The cosmetic industry offers us more and more innovative and effective products to fight wrinkles, cellulite and other imperfections; our toilets are filled with cosmetics that promise to make us look younger, brighten and flesh out our face, make our hair soft and voluminous.
How much of everything we are promised is true? How many of the cosmetics we use are really useful? What impact do the cosmetics we use every day have on our health and the environment?
Julien Kaibeck, in his book Slow Cosmétique, makes us reflect on what is indispensable for the health and beauty of our skin and gives us advice and recipes for essential, natural and ecological cosmetics .
What is Slow Cosmétique
Slow Cosmétique is a movement that invites you to experience beauty in a simpler and more conscious way . Just as Slow Food urges consumers to demand healthy and ecological food, Slow Cosmetique promotes a conscious consumption of cosmetics, inviting them to consume less beauty products and to use natural and quality ingredients .
It is not just a question of choosing certified eco-organic cosmetics: faced with the impressive number of cosmetic products on the market that promise miracles, Slow Cosmétique invites consumers to return to the essentials, which gives space to natural cosmetic ingredients that are not as well handled as vegetable oils and aromatic plants and gestures of beauty that do not require the use of products, such as facial gymnastics.
Therefore, Slow Cosmétique does not only include choosing the best cosmetics, but also changing their beauty habits and changing their approach to taking care of themselves.
Do-it-yourself natural exercises and creams for the eye area
The beauty routine according to Slow Cosmétique
Every day, instead of using different cosmetic products to look more beautiful and younger, Julien Kaibeck, author of the book Slow Cosmetique, recommends a series of natural gestures and ingredients to take care of her skin: it starts with a cleansing of the face and body clay-based to continue with a massage with vegetable oil or with a self-produced cream, facial gymnastics exercises and application of a natural deodorant.
The beauty routine ends with a natural make-up based on mineral makeup, a splash of natural self-produced perfume with essential oils and a beautiful smile in the mirror.
The book of Slow Cosmétique
Slow Cosmétique is the book by Julien Kaibeck, published in Italy by Edizioni il Punto di Incontro, which explains how to take care of our skin in a simple and natural way.
In the first section of the book, the author addresses the needs of the skin, explaining the functions and structure of the epidermis and the care necessary for her health, to cleanse, moisturize and protect her from chemical, physical and environmental aggressions.
Then there is a chapter in which the cosmetic formulations and the ingredients that make up creams and detergents are analyzed, with indications on how to choose a good cosmetic and disentangle between the various eco-bio certifications.
At the end of this section the author explains in detail what it is and how Slow Cosmétique was born and why it is important for our health and the environment to rediscover the simple pleasure of cosmetics made of natural and unrefined ingredients.
In the second part of the book we find numerous recipes for everyone to take care of the skin of the face and body and hair. In the chapter dedicated to cleanliness we discover to cleanse the skin enough of simple clay and find recipes to make masks, scrubs and make-up removers for deeper cleaning. Then we find a chapter on the advice and recipes based on vegetable oils and butters, beeswax, honey, Aloe gel to hydrate and protect the face, lips and body .
There is no shortage of indications and recipes to make products to counteract small imperfections such as wrinkles, cellulite, boils, dark circles, dandruff as well as exercises to firm and strengthen the muscles of the face .
Finally we find slow recipes to make deodorants and natural perfumes with essential oils and an essential make-up that includes powders, eye shadows and colored lip balms.
A recipe from the book: fondant balm for the body
Like all the recipes in the book, this one is also characterized by simplicity: few ingredients, all natural, to start consuming less and better, in the style of Slow Cosmétique.
Ingredients
> 4 tablespoons of shea butter
> 4 tablespoons of coconut oil
> 2 tablespoons of calendula vegetable oil
> 20 drops of essential oil of your choice
Method
Melt the oils in a bain-marie. Once the mixture is melted and homogeneous, remove it from the heat. Mix with a spatula and, once cooled, add 20 drops of essential oils of your choice to perfume: sweet orange, ylang ylang, lemon, lavender, geranium, damask rose, neroli, petit grain, mandarin or niaouli. You can divide the 20 drops among the various essential oils on the list.
Leave to rest for twenty-four hours in the refrigerator, then store for two months at room temperature in a jar or in an airtight jar, away from air and light.
When you need to use the conditioner, melt a nut on the skin, massaging the body.
