Crafting Beauty: 25 Herbal Skin-Care Recipes

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Crafting Beauty is a practical, plant-forward guide to making your own herbal skin-care and body products at home. Designed for those who want to move away from store-bought formulas, this collection of 25 recipes focuses on simple methods, time-honored ingredients, and approachable techniques that support everyday skin and hair care.

Inside, you’ll find recipes for bath melts, soaking salts, and body scrubs, along with infused oils that form the foundation for balms, salves, and nourishing topical blends. The guide also includes formulas for moisturizing hand oils, facial toners, calming sprays, lip balms, and after-sun care, as well as practical additions like natural deodorants and herbal bug repellents.

Hair care is woven throughout, with recipes for herbal shampoos, scalp oils, hair masks, and treatments traditionally used to support a healthy scalp and hair growth.

Each recipe is presented with clear, step-by-step instructions and an emphasis on understanding the ingredients you’re working with, so you can confidently adapt and personalize your blends. Crafting Beauty is an invitation to slow down, work with plants intentionally, and build a skin-care routine rooted in knowledge, care, and simplicity.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Plantain Oil

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A gentle, accessible introduction to working with plantain leaf as a home herbal remedy. This guide walks you through how to identify plantain, prepare it safely, and infuse it into oil for everyday topical use. Designed for beginners, it focuses on practical steps, traditional uses, and confidence-building guidance so you can create a simple, effective herbal oil using tools you likely already have at home.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Rosemary Oil

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This guide offers a clear, beginner-friendly approach to making rosemary oil with intention and care. You’ll learn how to prepare rosemary properly, choose the right method for infusion, and create a versatile herbal oil traditionally used in hair care and scalp rituals. Thoughtfully written for those new to herbal crafting, it emphasizes foundational skills, safety, and simple techniques you can return to again and again.

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