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    Skin-Friendly Skin Care: Make Your Own Cleansers, Moisturizers, and Toners
    Skin-Friendly Skin Care: Make Your Own Cleansers, Moisturizers, and Toners
    Skin-Friendly Skin Care: Make Your Own Cleansers, Moisturizers, and Toners
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    Skin-Friendly Skin Care: Make Your Own Cleansers, Moisturizers, and Toners

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    Are you sensitive to skin care products? Have you been thinking of transitioning from products that contain synthetic fragrances, colours, and chemicals such as parabens and phthalates? Would you like to make your own products using nourishing, healing carrier oils and essential oils that your skin will love and thank you for?

    Make your own, save money, create personalized gifts, or start a home-based business.

    This book has all the information you need for creating your own high quality skin care products, and more.
    17 Essential oils and their uses in skin care, and for body, mind and emotions 10 Carrier oils that are beneficial for your skin 7 Hydrosols to use in product formulations and as fresheners 4 Butters to enrich your creams and lotions Emulsifiers and the choice to use or not to use them in your products The non-friendly chemicals that are best avoided Easy to follow recipes for creating face creams, lotions, cleansers, and toners Books and resources for essential oils, carrier oils, containers, and raw materials

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJan 31, 2013
    ISBN9781452565941
    Skin-Friendly Skin Care: Make Your Own Cleansers, Moisturizers, and Toners
    Author

    Rani M. Johnson

    Rani has been making and enjoying her own skin care products for the last fourteen years and is the creator of Si Naturel! Skin Care and Cosmetics. Her many years of experience with essential oils, both for personal use and with clients, has shown her that Aromatherapy is truly holistic. She is very attracted to the psycho-spiritual dimensions of essential oils and continues to explore and work with that aspect of the ‘essences’. She shares her passion for Aromatherapy by offering treatments and teaching workshops. Her company and her lifestyle reflect her commitment to be of service, to promote health and wholeness, and to advocate the use of safe skin care and cosmetics. She believes that every conscious choice each of us makes towards a healthy lifestyle is a step taken in the direction of a healthy planet. She currently lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband Rob, where she enjoys growing organic herbs and flowers, and concocting delectable dishes in her kitchen. Rani Johnson, M.A., R.A.H.P. Certified in Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Reiki and Transpersonal Psychotherapy.

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    Skin-Friendly Skin Care - Rani M. Johnson

    Copyright © 2013 Rani M. Johnson

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical,

    including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written

    permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    Balboa Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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    Balboa Press

    A Division of Hay House

    1663 Liberty Drive

    Bloomington, IN 47403

    www.balboapress.com

    1-(877) 407-4847

    Cover design: Rani Johnson

    Editor: Rob Johnson

    www.ranisaromatherapy.com

    Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed

    since publication and may no longer be valid. Th e views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do

    not necessarily refl ect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

    Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Th inkstock are models, and

    such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

    Certain stock imagery © Th inkstock.

    ISBN: 978-1-4525-6594-1 (e)

    Balboa Press rev. date: 1/23/2013

    Contents

    Acknowledgements

    Celebration

    Preface

    The Structure Of The Skin

    Skin Awareness

    Ingredients Awareness

    Equipment

    Raw Materials

    Carrier Oils

    Essential Oils

    How To Use Essential Oils

    Essential Oils For Skin, Body, Mind And Emotions

    Quick Reference To Essential Oils For Different Skin Types And Conditions:

    Quick Reference To Carrier Oils For Different Skin Types And Conditions:

    Enrich Your Creams With Butters

    Hydrosols

    Vitamins & Extracts

    Emulsifiers

    Instructions For Making Moisturizers

    Moisturizers

    Moisturizers With Lecithin

    Cleansers

    Toners

    Simple Skin Care Regime

    Creating, Sharing, And Spreading The Wellness

    Step Towards Change

    Create Your Own Recipe: Part 1

    Create Your Own Recipe: Part 2

    Creating Batches Made Simple

    Creating Batches Made Simple – Blank Template

    Properties And Actions Of Essential Oils

    References

    Resources

    Related URL's

    Acknowledgements

    • The Source for inspiration

    • My husband Rob for his encouragement, support, all his listening and patience

    • My friend Wafik Raouf for suggestions, support, relaxing Trager and Reiki treatments

    • My teachers Tracie Acheson and Jan Benham for so generously sharing their knowledge

    • Alison Marks and the support group in the Get It Done course

    • All my friends and clients for continuously supporting me, for trying my products and giving me feedback – they are the ones who help me improve my products!

