The international beauty book. Organic beauty secrets

Facial masks made from honey, lemon hair setting lotions, dry shampoos concocted with egg whites, fruit hand softeners and a tomato skin treatment are a few of the exciting natural beauty secrets in this fascinating collection. Simple and easy to make at home, the book’s preparations use ingredients found in every supermarket, drugstore, nutrition shop and backyard garden. Many treasured family secrets, handed down from generation to generation and given to the author by princesses, gypsies, film stars, make up artists, writers, chambermaids, masseuses, and other women-of the world. There is even a formula for tired skin from Colette, whose beautiful complexion was almost as famous as her classic novels. Since antiquity, women have sought to preserve youth and beauty by every imaginable means. During the Renaissance, they slept (alone, of course) with a milk-soaked veal cutlet on each cheek; Caesar’s wife and Helen of Troy used masks of powdered iris root and beans, while Cleopatra made hers from wax mixed with honey•