Product Description: The promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle—shampoo that gives your hair more body, lotions that smooth away wrinkles, makeup that makes your skin look flawless, and potions that take it all off again. But while conventional products say they'll make you more beautiful, they contain toxins and preservatives that are both bad for the environment and bad for your body—including synthetic fragrances, petrochemicals, and even formaldehyde. In the end, they damage your natural vitality and good looks.

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: HCI (October 10, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0757307477
• ISBN-13: 978-0757307478
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #400,746 in Books

The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances (Paperback)

Product Description: In Sephora: The Ultimate Guide to Makeup, Skin, and Hair from the Beauty Authority, fashion and beauty journalist and former Sephora beauty editor Melissa Schweiger personally introduces the people behind some of your favorite brands and fills this gorgeous book with the beauty secrets usually reserved for insiders. Each photo-packed page brims with words of wisdom and expert advice from the creators of and authorities on more than two hundred classic and emerging beauty brands sold at Sephora, including LORAC, Smashbox, Too Faced, Dr. Perricone, Frédéric Fekkai, and many, many more.

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Collins Living (April 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061466409
• ISBN-13: 978-0061466403
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.9 x 1 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,076 in Books

Sephora: The Ultimate Guide to Makeup, Skin, and Hair from the Beauty Authority (Hardcover)

Product Description: Ginger Garrett reveals how every woman can accent her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures-where every scent and every act of beautification had spiritual and emotional significance.
A woman's longing to present herself as physically beautiful is universal. Beauty is extolled throughout the Bible as complementing God's plan for women's lives. There are currently no books that examine the beauty practices of biblical women, the plants and products God created to accent their beauty, and the spiritual roots of feminine rituals.

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (September 11, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785221786
• ISBN-13: 978-0785221784
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #78,754 in Books

Beauty Secrets of the Bible (Paperback)

Product Description: auty is not about hard work after all -- if you have the right tools. This revolutionary guide peels away the layers of conventional body and beauty wisdom to uncover the crucial missing information needed for real transformation. nationally renowned beauty and holistic health expert kat James reveals the life-altering secrets she discovered after more than a decade of self-destructive living, and an eating disorder that almost took her life.

Based on breaking science and her own remarkable metamorphosis, The Truth About Beauty represents the most comprehensively researched, inside-out beauty guide to date. In this book you will discover the real power tools for dramatic, healthy self-transformation without drugs, surgery, harsh regimens, or deprivation.

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words; Updated edition (December 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582701954
• ISBN-13: 978-1582701950
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,221 in Books

The Truth About Beauty: Transform Your Looks And Your Life From The Inside Out (Paperback)

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Mdpublish.com (May 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974899712
• ISBN-13: 978-0974899718
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #581,149 in Books

Total Body Lift: Reshaping The Breasts, Chest, Arms, Thighs, Hips, Back, Waist, Abdomen And Knees After Weight Loss, Aging And Pregnancies (Hardcover)

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: American Girl (September 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584859083
• ISBN-13: 978-1584859086
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,962 in Books

Real Beauty: 101 Ways to Feel Great About You (American Girl Library) (Paperback)

Product Description: The pace of modern life can make the quest for balance and good health a joyless exercise, wrought with the very anxieties and disappointments that you long to alleviate. Now, with the help of this inspirational blueprint for healthy living, you can transform your journey to wellness into a spirited path of self-discovery and personal empowerment. Weaving modern science with timeless principles and practical, down-to-earth solutions, The Heart of Living Well offers powerful yet simple tools and tips for creating a lifestyle that nourishes your mind, body, heart and spirit. Packed with expert advice, touching anecdotes, and personal stories from other women, The Heart of Living Well will help you break through old barriers and inspire you to live your healthiest and fullest life.

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Heart and Style Books (September 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615151396
• ISBN-13: 978-0615151397
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,684,619 in Books

The Heart of Living Well: Six Principles for a Life of Health, Beauty, and Balance (Paperback)

Product Description: For 400 years, women wore corsets that controlled their shape and constricted, and sometimes crushed, their ribs and organs. In the 18th century, "tight-lacing" was a common phenomenon, but in the 19th century, technology allowed for more effective corsetry. Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, the corset became less popular and gradually faded almost completely from use, though recently, it's come back into fashion as sexy outerwear. In The Corset: A Cultural History, Valerie Steele, chief curator and acting director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, takes on an item of clothing that has achieved notoriety among many historians. But Steele challenges the popular view that corset-wearing women were merely the victims of fashion, and delves into the "complex gender politics surrounding the corset controversies of the past." The hundreds of color and b&w photos and illustrations provide entertaining visual evidence for Steele's scholarship.

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (February 8, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300099533
• ISBN-13: 978-0300099539
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,522 in Books

The Corset: A Cultural History (Paperback)

Product Description: This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon--aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language--to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of "deracializiation" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.

• Paperback: 271 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (July 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520245091
• ISBN-13: 978-0520245099
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #413,086 in Books

Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (Paperback)

• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Fairchild Books & Visuals; 2 edition (November 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563672804
• ISBN-13: 978-1563672804
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: based on 4 reviews.
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #29,900 in Books

The Dynamics of Fashion (Hardcover)