Babushka's Beauty Secrets: Old World Tips for a Glamorous New You

by Susan Campos, Raisa Ruder, Raya Ruder

Book Overview

DON'T SPEND A FORTUNE TO LOOK FLAWLESS

Esthetician to the stars Raisa Ruder learned her time-tested beauty techniques from her Ukrainian grandmother (or babushka, as they say in the old country). Now everyone can discover the all-natural, better-than-botox secrets the Hollywood stars use to shine on the red carpet Ruder reveals her sought-after beauty recipes that can fight wrinkles, plump lips, and eliminate crow's feet and acne, using inexpensive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044655586X
• ISBN13: 9780446555869
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

MaryinHB [...]

This easy to use guide is perfect for everyone! It is filled with easy to use recipes to make your skin glow. I tried several of the simple one ingredient ideas such as an using the juice from an orange to get that all important Vitamin C as a rub. I left it on for 5 minutes and then rinsed with some milk on a cotton ball. I did find that milk with fat works much better than fat free. There are several other easy ideas as well. The most important thing I found in this book is a helper for dry skin. I used an avocado and some almond oil in paste and it worked better than my normal moisturizer. The best thing about the ideas in this book is that for any one with sensitive skin is pretty much guaranteed that you won't have any nasty reactions.

Natural Glory!

Love it! We're all about natural in this house. And I like the style this book is written in. The authors are speaking directly to you. Like you're sitting right there at the kitchen table having a conversation with a couple of your girlfriends. And they give you 10 goods reasons why you should stock vodka in your house! Hilarious! There's a shaving oil recipe on page 111 that I've got to try. As soon as I get back from vacation, since I just used the last of my cooking oil on brownies this morning. The 1-ingredient recipe for gorgeous eyelashes? Castor oil! I'm already doing this, but it was nice to see someone else does the same. Most of the recipes I didn't know about, though, so it's not like this is a rehash of the same ole stuff. There's also an index in the back so you can find your favorite recipes quickly. Just as the weekly magazines show us how to get celebrity clothing for less, Babushka's Beauty Secrets creates glowing skin for under $5. If you like using natural products, saving money, and reusing and recycling - then you'll want to get your hands on a copy of this book.

The Perfect Beauty Secrets Book

Babushka's Beauty Secrets by Raisa Ruder and Susan Campos is a perfect beauty companion for spa quality, at home, beauty secrets! All natural ingredients, using what you already have (or can purchase easily and inexpensively) to create beauty products is making a huge comeback. People (myself included) are tired of paying exuberant prices for products that quite honestly don't even work 90% of the time. If you feel this way too, or perhaps just want to try making a couple of the beauty recipes the all natural way, as shared by Raisa Ruder, this is a perfect book for you. Organic, natural, "green" products, you know, the "real" stuff - why have we moved so far away from that? Products that promote that they have certain things, looking closer, shows that they really don't have very much of said beneficial product in there to do much good. Why haven't we been demanding better? Raisa Ruder really has me changed to making my own beauty products, well some. I won't be going out and making my own makeup anytime soon. I however will be making my own bath salts, bath mixes, facial masks, eyelash grower, and even mascara remover from now on. I remember reading about Cleopatra bathing in milk. I don't remember where I read or heard this, but I was reminded of this in Babushka's Beauty Secrets. This "Milk Bath" was the very first beauty product I tried making from this book. It is a simple method of doing it, and only takes at most 5 minutes. The results however, were amazing! It made my skin moisturized and looked as great as it felt. Seriously, this is a must try from this book! Sometimes my hair gets pretty dry. The "Dry Hair Eraser" recipe did the trick on making it healthy, shiny and bounce back to life again. Plus, the ingredients (which I did have to buy) are so much cheaper than those expensive "treatments" sold at salons! My eyes are super sensitive, so most eye makeup removers are too strong and harsh for them - I literally feel burning with most. However, the "Take It All Off" recipe (that is so simple and affordable) in this book saves me the burning red-eye look after I take off my eye makeup! Speaking of, there is even a recipe in here that can help you make your eyelashes better - without a prescription (and those nasty side effects). Babushka's Beauty Secrets is a fabulous book that shares the very real and tested secrets as told by Raisa Ruder. I love everything I have tried from this book, and look forward to trying new ones out as often as possible. If you want to be more green, save money, and go back to the basics, this is the perfect book for you! * Thank you to the publisher of Babushka's Beauty Secrets, Wellness Central, part of the Hachette Book Group for providing me with a copy of this book for review. All opinions expressed are my own.