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Best
Kept
Beauty
Secrets of the Orient
By Christine Teh
With photographs by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
For
thousands of years, traditional Oriental beauty secrets
have been passed from mother to daughter in Asia but
have rarely been disclosed to other cultures in Asia,
let alone to the West - where beauty products can
sometimes be expensive, ineffective and contain suspect
chemicals.
Over
50 Beauty remedies are presented and information on
the history, tradition, sourcing and preparation of
affordable, natural ingredients can be found in this
fascinating book. The Beauty Secrets revealed
are drawn from Chinese, Malay, Indian and other Asian
cultures and reflect the holistic, from-the-inside-out
approach to beauty that is unique to the Orient. In
addition to face scrubs, infusions to reduce wrinkles
and lines, tonics for hair and after-sun restoratives,
Best Kept Beauty Secrets of the Orient describes
traditional methods for enhancing sexual pleasure
and for the recovery of a mother’s sexual organs
and figure postpartum........more
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