References

Facts

• Henriette’s Herbal Homepage Facts about herbs both for medicine and culinary purposes.
• Shenet Swedish site with heaps of information on how to make your own cosmetics, plus a forum where one can ask around.

Forums

• Long hair community Forum that mostly focuses on hair, but a lot of the discussions are about home made or all natural ways of treating your hair
• Makingcosmetics.com American web shop that that also has a forum and recipes on a quite advanced level

• Shenet

Recipes

• Long hair community
• Makingcosmetics.com

• Shenet

• Spa Index Has some easy, nice recipes for everything from insect repellant to lip glosses

Webshops

• Crearome Swedish webshop for raw material. Also has some recipes.
• Kosmetische Rohstoffe German webshop for raw material. I order from them a lot, it’s cheap and quick service.
• Makingcosmetics.com
• Pieni tuoksukauppa Finnish webshop. Focuses on essential and aromatic oils, but sell other raw material as well.
• Handmade natural soaps

Literature

• Rita Stiens: The truth about cosmethics

German author Rita Stiens writes about the cosmetic industry. The book also includes a list of the most common ingredients that can be found in comsetic products, and rates them from to