Natural Beauty from the Outside In: 75 Easy Recipes from Around the World to Nourish Your Hair and Skin [PREORDER SIGNED COPY]
Natural Beauty from the Outside In: 75 Easy Recipes from Around the World to Nourish Your Hair and Skin
By: Sojourner Walker Williams
(Coming Soon: October 15, 2021/ Stockpole Books)
As a nation with a growing collective health consciousness, many of us go through great pains to make sure we’re eating organic foods, cutting back on sugar and processed goods and getting the proper nutrition, all in the name of health, wellness, and longevity. The wellness movement is global and it is massive. It’s a movement that continues to gather momentum and rising to the forefront in all of this movement is the notion that you aren’t only what you eat, but you are also what you put on your skin.
We must nourish ourselves from the inside out, but also from the outside in. Our skin is our largest organ. In many ways, like a sponge, our skin absorbs what is placed on the outer layer or epidermis, drawing it deeper into the inner layers and through the process of circulation, into and through the bloodstream. Much of what our skin comes into contact with makes its way directly into our bloodstream. Effects vary over time ranging from skin irritation to systemic toxicity and disease. So where are we encountering these toxins? For some, these encounters are work hazards, but for most people, we encounter toxic chemical substances in the products we put on our skin- our lotions, deodorants, make-up, and hair creams, may expose us to synthetic dyes, parabens, lead, phthalates, polyethylene glycols, butylates, and petroleum. The list of toxins in many of our everyday use bath and beauty products like shampoos, lotions, sunblock, mascaras, lipsticks, and hair gel can be astonishing.
From the Outside In, is a practical and inspiring book of travel tales, natural healing and easy to follow bath and beauty formulations that can be custom-tailored and made at home in your kitchen to promote clean living and enhance health.