The Health & Beauty Handbook

The Health & Beauty Handbook

by Susan Kerr

This book is packed with 185 pages of information on head-to-toe beauty care. A lot of the tips provided by Susan Kerr are commonsense. Ms. Kerr has a lot of experience in beauty marketing for top-name cosmetic companies in Britain and the USA. She also spent time as the Guest Beauty Editor for Mademoiselle magazine.

Kerr actually provides a lot of hair care information in her book. In Chapter 5 she starts with a ten step self-assessment hair profile. If you take a pen and pad of paper you can work through her 10 steps to analyze your personal hair profile. She also explains standard hair terms such as keratin, follicles and sebum. She also explains the Rapunzel effect of why some women can grow hair to their waists and others can't grow hair past their shoulders. I am not sure that I totally agree with her explanation since I used to have that problem and got past it. She does provide an interesting theory.

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Kerr provides good basic shampooing information although once again I don't agree with her budget shampoo tip to dilute shampoo with water. I tried her tip with my Aveda Blue Malva shampoo and it was not a good experience. Most hair experts do not concur with this belief.

I think this book has some good basic and key information on hair and beauty care. However, I caution you to make your own decisions and follow your own best interests when reading this book.

I did really like her trichologist's trick regarding scalp cleansing. I have always believed her theory about a clean scalp to be very true. I also liked her Living For Hair tip box.

I think you will find a lot of information about hair care that you will never see in any other hair or beauty books. That alone was worth the price of the book for me. I am certainly going to evaluate a lot of Kerr's tips, tricks and hair information.

Enjoy!

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Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Teach Yourself (August 1, 1997)
ISBN: 0844230545