The Beauty Cookbook: 200 Recipes to Make Your Kitchen Your Spa -- for Your Face, Your Body and Your Hair

by Kym Douglas, Cindy Pearlman

Looking good is in. Spending a lot of money on beauty treatments is out. Forget about $200 facial creams and break-the-bank treatments at your local spa. You can achieve the same results in your own home by just looking in your pantry, your fridge and your medicine cabinet. This is the first-ever recipe book where what you create will be used on your body instead of put on your plate. It features inexpensive recipes, beauty treatments and tips for head-to-toe beauty. Readers will be able to achieve results in their own home with natural, fresh, very affordable ingredients that are probably already in their kitchen. Kym and Cindy bring their unique, no-powder-puff-left-unturned knowledge of beauty, cutting-edge tips from experts, plus the humor and fun they are known for in their other books. They also offer natural beauty recipes from A-list celebrities that only confide their beauty secrets to them. Each chapter begins with a list of beauty ingredients and then explains the treatments, how to create them, how to use them and why they work.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 2010

About the author

Kymberly Douglas is an American television personality, actress, and blogger. She is best known for her guest starring roles in L. A. Law (1991), In Living Color (1993), Retired at 35 (2011), The Bold and the Beautiful (2017), and The Young and the Restless (2023). From 1985 until his death in 2021, she was married to The Young and the Restless actor Jerry Douglas. As a blogger, she has been quoted as a beauty and lifestyle expert by several publications and has been open about her struggles with breast cancer.

Reviews

[Lisa Carlson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've tried several of the recipes in this book and they do work. If you have honey, sugar, green tea, oatmeal, mint, cucumber you can prepare some wonderful alternatives. My teens have tried the nasal decongestant for a sudden pimple and it works well. Warming conditioner in a bowl before applying to your hair is a helpful trick to make it work better; the heat will open up your hair cuticle.

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book! Provides remedies right from your kitchen for your Face, Body and Hair. All natural remedies from food! Awesome book! Don't ever throw out spoiled fruit or veggies again, instead use it on your Face, Body or Hair. Read the book, you will love it :)

[Miss Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book has great recipes/easy and great health tips using everyday kitchen items to make homemade spa products for one's hair, face, and body.