers market.
• Get outside. Visit a park, volunteer, walk your dog, or ride your bike.

Five years ago, Atlantic Publishing signed the Green Press Initiative. These guidelines promote environmentally friendly practices, such as using recycled stock and vegetable-based inks, avoiding waste, choosing energy-efficient resources, and promoting a no-pulping policy. We now use 100-percent recycled stock on all our books. The results: in one year, switching to post-consumer recycled stock saved 24 mature trees, 5,000 gallons of water, the equivalent of the total energy used for one home in a year, and the equivalent of the greenhouse gases from one car driven for a year.

Author Acknowledgement:

Special thanks to all my sources who provided me with a wealth of knowledge and made me look good when I could not do it on my own.

Author dedication:

To my sister Jacquie Harakis who, by example, inspires me to continue working toward becoming a healthier person.

To my father, Gordon Dolla, who by his untimely death on Feb. 4, 2010, taught me that when we love, we must articulate.

To my beloved mother, Elizabeth Dolla, for teaching me how the strength and love of a mother can conquer almost all.

To my siblings, Maria Paula, Victor, Debra, and Esther, for allowing me to open my heart to new possibilities.

To my wonderful children, Julian, Jedd, and Jael, for reminding me every day that I am blessed and that mothers must always make time to play and have fun, even while writing a book.

To their father, Steven Jones, for trying to be malleable and allowing me to keep working with him toward success.

Introduction

If you are like a growing segment of the U.S. population, you care about what you consume, either through ingestion or topically. You care about the fat content in the morning pastry you eat every morning and the synthetic chemicals in the scented body cream you use. You also care about what these products can do to your body whether they might be responsible for the increasing incidents of cancer across the country, and how you can substitute them for safer products that may enhance and prolong your life.

The increasing popularity of aromatherapy comes from more than just its fragrant qualities. It comes from the enlightenment of those who have, either accidentally or purposefully, gleaned knowledge that nature has healing powers for the body and for the mind. These powers were discovered and used long before the beginning of modern civilization by notorious historical figures like Cleopatra. More than leadership skills punctuated Cleopatras legendary rule of Egypt. According to David Pybus, a young Cleopatra was able to captivate some of the most powerful men of her time Julius Caesar and Mark Antony due to her knowledge and use of natural scents, which were both perfumes and intoxicants. Pybus is a self-described aromancer, a fragrance specialist, who heads the Scents of Time project. Through this project, he has captured and bottled what he believes are the ancient scents of Cleopatra, Tutankhamun (also known as King Tut), Pompeii, and the Mayans.