Product Description

63 per cent of us have sensitive skin, mainly due to cosmetics and our environment and so never has there been a more timely moment to look at the more natural beauty products on the market. Sarah and Jo discuss all the relevant topics including what healing plants to use for your skin type, 10 natural ways to boost your immune system, how to look after your hair more naturally as well as presenting their Green Goddesses featuring Alicia Silverstone, Liz Earle and Scheherazade Goldsmith amongst others. And for the latest round of their ongoing consumer survey they recruited over 1100 new testers who report on 44 categories of natural products from miracle creams to suncare, mascara to shampoo. The result is a blueprint for a more natural, healthier way of living beautifully, which is gentler on you and the environment.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4800 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Synopsis
If you worry about the food you eat then you should worry about what you put on your skin - the chemicals in cosmetics are absorbed into the bloodstream, and that can't be a good thing. 63 per cent of us have sensitive skin, mainly due to cosmetics and our environment and so never has there been a more ripe moment to look at the more natural beauty products on the market. Sarah and Jo answer all your queries and set out the answers from their huge Tried & Tested survey of greener beauty products to give you an authoritative guiding hand in this relatively new market.

About the Author
Sarah Stacey is an award-winning journalist and TV producer. She is currently Wellbeing Editor of the Mail on Sunday YOU Magazine. Josephine Fairley is a Contributing Editor to the Mail on Sunday YOU Magazine, where she writes on beauty and organic living. She has also written on beauty for Tatler, Real, Elle and Here s Health.

Customer Reviews

A gorgeous book
As a great lover of natural beauty products, this book was the perfect present for me. Not only is the book beautiful to look at, but the authors are incredibly knowledgeable and authoritative. All of the products in the book have been tried and tested, which is really reassuring. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to know what they are putting on their skin.

Very Informative
I love my organic products that I use & was really looking forward to this book arriving. I was surprised at the size of the book so found it excellent value for money. I like the idea that all products were tested on women for a reasonable amount of time, it made me feel more confident in buying the products. But saying that I was VERY DISSAPOINTED that there are hardly any products with the 3 daisy rating, seeing as there are loads of products out there which come under this catagory. I was really hoping to find more testing of products from the 3 daisy products. I thought the book let me down on this as I like many other readers were hoping to find some new products without having to waste money trying them out first.
Very good but shame about the lack of organics.

worth a look but limited
I was a little disappointed with this. Although it is a large book full of lots of information it doesn't tell you how many brands were given out for testing (and how many were tested), also the daisy rating doesn't give enough detail. Generally the same few, expensive, brands came up continuously. This might mean they were the only good ones but there was no way to be certain. However, its good to see this subject being highlighted and there were some interesting mini-articles on items such as mineral make up which shows things are not always as 'green' as you think they are.