Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out (34 page)

Vegetable oils:
Should be your number one beauty ingredient. Vegetable oils can be added to the face cream, as a massage oil, bath oil, or body/face scrubs. Great skin-friendly oils to explore include grapeseed, rice bran, hemp, castor seed, jojoba, and sesame oils.

Salt:
Works great as a face and body exfoliating agent, especially useful for instant manicures. Look for very fine sea salt, which will not damage your skin.

Sugar:
Can be used in face and body scrubs.

Oatmeal:
make them into scrubs, face masks, bath pouches.

Tomatoes:
Revive tired skin and hair to help it look shiny and smooth.

Yogurt:
Works really well as an exfoliating face mask and to combat dry, itchy scalp.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the outstanding team of people that helped me to conceive, write, revise, and produce this new book.

To all my dear friends, my mother Lilia, my daughter Maria, my best friend Tatiana, and my readers who share my passion for natural beauty and holistic well-being. Your support, your feedback, and your invaluable ideas are precious to me.

I send heartfelt thanks to my editor Crystal Yakacki: Thank you for your faith in me, your direction, your insight in improving my work, and your patience with me.

Also, I thank Stewart Cauley for the stunning cover design.

A special thank you to Dr. Victoria Fleming for explaining the psychological concept (and consequences) of striving to be beautiful at all costs. Another thank you to yoga gurus Devinder Kaur and Paul Smith, for making the quest for truly natural beauty a lot more enjoyable.

A final thank you to everyone at Seven Stories Press for their time and effort; your kindness, your warm attitude, and your support make my job a pure pleasure. You deserve a bit of holistic, kind beauty, and I hope you make good use of my recipes. I feel privileged to create yet another inspiring story for Seven Stories!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JULIE GABRIEL is a journalist and holistic nutritionist educated at the Canadian School for Natural Nutrition in Toronto, Canada. During her career as a beauty journalist and editor, she worked for many glossy publications including
Harper’s Bazaar
,
Women’s Wear Daily
, and
L’Officiel De La Mode et De La Couture
. During her pregnancy, Julie discovered how toxic common beauty and household products can be and became determined to teach other new moms how to take care of their skin and hair naturally and holistically while avoiding damaging toxic chemicals.

As a practitioner of holistic nutrition and wellness, Julie has great interest in symptomatic nutrition, which is concerned with the effects of vitamins, phytonutrients, antioxidants, and minerals in our food on various health conditions and human health in general.

Since 2008, Julie has been formulating organic beauty products for her own skincare brand Petite Marie Organics (
www.petitemarieorganics.com
), named after her little daughter, Marie. All skincare products are created by hand using local, organic, and ethically harvested botanicals, clays, and vitamins. Petite Marie Organics skincare range is free from synthetics of any kind.

OTHER BOOKS BY JULIE GABRIEL

The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances
(HCI , 2008)

Green Beauty Recipes: Easy Homemade Recipes to Create your Own Organic and Natural Skincare, Hair Care and Body Care Products
(Petite Marie; 2010)

The Acne Diet: Holistic Plan to Achieve Clear, Youthful, Acne-Free Skin with Natural Nutrition, Stress Relief and Organic Skincare
(Pure Vitality Books, 2012).

MORE INFORMATION

The Green Beauty Guide (
www.thegreenbeautyguide.com
)
Petite Marie Organics (
www.petitemarieorganics.com
)

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