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With regard to Jo’s book The Ultimate Natural Beauty Book: first, where can you buy some of the ingredients (retail stores)? And when it comes to making perfume do you have to use vodka or can something else be used? Some of the recipes say use rose water or spring water - can I use distilled water or not? My last question relates to page 75, Fabulous Face Powder: when I make the powder what can I put it in, besides a screw-top jar?
 
The very best source for many of the ingredients in the book, says Jo, is Neal’s Yard Remedies – they have many shops around the country, and you can find a Store Finder on their site if you click here.  In addition, many of the ingredients are also offered by them mail order, at www.nealsyardremedies.com.  With fragrance, you need alcohol to act as a carrier and fixative for the essential oils;  you could experiment with using rosewater as a base, but the results would be less long-lasting.  The reason Jo likes to use vodka is because it’s essentially entirely scent-less; most types of alcohol would alter the nature of the fragrance.  (You could perhaps get some interesting results from rum, if you wanted to make something exotically-fragranced, though!)  Now for the water question: you can use distilled water, absolutely - the idea is not to use straight tap water because it tends to have traces of chlorine and other dissolved solids.  And as for the Face Powder, an alternative would be to recycle an old loose powder container – you can often find lovely vintage ones around.  The screw-top jar is simply a useful way of storing the powder to stop it getting everywhere! 

Last update: 11:17 AM Thursday, March 4, 2010

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