What's the hippest way to be green? Making your own hair conditioner, mouth rinse, lip gloss, and hand cream would be a start. Natural beauty maven Lauren Cox is bringing bath and body into the twenty-first century with easy, economical, and eco-friendly projects, featuring au courant ingredients-hemp oil, red tea, soy milk, flax seed oil, and goat's milk - that are increasingly easy to find. Recycled bottling and green gift-giving ideas round out this stylish how-to manual for the DIY generation. So whether you're a crafty chica revitalizing your skin with an Espresso Yourself Facial Mask, a penny-pinching diva rocking some simple Green Tea Toner, or a study-break organizer promising Chocolate Brownie Lip Gloss, "Ecobeauty" has a money saving, planet-loving, skin-pleasing project for you.

About the Author

LAUREN COX is a 19-year-old freshman at UCLA . She has been making her own treatments and products for the past 10 years and has done product testing for her mother's popular natural beauty books. She lives in Los Angeles, California. JANICE COX is America's leading natural beauty and home beauty expert. She is the author of three best-selling books on the subject and is a regular contributor to magazines and newsletters, as well as a frequent guest on television and radio programs. Her current focus is organic DIY products, and she is a columnist for Herb Quarterly and Herb Companion. She lives in Medford, Oregon.

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