    A special thank you to all the authors mentioned in this book and all those who have researched and written about Aromatherapy

    For All the Beautiful Photos: Thank You

    • Brian Myers, special thanks, Australian Sandalwood picture on page108

    • http://www.flickr.com/photos/thesoc

    • Canstock Photos

    • http://www.canstockphoto.com

    • Depositphotos

    • depositphotos.com

    • Eric Lafforgue, Frankincense picture on page 72

    • www.ericlafforgue.com www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics

    • Forest and Kim Starr, special thanks, Kukui picture on pages 41, 42

    • starrimages@hear.org http://www.hear.org/starr/images/?o=plants

    • GAP Photos/JS Sira, Camellia seed pod picture on page 35

    • www.gapphotos.com

    • George and Eve Delange, Jojoba pictures on pages 38 and 40

    http://www.delange.org

    • Henriette Kress, Geranium picture on page 76 and Patchouli picture on page 99

    • http://www.henriettesherbal.com

    • JoeGoaUk, kokum pictures on page 119

    • Joegoauk@yahoo.co.uk http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk18/3465788336

    • Kolinka Zinovieff, special thanks for so generously allowing me to use so many photos

    • from his website

    • NHR Organic Oils www.nhrorganicoils.com

    • Ming-I Weng, special thanks, Sandalwood picture on page106

    http://www.arkive.org/sandalwood/santalum-album/image-G53352.html

    • Mountain Rose Herbs, special thanks for so generously allowing me to use photos from

    • their site

    • www.mountainroseherbs.com

    • Sara Brown, photos of my Si Naturel! Products (moisturizer on front cover, cleanser on

    • page 148, toner on page 150)

    • http://www.imagimento.com

    • Steve Davey, special thanks, Frankincense picture on page 74

    • http://www.stevedavey.com

    • Varien Tilton, special thanks, Meadowfoam picture on pages 45, 46

    • Rainbow Visions Photography http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhtnup/4699444475

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    I celebrate

    The Creator

    The beauty of All Creation

    Nature and Mother Earth

    and

    the gift of creativity

    Preface

    My journey in cream and lotion making began in 1997 when I met Tracie Acheson, a naturopath from Australia. I am forever thankful to her for introducing me to the art of

    creating my own skin care. Being very sensitive to many of the store-bought skin care products, and especially sensitive to fragrance, I would have headaches when I was near someone wearing strong perfume. I was congested and sounded like I had a cold all the time. I got rid of my moisturizer and other skin care products, and all perfumes as well as strong cleaners in my home. The result was absolutely amazing – all my reactive symptoms disappeared!

    Being able to create my own products was a gift. It was not only a satisfying experience but it gave me the freedom of choice. I could choose the ingredients therefore I knew exactly what was in my moisturizer and other products. Since I had come to the understanding that what I put on my skin can get absorbed in my body, I made the conscious choice of using skin-friendly and skin-safe ingredients.

    These easy hand-made creations that started as my self-care products soon became popular with family and friends. This in turn encouraged me to introduce them to my clients and their satisfaction led me to start my line of Si Naturel! Skin Care.

    In 2006, I completed a course in Aroma Cosmetology-Holistic Skin Care at the Institute of Aromatherapy in Toronto. I am thankful to Jan Benham for all that she taught me, especially for the relaxing facial treatment. I started appreciating the value of creating my own products when I started offering Aroma-Facial treatments to clients. Now, I could customize the products to suit each client’s needs and since I make the products, I could tell them exactly what is in each of them – no hidden ingredient! I find that this is very helpful for those who are sensitive to certain ingredients. Knowing what is in their product makes them more relaxed. After completing the Cosmetic Making course taught by Jan, I started creating cosmetics such as eye shadows, foundations, lip gloss and lipsticks. My line of products expanded and became Si Naturel! Skin Care and Cosmetics.

    Some of my friends and clients say that they hope I will never stop making these products. Some say that they would love to make their own one day. I do teach workshops on how to make your own skin care and cosmetics and there are many others who teach this skill and art around the world. I am all for learning and making your own. I believe that commercial preparations cannot be compared to your own creations. Imagine holding in your hand a jar of moisturizer that you created with ingredients that you know are right for you and your skin. You can’t get a more personalized product, tailored to your own personal needs, than that. Your skin will love and thank you for that! Mine does.

    Some of you say you want to make your own products but don’t have the time. As long as you have the awareness that what you put on your skin matters, that’s great. There are some good companies that sell natural and organic products and you can purchase those. If you know someone who makes such products, and you are reading this book right now, you can create your own recipe and get it custom-made.

    Being sensitive and easily reacting to food and products, I make sure I read the list of ingredients before purchasing them. I can certainly relate to those with sensitivities and allergies. The beauty of making your own product from scratch is that you can use only ingredients that you know are good for your skin and your well-being.

    A word of caution then for those who have sensitivities or allergies: if you know you have sensitivities, intolerances or allergic reactions to any of the

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