The Green Beauty Guide Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care Hair Care Makeup and Fragrances

Go green and get gorgeous

The promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle—shampoo that gives your hair more body, lotions that smooth away wrinkles, makeup that makes your skin look flawless, and potions that take it all off again. But while conventional products say they’ll make you more beautiful, they contain toxins and preservatives that are both bad for the environment and bad for your body—including synthetic fragrances, petrochemicals, and even formaldehyde. In the end, they damage your natural vitality and good looks.

Fortunately, fashion writer, nutritionist, and beauty maven Julie Gabriel helps you find the true path to natural, healthy, green beauty. She helps you decipher labels on every cosmetic product you pick up and avoid toxic and damaging chemicals with her detailed Toxic Ingredients List. You’ll learn valuable tips on what your skin really needs to be healthy, glowing, and youthful.

Julie goes one-step further—and shows you how to make your own beauty products that feed your skin, save your bank account, and are healthy for your body and the environment, such as:

• Cleansing creams and oils • toners • facials • under eye circle remedies • anti-aging serums • lip balms • scrubs • exfoliators • clay and cleansing masks
• moisturizers • acne treatments • makeup remover • teeth whiteners • shampoos, conditioners • fragrances • sun protection • bug repellants • baby products • and much more!

With her friendly, thorough, and helpful advice; fabulous beauty recipes; product recommendations and ratings; Toxic Ingredients List; and a complete appendix of online resources, Julie Gabriel gives you all the information you need to go green without going broke and become a more natural, healthy, and beautiful you.

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars A real eye-opener
This book is excellent. I want to show it to all my friends so that they will realise the amount of potentially dangerous chemicals in all the cosmetic products we use. A must read.

5 Stars Upgrade Your Beauty
Most women will look in Cosmo or other beauty magazines for the latest cosmetic and fashion tips, but what many of these magazines don’t tell you is that the products manufactured by these companies are using chemicals and other compounds that once your skin absorbs them could cause other ailments or problems. While I don’t readily wear makeup or use cosmetics, I gladly took on a TLC Book Tour stop for Julie Gabriel’s The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances. I love holistic looks at our everyday lives and books that seek to provide an alternate perspective to how we live our lives whether its from turning holiday celebrations green or learning how to reduce our own carbon footprints.

The Green Beauty Guide goes beyond the typical fad advice given by glossy magazines, providing the reader with recipes to create their own natural shampoos, facials, and other products, while at the same time providing readers with the know-how to become savvy cosmetics shoppers. Check out the Ten Commandments of Green Beauty at the end of Chapter 2.

Through a combination of science, insider information about the cosmetic industry and government regulation, and common sense, Gabriel dispels some of the myths espoused by the cosmetics industry. For instance, did you know that the skin absorbs about 60 percent of the substances applied to its surface? I didn’t, but now that I do, I plan to be more careful about what solutions I use. Think about your morning routine. . .how many cleansers, lotions, and gels do you use before you leave the house each day? Examine the ingredients of those bottles, and you’ll see exactly how many chemicals you expose your skin to every day. Given the complexity of skin and other systems throughout the body, it is no wonder that diet, exercise, and other behaviors can influence how well those systems function. Beauty or the health of your skin is tied to all of those things and more.

One of the best sections in the book discusses green washing, which will help those newly interested in the “green” movement to discern which products actually are safer for them and made from natural products, and which are merely using the presence of natural products to claim they are “green” or organic. Gabriel even provides Green Products Guide with a one-, two-, three-leaf system that categorizes how natural a product is. Other helpful sections of the book provide ways to make your own green beauty products, with a list of necessary tools, ingredients, and tips on where to purchase the ingredients. I also was surprised to find green beauty tips for babies in terms of diaper area care, massage oils, baby wipes, and bathing for babies.

Overall, this guide has a great many tips for those looking to expand the care of themselves and their environment into cosmetics and beauty care. I recommend this for those who wear makeup, lotions, shampoos, conditioners, and other products, which is pretty much everyone. We all should take better care of our planet and ourselves, and what better way than to start with the beauty products we use.

5 Stars Great Purchase
I really liked this book, I found it to be technical but friendly to read. I found myself reading it like a novel that I could not put down. The suggestions have worked well for me and I look forward to adding many of her top picks to my beauty regime. This book is a great gift for anyone who wants to start going green with their beauty products and gain some real and helpful knowledge about the beauty industry.

5 Stars Absolutly Amazing
I didn’t buy the book from Amazon, but wanted to leave a review for all potential buyers: The book is so informative, it is packed with so much information, and is a real eye-opener. I thought buying organic was enough, but its not, there are so many hidden things that Julie points out and writes about. She doesn’t just say “this is bad for you” she tells you about the effects that each chemical may have on our bodies. This is a great read, and has lots of recipes for DIY too!!

3 Stars GOOD INFO BUT LACKS SOME CONFICTION
Green Beauty is an informative book on ingredients to avoid. However, so many beauty products contain a few of these ingredients and I think you can literally drive yourself crazy trying to avoid those but wanting to look pretty at the same time. What is a girl to do? She emphasized Juice Beauty products and although I use these myself they are not as superior as one might think. She mentioned Jurlique as just as expensive as LaMer. Yes, some of them maybe but LaMer has been around for a long time and the benefits are extraordinary. And only Max and his team truly knows whats in the product. I think it’s an informative read but was confused when it came to the deoterant section as well as perfume. Are you never susposed to wear perfume? Chanel is too toxic? Well maybe, but again you just can’t get away from all chemicals all the time, that is completely unrealistic.

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