The Book of Natural Beauty

All my secrets, in thirty days of simple rituals.

After years of studying pharmacology, researching on plant medicines and developing skincare products in a laboratory... I would like to share all of my secrets on skincare and creating true beauty from the inside out.

By making the products myself, I learned that most of what we buy — a cream, a serum, however expensive — is between seventy and ninety percent water. That a serum is often a cream with more water added. That an oil costing one euro to make is sold for sixty.

So, I stopped buying almost all of it. I learned about the skin. I studied how to nourish it. And my skin has never been better than it is now.

Thirty days, to explore your skin through the 5 senses

Touch, taste, smell, sound and sight... We will start a journey into the skin beginning at the surface of you, with your own hands on your own skin, and work inward.

The book is divided into 30 small chapters, with each day an offering. One thing to know — the physiology, the plant, the tradition behind it. One thing to do — ten or fifteen minutes, almost nothing to buy. One thing to notice.

What is inside

• 95 designed pages, with my own photographs
• 30 daily practices, one per day
• How to make your own facial oil, and which oils suit which skin
• The herb jar I actually keep at home
• A full safety guide to essential oils — dilutions, phototoxicity, pregnancy
• Space to write at the end of each of the five parts

What this is not

It is not a treatment for a skin condition, and it is not a diet.

About me

Lina Merkscha — MSc Pharmaceutical Research, author of three cookbooks, former cosmetic chemist, yoga teacher. I create food and products inspired by the traditional medicines of the world and by my Japanese ancestral roots.

Format: a 95-page PDF, downloaded immediately after purchase. Reads on a phone, tablet or computer, and prints well at home.