From Dr. Leslie Baumann, a world-renowned dermatologist, comes a program that’s revolutionizing the way people everywhere think about–and shop for–skin care. Now you can identify and buy the products that are right for your true skin type. Answer the Baumann questionnaire inside this book and within minutes you can learn…

As everyone knows, all skin is not created equal. But whereas previous books identified only four basic skin types, through her cutting-edge clinical research in Miami Beach, Dr. Leslie Baumann discovered that there are actually sixteen distinctly different skin types–each with unique needs all its own. But caring for your skin doesn’t have to be complicated. As Director of Cosmetic Dermatology at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, Dr. Baumann has tested her program on thousands of patients, developing a system that is already transforming dermatology. Now her proven program is available to you. You’ll discover:

• Your personal skin type profile detailing exactly what will work–and what won’t–for your unique complexion

• An extensive product guide to name brands suited to every skin type and budget, including cleansers, moisturizers, toners, sun blocks, foundations, and much more

• Natural health and dietary advice for beautiful skin

• Tips on preventing skin aging and “problem” skin

• The latest information on the new world of prescription products, facials, chemical peels, Retin-A, Botox, and collagen injections

So take the questionnaire, discover your type, and find the products you need to look like a million bucks without spending a fortune. With this book in hand, you’ll save time, money–and something even more valuable: your skin.


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"Skin Care: Beyond the Basics" is an invaluable resource for both the student and professional esthetician. Containing realistic scenarios and the latest breakthroughs in skin care, the book offers expert instruction in an easy to understand manner. New and expanded sections cover various skin care challenges, including rosacea, sensitive skin, hormones and menopause, and post-laser skin care. The numerous examples and application techniques presented throughout the book can be utilized in daily practice. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Spa expert Barbara Close has created a holistic guide to beautiful skin, covering everything from organic products to detox to stress relief. In the tradition of her popular Spa Deck and Well Being, Pure Skin is a natural, no-nonsense approach to skin care. Demystifying beauty-industry hype, Close helps readers understand what makes their skin unique, how skin really functions, and how to make sense of the multisyllabic minefield that is a cosmetics label. With balance as a main ingredient, readers develop a skin-care regimen to suit their individual needs. Forty recipes for natural beauty treatments introduce luxurious alternatives to industrial products. Sensible and accessible sections on food and detox reveal simple and effective ways to nourish and restore skin from the inside out. Special attention is given to curatives such as homeopathy and Bach flower remedies, offering invaluable resources for those with hard-to-treat skin problems. Evocative photography and clear advice make this indispensable guide to naturally beautiful skin the next best thing to being born with it.

About the Author
Barbara Close is the founder and president of Naturopathica, a full-service holistic spa and botanical skin-care line in East Hampton, New York. She has consulted on botanicals and ingredients for Procter & Gamble and Limited Brands.

Gentl & Hyers are photographers based in New York City. Their work has appeared in Real Simple , among other publications.

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Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails. Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the body and soothe the senses.

Tourles, a licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist, has developed 175 recipes that are fun, simple, and immensely satisfying to make in home kitchens. Her natural beauty treatments deliver the results promised by department store brands — skin, hair, and nails that glow with vitality and inner wellness. Lotions, scrubs, toners, balms, and masks polish and balance the skin, soothe current problems, and prevent future ones. Shampoos, rinses, and conditioners tone the scalp, boost highlights, and leave hair soft and shiny. The book's whole-body coverage also includes recipes for hand and footcare, nail treatments, shaving cream, and even popular spa treatments such as microdermabrasion exfoliants, detox and cellulite soaks, ayurvedic oils, and herbal cold salves. Most important, there is never any doubt about the purity of these ingredients!

Each formula is clearly presented in recipe style, with notes on prep time, storage, and uses. Many products can be customized according to personal needs, whim, or mood, and they all use readily available, natural ingredients. Organic Body Care Recipes is a natural treasure for every body.

About the Author
Stephanie Tourles is a licensed holistic esthetician in both Massachusetts and Maine, with over 20 years experience. Trained in western-style herbalism, she specializes in the use of herbs as they pertain to skin, hair, nail, and foot care and regularly creates herbal cosmetics and treatments for her clients and friends. She is also a certified aromatherapist, with extensive training in the nutritional sciences, and is the author of several books on natural body care including The Herbal Body Book, Naturally Healthy Skin, and Natural Foot Care. Stephanie resides in Orland, Maine with her husband and pets, and spends her spare time hiking, organic gardening, and cooking.

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It's a fact of DNA: If you can trace your roots back to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, India, Latin America, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the South Pacific, or any group of Native Americans, your genes react similarly to genes in the darkest skin. And chances are, you may have received confusing advice -- or no advice at all -- about how to care for your skin. Although nearly half the population of the United States shares the hallmarks of skin of color, many dermatologists and beauty consultants routinely prescribe remedies created for Caucasian skin without understanding how sensitive and easily damaged skin of color is. It's no wonder, then, that many women and men of color continually battle skin problems, and it takes a terrible toll on their self-esteem.

Finally, Beautiful Skin of Color unlocks the particular secrets of your skin and provides the answers you've been searching for. Dr. Fran Cook-Bolden and Dr. Jeanine Downie, internationally recognized dermatologists and women of color, and Barbara Nevins Taylor, an award-winning reporter on skin and hair issues, offer clear, specific advice to help you achieve and maintain a healthy, gorgeous complexion.

In a quick-reference, A-to-Z format, using examples drawn from personal and professional experience, Dr. Cook-Bolden and Dr. Downie explain why problems occur, and then prescribe reliable remedies and groundbreaking new procedures specifically created for skin of color.

