Catherine Bardey
Autor de Secrets of the Spas: Pamper and Vitalize Yourself at Home (Life's Little Luxuries)
Sobre El Autor
Catherine Bardey was a stylist for Elle, New York and French Vogue. She lives in New York City.
Obras de Catherine Bardey
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Bardey, Catherine
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1963
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Miembros
- 318
- Popularidad
- #74,348
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 19
- Idiomas
- 4
I can't imagine ever having time to do all that is recommended here. Soaking and treating the hands (10-20 min.), facials (10-30 min.), body wraps (20-30 min.), soak in the tub each day (20-30 min.), and so on. That is for the actual body treatments, not the time required to mix the ingredients for them and clean up after.
I have never been to a spa, although this book makes it sound more inviting to me than it has before. I may try a recipe here and there if I ever have a slow weekend, and I might try a couple of them to make for Christmas gifts. In other words, I will keep this book for reference as a symbol of hope that life will slow down enough to do some of these pampering things for myself. Or, perhaps I will save up and go to a spa one day.
Included are recipes for the body outside, a few for the body inside (drinks, salads), lots of pages of terms for spa treatments (interesting), pages of actual spas to go to, places to buy ingredients and a nice glossary of essential oils and their properties for health, as well as some of the dangers.… (más)