The book has recipes for natural body care that utilize ingredients typically found in your kitchen (with the exception of essential oils that are provided with the book).
At least a couple of times every week since Christmas day, the girls have made a recipe. Everything from citrus toners, intensive moisturizing soaks for nails (fingers and feet) to facials masks and hair rinses.
My weekly shopping list now regularly includes lemons, pineapple juice and chamomile tea bags.
The facial masks have been a particular favorite to experiment with even though the girls found a couple that were more than a little messy in both application and removal.
The "Oatmeal honey mask" is made with 3 tablespoons of uncooked oatmeal and 2 tablespoons of honey. This is a favorite for L. because the removal of this particular one is "easy" as she eats most of it off her face.
The "Simple oatmeal mask" with oatmeal flour and milk was a lot messier so L. likes the honey mask better (and I'm told the other one tastes better anyhow).
And Fino, who is a total metro-guy at heart, has enjoyed the girls' manicures, pedicures and facials they've done for him. (But humoring the girls did not include allowing me to take photos of him, the party pooper!)
I personally enjoyed the "Pineapple soak" for my feet. It was made with warm tap water and 2 cups of pineapple juice and the girls reused the soak several times before throwing it out (but they had to warm it up every time because there is nothing fun about putting your feet in room temperature water in a cold house in the winter).
L.'s favorite recipes in the book are the hair rinses. Both girls have dark brown hair but that has not stopped them from thinking that the chamomile rinse gives them more pronounced highlights (the book indicates it's best for bringing out the highlights in blond and red hair).
The "Chamomile rinse" is 2 cups of water and 2 chamomile tag bags. The book says, "Use it as a final rinse and it will leave your hair shiny and softly scented." I think the girls simply like the smell of chamomile in their hair so this has been a regularly made recipe for them. One of G.'s favorite recipes (besides the oatmeal honey mask because she likes to eat that off her face too) is the "Cornmeal exfoliating scrub," which is simply 3 teaspoons of cornmeal and a bit of warm water.
"It makes my skin feel really smooth after and that's why I like it."
This book has been an endless supply of entertainment (of the inexpensive variety) for my girls and likely one of the best Christmas gifts of all time at our house. I mean, it's mid-February and they still aren't tired of this book yet.
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