Synopses & Reviews
Want to know the secret to growing gorgeous hair or how your favorite celebrities have such flawless skin? Introducing the power of food into your beauty routine in a whole new way, youll uncover the recipes that promote beauty from within (with beauty-boosting foods youll salivate for!) as well as topical DIY beauty recipes (for facial masks, body scrubs, and more that are, well, good enough to eatliterally!).
Dubbed the Female Beauty MacGyver” by Access Hollywood, Alexis Wolfer shares with you 131 easy, all-natural, affordable, and effective recipes that feed your beauty. Combining the best recipes from her personal archives with DIY beauty secrets and food recipes shared with her by chefs, beauty editors, and celebrities (including Kristen Chenoweth, Brooklyn Decker, Vanessa Williams, Molly Sims, Byrdie Bell, Donna Karan, and more), The Recipe For Radiance will take you into your kitchen to discover the food-based beauty secrets even the most well-pampered women rely on to look their best.
Each chapter in The Recipe for Radiance addresses a different beauty concernacne, fine lines and wrinkles, brittle nails, lackluster hair, sun spots, cellulite, chapped lips, under-eye circles, and moregiving you the inside scoop on the causes and symptoms of the most common beauty concerns along with their food-based solutions. Sample recipes include:
Strawberry + champagne serum to fight wrinkles
Avocado + oatmeal revival mask to heal dry skin
Sweet potato chips + cumin dip to even skin tone
Creamy kale and walnut salad to reduce under-eye circles
Sweet watermelon serum to soothe sunburn
Be prepared to cook yourself beautiful, all the while saving money on products and keeping your beauty routine chemical free.
Review
The Recipe for Radiance, is a surprisingly chic guide to mining your refrigerator for beauty remedies”
Teen Vogue
Geniusand super-simpleDIY beauty solutions that employ the use of everyday ingredients”
Lucky Magazine
After a couple of days, my skin seemed more hydrated”
People StyleWatch Magazine
chock full of advice, tips and recipes to help you feel and look great”
Access Hollywood
[o]ffering women an easy way to beautify from the inside out”
Huffington Post
This book is a must read for all women, its a natural and easy way to stay beautiful.”
Jones Magazine
Synopsis
Say goodbye to pricey store-bought products packed with chemicals and to fad diets that may make you drop a few pounds but leave your complexion dull and skin drab. The Recipe for Radiance takes women into their kitchens for easy, effective recipes to eat and to applyall promoting beautiful skin, hair, nails, eyes, and more.
Written by the female beauty MacGyver” (Access Hollywood), The Recipe for Radiance provides 131 easy, affordable, and all-natural treatments to boost your beauty from the outside in with recipes to apply, and from the inside out with healthy recipes to eat. Organized by beauty concerns, each of the books chapters address a different issueacne, brittle nails, lackluster hair, sun spots, cellulite, chapped lips, under-eye circles, and more.
Each section provides information on women dealing with the issue, its known causes, and symptoms. Then come the solutions! For each concern that it addresses, The Recipe for Radiance provides DIY Apply” fixes, as well as delicious Eat” food recipes. All include details on why the recipes work, key ingredients, and the results to expect.
As an extra bonus, look for QR codes throughout the book for quick access to Beauty Boosting Grocery Lists,” videos, and more. Be prepared to save money on products and feel good about knowing absolutely every (healthful) ingredient that goes into the recipes.
About the Author
Alexis Wolfer is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheBeautyBean.com as well as a beauty and lifestyle expert as seen on programs such as The Today Show, E! News, Access Hollywood, and The Doctors. When shes not testing out all of the newest beauty products, shes in her kitchen making her own. She currently lives in Los Angeles.