The recipe for radiance : discover beauty's best-kept secrets in your kitchen / Alexis Wolfer ; photography by Evan Sung.

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Want to know the secret to growing gorgeous hair or how your favorite celebrities have such flawless skin? Introducing the power of food into your beauty routine in a whole new way, you'll uncover the recipes that promote beauty from within (with beauty-boosting foods you'll salivate for!) as well as topical DIY beauty recipes (for facial masks, body scrubs, and more that are, well, good enough to eat -- literally!).

Dubbed the "Female Beauty MacGyver" by Access Hollywood, Alexis Wolfer shares with you 131 easy, all-natural, affordable, and effective recipes that feed your beauty. Combining the best recipes from her personal archives with DIY beauty secrets and food recipes shared with her by chefs, beauty editors, and celebrities (including Kristen Chenoweth, Brooklyn Decker, Vanessa Williams, Molly Sims, Byrdie Bell, Donna Karan, and more), The Recipe For Radiance will take you into your kitchen to discover the food-based beauty secrets even the most well-pampered women rely on to look their best.

Each chapter in The Recipe for Radiance addresses a different beauty concern -- acne, fine lines and wrinkles, brittle nails, lackluster hair, sun spots, cellulite, chapped lips, under-eye circles, and more -- giving you the inside scoop on the causes and symptoms of the most common beauty concerns along with their food-based solutions. Sample recipes include:
Strawberry + champagne serum to fight wrinkles
Avocado + oatmeal revival mask to heal dry skin
Sweet potato chips + cumin dip to even skin tone
Creamy kale and walnut salad to reduce under-eye circles
Sweet watermelon serum to soothe sunburn

Be prepared to cook yourself beautiful, all the while saving money on products and keeping your beauty routine chemical free.

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Library Journal Review

Most diet books presuppose the reader's wish to be thinner and healthier. This title goes further in promising that beauty-face, hair, skin-can be improved by foods that we not only eat, but that we can apply topically to improve our looks. Wolfer, who is high-profile thanks to her website -thebeautybean.com and appearances on TV's Access Hollywood and in People StyleWatch magazine, presents recipes for skin creams, hair conditioners, and other beauty aids as well as for tasty meals that purport to nourish from the inside. Certainly her facial masks and dry skin creams are much less expensive than commercial products and more fun as well. There is something very satisfying about whipping up a face mask in your own kitchen and it is likely that it will work just as well as a store-bought treatment. The food recipes are varied and inventive and certainly better for you than most of the "diet" items from the supermarkets. They feature lots of fresh fruits and nuts, whole grains, yogurt, vegetables, and fish. -VERDICT Fun to read, this book will certainly appeal to younger and even some of the more adventurous older women. Lavishly illustrated, this is a title that most libraries will want to consider.-Susan B. Hagloch, formerly with -Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Alexis Wolfer is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheBeautyBean.com as well as a beauty and lifestyle expert as seen on programs such as The Today Show, E! News, Access Hollywood, and The Doctors. When she's not testing out all of the newest beauty products, she's in her kitchen making her own. She currently lives in Los Angeles.