| The simple reality of mixing your own beauty | | | | outwardly. We all have the power to heal ourselves |
| products from fresh ingredient puts you in touch with | | | | and let our beauty shin through for all to feel and |
| the natural world and gives you a richer, more | | | | see. It is our belief and hope that the information in |
| intimate knowledge of the ingredients. Cutting the | | | | this guide will help you guide that power, enabling you |
| avocado, preparing the other ingredients, and then | | | | to live a longer life, brimming natural health, energy, |
| putting them on your face, is an intensely personal | | | | happiness and effortless beauty. Ayurveda offers a |
| activity in which you interact with the ingredients in | | | | liberating approach to beauty, one that serves the |
| an intimate way--and it is a hugely different | | | | needs of women of different ages and different |
| experience from buying something in a plastic bottle. | | | | natural gifts. |
| The simple act of applying a rich oil to your skin and | | | | At the beginning of her career, Sophia Loren was told |
| running your hands over your own body during | | | | that her mouth was too large, her nose too long, her |
| self-massage gives you a deeper knowledge and | | | | chin and lips too broad--but that still the sum of her |
| appreciation of yourself. | | | | parts were "somehow beautiful." She never fit the |
| In this program I have combined my own personal | | | | current standard of beauty, and now that she is a |
| experiences and those of my patients, along to | | | | woman "of a certain age," she has achieved yet |
| present Ayurveda's beauty secrets in a clear, | | | | another kind of beauty that is very different from |
| streamlined, useful form. I show you how to | | | | her youthful appeal. In her book Women and Beauty, |
| integrate Ayurveda into your everyday life and use it | | | | Loren points out that whereas the beauty of youth |
| safely and effectively to nurture your inner self and | | | | is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and |
| cultivate outer beauty. | | | | sophisticated, richer and more complex. In her book |
| Ayurveda is a complete and holistic system that | | | | she shares with us her greatest beauty secret: her |
| recognizes that each person is a unique individual, | | | | unfailing self-confidence. "If you can use your mind as |
| with a mind, body, and spirit that are intertwined. | | | | well as you use a powder puff," she writes, "you will |
| Outer beauty is a reflection of inner beauty, and a | | | | become more truly beautiful." Her message and that |
| beauty regimen is not something you do for a half | | | | of Ayurveda is: You can attain beauty because |
| hour in your bathroom; it's something you practice | | | | beauty is already inside you. |
| twenty-four hours, every day, inwardly and | | | | |