The Compassionate Chick's Guide to DIY Beauty: 125 Recipes for Vegan, Gluten-Free, Cruelty-Free Makeup, Skin and Hair Care Products

I just got my copy of The Compassionate Chick’s Guide to DIY Beauty and I am thrilled! The book is a pleasure to look at – easy to flip though with bright colors, fun patterns and a few pictures of cute furry animals. The language can sometimes be a little silly (some people might call it “hip”), but it is still informative and useful. It’s everything a vegan DIY guide to beauty products should be! The Compassionate Chicks Guide to DIY Beauty is a gorgeous, well-made book that offers 125 total vegan and gluten free recipes detailing how to make everything from blush to conditioner and facial moisturizer to deodorant. It’s fairly comprehensive take on the basics and encourages your own creativity. It favors breadth over depth, so if you’re looking a book with 25 different recipes to make bath bombs, this is not the one. That said, this book will teach you enough to get creative and figure it out for yourself! (I wrote about it and included pictures on my blog, Vegan Adventures and More)Now, you might wonder why I’d buy this book when I can easily find DIY beauty products online. Well, to begin with it can be difficult to find a good vegan beauty recipe. Some that advertise themselves as vegan aren’t always vegan because they use honey or don’t explain that most sugar (unless organic) has bone char. By buying this book, I receive a level of quality and thought put into the guiding instructions that not all DIY recipes will have. Plus I hate loosing a great beauty recipe to the Internet and then being unable to recreate it months later. This way, I’ll have a collection of reliable recipes, easily found!This book is also much more than a list of beauty recipes. I especially appreciate the fact that she includes a smaller list of staples that you can focus on gathering if you want to switch to natural beauty products so that you aren’t overwhelmed! (See page 56). If you are interested in making your own makeup products, many of the recipes she provides use the same ingredients in varying proportions, so you really only have to focus on getting a few different ingredients to create various natural beauty products!The appendix offers some useful information like a table of all natural vegan friendly beauty brands and types of products, what chemicals to look out for in nail polish and helpful tips for packaging your natural vegan creations. Finally, the resource page thoughtfully has helpful guidance on where to buy the different materials used in the guide. Sunny’s thought of everything!This book contains even more information than I have attempted to relay. In fact, I expect to get a lot of use of out this book and use it for reference quite often. If you are interested in creating your own vegan beauty products, I highly recommend this book as a great place to start! There’s nothing else on the market that compares to it.

Great skin and hair care recipes that work and are easy to follow and they feel and smell wonderful. Bonus, vegan makeup directions!!Yes, you can make mascara!! So exciting. ; )

I gave this book to my vegan daughter for Christmas and she loved it! I didn't know it...but she already follows Sunny's blog and was so excited to receive this book. I thumbed through the book and it looks super nice. I know my daughter will get lots of great tips and advice here for vegan beauty recipes.

Let me start off by saying I love the recipies in this book! They are clear about procedure, ingrediants, storage, and shelf life. I am a very detailed person and loved that all the information was right there. Most of the recipies require few ingrediants, easy preps, and are cost effective. There were two things that stopped me from giving a 5 star rating. The first is that I felt there was to much unnecessary, "fluff," text. The second is that the actual lanuage of the book felt very juvenile. It uses phrases like cray, am I right or am I right, refers to people as man and chick, etc. This in itself is not a bad thing. It was just not my preferable language style.

Fun to read and a fantastic book for anyone that wants to make their own beauty products. Great for gift making too!! Love it!!

This is a gorgeous book full of yummy photos of products you can make yourself that are so healthy, most of them are edible. Learn to make beauty products to nourish your skin organically without the toxins of typical store products. This would be a great guide for a DIY beauty party ! This book has inspired me to have one....

Awesome book. Just got it and already love it. It has pictures, easy instructions, products that aren't hard to find, and just really fun to browse through.

I saw this book advertised in VegNews magazine and it was exactly what I've been looking for. So many incredible recipes for skin care and makeup! I was able to make the aloe vera body scrub right away with ingredients I already had in my pantry and my skin has never been so smooth, even a full day after using it. Note to author: please write another recipe book for household/cleaning products!

Fast shipping. Thank you. The book is filled with great amazing recipes.

Excellent layout, quality material (matte gloss pages) and clear bright presentation , very well researched and easy to navigate. A huge resource and worth the price, although initially I hesitantly quibbled over the cost.Canadian author and publisher.

Muy completo y bien explicado. Me gustaron las recetas

Brilliant. Clear. Accessible. Empowering. Everyone I have shown this book to has bought their own copy. We've made about a dozen of the recipes so far and LOVE them! I have many other 'natural beauty' books on my shelves but this is the only one I repeatedly go back to. My teenage daughter and I are planning on working our way through the entire book. So grateful for the author's insight, expertise and teaching.

Very simple easy to follow recipes