The Compassionate Chick's Guide to Beauty: 115+ Recipes for DIY Vegan, Gluten-Free, Cruelty-Free Makeup, Skin & Hair Products: 125 Recipes for Vegan, ... Makeup, Skin and Hair Care Products

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.

All my own homemade ideas and more in one book. Perfect for the ethical consumer, looking to reduce over processed products in their homes.Seriously recommend.

Bought as a gift for my daughter and she loves it

For a gift but looks good

Great, fantastic. Lovely book, well written and user friendly. Worth every penny.

Excellent and useful. Love this book. Easy to follow and amazing results. Highly recommended.

If, like me, you buy this book for the recipes, I strongly suggest you skip to page 39. The first 38 pages are nothing but a vegan tirade, unnecessary pictures of animals and pictures of the author and her family wearing t-shirts with Vegan/PETA slogans on them.As for the gimmicks - the book claims to have 125 recipes for Vegan, Gluten Free and Cruelty Free DIY home beauty.Vegan: some recipes use Avocado, which isn't strictly vegan. I know many people say it is fine, or a grey area, but considering we have 30+ pages of vegan preaching about all the different types of 'yucky' animal products used, you'd think the author would think twice about including such an ambiguous ingredient.Gluten Free: unless you ingest gluten, it isn't an issue if, like me, you have Coeliacs. So, there is no need to label any of these products as gluten free unless you are just aiming for catchy buzz words to sell books. FYI, some recipes use oats as an ingredient, which DOES contain gluten, but no mention of using specifically gluten free oats. So, again, gluten free is just a buzz word.Cruelty Free: Again, another buzz word. By making DIY products, we are naturally making things that will not be tested on animals, which automatically that makes it *animal* cruelty free. So, an unnecessary label. But no mention of child slave labour used to produce Shea Butter, and avoiding that. Because the author only cares about animals. So no, this book does not help you make completely cruelty free products.Also, WARNING. Some of the make-up recipes tell you to use Cinnamon powder on the skin. This can be very dangerous, as many people are hypersensitive to it and it can burn your skin. If you are going to use that recipe, do a small patch test first before you slather it all over your face.On the positive side, there are some useful recipes. I will be making notes of them and then reselling this book, as the amount of useless fluff and vegan ranting way exceeds the beneficial.

lovely book

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

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.

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.

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