Toothpastes, shampoos, ointments and cosmetics...
The market for natural and organic cosmetics is booming, with impressive annual growth.
Faced with the proliferation of labels, consumers concerned with quality and transparency of product composition are often disconcerted.
Making your own skincare products can be the solution. Easy, fast, economical and environmentally friendly, this alternative is not just folklore, and helps to dispel preconceived ideas.
Yes, a homemade shampoo can be kept for three years without preservatives! Yes, a homemade cream can be much more effective and less expensive than a store-bought product...
It's a real choice for our health, for the earth's and often for our wallets. In a society where independence is becoming more and more of a luxury, it's time to regain that autonomy, to reappropriate ancestral knowledge and the pleasure of doing things ourselves, and to rediscover the obvious: by training and informing ourselves about the products and basic precautions for making them, who better than us can know what's good for our bodies?
Pascaline Pavard et Mouise - Éditions Edisud - 152 pages