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    Wild Wisdom

    By Jan Norn

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    About this ebook

    Medicinal Plants from the Canadian Wilderness.
    A do-it-yourself guide to making health and beauty aids from wild plants.
    Combines old First Nations wisdom with new medical analysis. The book offers many recipes using ingredients that are free for the picking. Caress your skin with a cream made from fireweed, or tempt your kids with wild strawberry toothpaste. Learn more...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJan Norn
    Release dateOct 6, 2010
    ISBN9780973109924
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    Wild Wisdom
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    Jan Norn

    Jan was the youngest of seven children, raised on a farm in New Zealand. She has been making her own cosmetics and remedies since she was old enough to realize what fun it was, so has more than sixty years worth of safe recipes and hints to share. On coming to Canada about fifty years ago, Jan married, raised a family in northern B.C. and now lives in the Kootenays in the sunny, southern mountains. It was the fierce New Zealand sun that sparked her interest in skin care, an interest that has continued over the years, while teaching, raising five children and spending every possible minute outdoors, riding, hiking and prospecting with husband Dan, a third-generation placer gold miner. In spite of all this exposure to the elements, and 70+ busy years, her skin still fits her, so she knows that her remedies work It seems that men as well as women are looking for ways to improve their health and (literally) to save their skins. They just don’t know where to start. The ‘Kitchen Cosmetics’ series can help with that. Jan is working on a series of do-it-yourself books, covering skin care for women, men, teens and the very young, as well as recipes using native Canadian plants. Her goal? To help folks to smile more and become healthier. Are her recipes and ideas simple? Yes. Are they effective? Definitely (if they can keep seventy-year-old skin in shape, think what they can do for some gorgeous young person...)

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