Throughout this comprehensive guide, the doctors show you how to work with your skin and hair -- and your dermatologist -- to create your own unique skin-management program. A long-overdue and much-needed resource, Beautiful Skin of Color is certain to help you look and feel your best.

Jeanine Downie, M.D., is director of Image Dermatology in Montclair, New Jersey, and is an assistant attending physician at Mountainside and Overlook Hospitals. In addition to traveling across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia as a leading lecturer on skin of color, she has appeared on The View, The Weekend Today Show, and Living It Up with Ali and Jack and in InStyle, Cosmopolitan, O, Essence, and other publications. She lives in West Orange, New Jersey.

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A comprehensive guide to cosmetics and body-care products you can make yourself with essential oils that are healthier and less expensive than their commercially made equivalents.

 Over 100 simple and inexpensive recipes. 

 In addition to providing general skin and hair care, formulas treat acne, sunburn, cellulite, wrinkles, and many other conditions. 

Now anyone can take personal control of the beauty and cosmetic products they use. This complete guide to aromatherapy for hair and skin care explains how to create cosmetics that are custom-made, natural, vibrant, and healthy--and that avoid the preservatives and additives of commercial products. More than 100 recipes provide an endless variety of formulas and fragrances to choose from. 

Remarkably easy and inexpensive to prepare, these recipes for shampoos and rinses, bath and massage oils, astringents and aftershaves, cleansers, masks, and lotions require only a few basic ingredients that are all easily obtained. From a facial steam bath of juniper, lemon, and cypress to a tanning lotion of witch hazel, bergamot, and lavender or a stimulating massage oil of rosewood, geranium, and orange, aromatherapy cosmetics can be made to individual specifications and used as charming personalized gifts. Keller explains how to identify the purest oils and tells which are naturally suited to specific hair and skin types. He also describes their individual healing properties so that people can use and combine their favorite scents with confidence. 

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The second edition of this thorough reference is an invaluable tool for assessing cosmetic products, addressing both the quality of the product and the effect it has on the skin. Since a product's ultimate purpose is to benefit the skin, it is crucial to have an understanding of how the skin works, how and why a product may or may not penetrate it, and what care individual skin types and conditions may require. It is difficult to discuss product ingredients without correlating product performance to skin function. An expanded section on skin physiology and chemical concepts enables the reader to better understand product performance through a thorough explanation of how chemicals and ingredients interact. The various skin types, conditions, and appropriate ingredients for treatments provide a quick reference to address clients' needs. This enlarged second edition contains over 2,000 ingredients including 200 new and updated entries. Expanded information on antioxidants and their stability, new discussion on aging and sensitive skin, and function of SPF and new sunblock ingredients offering full spectrum sunscreen and sunblock for both UVA and UVB rays has been added.

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Editorial Reviews

Hampton's Magazine, June 2005
Great Skin is one of the first books on new non-invasive, anti-aging techniques that have emerged in the last decade. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Honolulu Advertiser, Spring 2005
Dr. David Goldberg cuts through the hype and explains a natural, common-sense approach to beautiful skin --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Everything you need to know to provide expert care for black skin care is right here at your fingertips! This comprehensive new book provides an overview of skin and its functions, including the latest information on the distinctive features of black skin, environmental influences and problems specific to black skin. From identifying skin conditions, to methods of cleaning, to the use of herbs, oils and massage, this is the ideal resource for professionals in the beauty industry and for everyone interested in black skin care.

About the Author
A practicing dermatologist, Thrower has his own ethnic skin care line. A graduate of University of Miami's School of Medicine & George Washington University, he has appeared in print, radio & TV. Dollars & Sense rated him one of the top 5 young black entrepreneurs and, in 1994, the City of Miami gave him a proclamation for his work in black skin care.

Henry J. Gambino has a PhD in Cosmetology Science from Columbia Pacific University and is a consultant to the skin care industry. He is a former salon owner, esthetician, lecturer, and author on skin care and related subjects.

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Editorial Reviews

--Ebony
"Taylor empowers the Black woman to look and feel beautiful."

--Harriette Cole, author of Jumping the Broom and Vows
"This is a wonderfully informative book. It should be bought by every woman of color."

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Loughran provides numerous natural approaches that one can take for healthy skin, such as stress aromatherapy, stress management, massage, nutrition guidelines, and Ayurveda techiniques. She emphasizes that skin care starts from the resolution to calm and clarify the mind and body, and presents simple and refreshing alternatives to commercial products on the market today that can often overwhelm the skin with harsh chemicals. This book is crucial for anyone who wishes to regain control of their physical health and mental calm, and most importantly, their natural beauty.

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From diet to peels—a complete picture.

A skin-care expert and a medical writer provide readers with a lifelong plan for good skin. With advice for everyone from teens to seniors, they cover such topics as the importance of diet, exercise, and water intake; which “cosmeceuticals” and pharmaceuticals really work; and treatments for problems such as aging, sun damage, acne, pregnancy masks, menopause, rosacea, and more.

• 17 million Americans over the age of 18 suffer from acne
• Botox injections are up 553% since 1992—the third most popular plastic surgery procedure in 2001 after breast augmentation and liposuction
• Full skin care regimen and treatment options for all types of skin—for both women and men.


About the Author
Lucy Beale is a wellness coach and speaker on body, mind, and wellness. Her books include The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Weight Loss, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Low-Carb Meals, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Terrific Diabetic Meals.

Angela Jensen is a dedicated skin care technician who owns and operates Vescent Whole Beauty Studio in Denver Colorado. She holds a degree in women’s health and wellness and certification in fitness and nutrition.

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