Keep your family healthy and chemical free by making your own natural remedies. Stephanie Tourles offers 150 original recipes for herbal balms, oils, salves, liniments, and other topical ointments to treat a wide range of conditions. This comprehensive guide is filled with safe and effective cures for scores of common ailments, including headaches, backaches, arthritis, insomnia, splinters, and more. Take control of your well-being and stock your family’s medicine cabinet with gentle, all-natural homemade healing formulations.
Stephanie L. Tourles is the best-selling author ofPure Skin Care,Stephanie Tourles's Essential Oils: A Beginner's Guide, Organic Body Care Recipes,Hands-On Healing Remedies, andRaw Energy.She is a certified foot and hand reflexologist and aromatherapist—and a licensed massage therapist and holistic esthetician. Tourles also has a strong background in Western and Ayurvedic herbalism. She lives in Marble Falls, Texas.
The Natural Cure for What Ails You
Clean out your medicine cabinet and replace artificial commercial balms and liniments with all-natural handmade herbal remedies. Stephanie Tourles's recipes are easy to prepare from readily available ingredients, and they will soothe everything from backaches and blisters to insect bites and insomnia.
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Sweet Annie Serenity Body Oil relieves anxiety; Lavender Ice reduces the pain, swelling, and discoloration of bruises; Essential Skin Conditioner smoothes stretch marks; and Coconut-Honey Bliss Lip Butter moisturizes chapped, dry lips. With 150 original recipes, this is the essential resource for making topical herbal treatments at home.
Introduction
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Part 1: Making Your Own Healing Formulas
1 An Introduction to Traditional Healing
2 The Herbal Home Apothecary
3 Tools of the Trade
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Part 2: A Collection of Herbal Remedies