Shopping for Beauty Books
March 21, 2006 by Christina Jones
Filed under Beauty, Beauty Books, Save Money, Skin Care
My husband surprised me the other day with a gift certificate for my second favorite thing to buy – new books! So I spent a couple hours at the bookstore yesterday looking at some of the new offerings in the realm of beauty books and ran across the new book by dermatologist Dr. Leslie Baumann, The Skin Type Solution : A Revolutionary Guide to Your Best Skin Ever. Dr. Baumann categorizes your skin with a good bit more detail than you are probably accustomed to, and then tells you just what you need to do to take care of it. She types your skin with these questions, and then from your answers you will fall in to one of 16 different categories:
- Is your skin oily or dry?
- Is it sensitive or resistant?
- Do you see dark patches on your face or uneven skin tone, or not?
- Have you developed or are you likely to develop wrinkles?
Once you have pinned down your skin type, Dr. Baumann gives you an exact regimen to follow for daily care, and tells you exactly which products will perform best on your skin. The Skin Type Solution is available at Amazon.com for 40% off the regular price ($22), at $13.20.
I also found this interesting blurb this morning in an article written about The Skin Type Solution:
The average woman owns at least $500 worth of cosmetic products. Baumann said that the price of your skin cream is not at all what matters. The most important factor is whether it’s the right product for your skin.
That gets me to thinking what my collection of skin care is worth. I am pretty sure it goes waaaaaaaay over $500, but likely not the things I actually use. How much do you think yours is worth?
If that book really works I should get it as my skin is giving me some hard times. Actually my online bookstore owes be one for free after I ordered a diy beaty book that never came. I have to check if I can get it through them. Maybe you know about a good diy book too?
I did see one book about homemade beauty treatments that looked good. I will see if I can find it and post about it. There was a whole stack of books I would have loved to have had, but alas, I only had $25 to spend!
I have read the reviews at Amazon about Dr. Baumann’s book, and they are good, but I have no first hand knowledge about this one. I haven’t posted yet about the book I actually bought, because I am no where near in to it enough to give it my thoughts yet.
I recently received this book for review, and I’ve got to say I’m not sure about it. I mean, I trust bauman, and I’m sure her regimines work…but it is really complicated. And I consider myself to know more than most about the ingredients in my beauty products. Plus, it made me really paranoid, as a beauty reviewer, that I should never let anything foreign and non-dermatologist approved touch my skin. Just going through the products that are part of my daily regimine and trying to compare the ingredients to those she says I should use or not use took forever. Plus, I feel like the quiz is kind of subjective. you could so easily put yourself in a different category. I feel there are some aspects of skincare that can’t be evaluated in a book. I feel bad, because I’m sure she works wonders and a visit with her would be well worth it, I’m just not sure you can get the same benefit from the book.
Hi Andrea – you know, that it looked a little complicated is one of the reasons why I didn’t choose to buy that book. I looked at it for a good little bit, and decided that about only about 1/16th of the book would apply to me anyway. I bet though, once you get your skin type narrowed down, there is a lot of good information for you in it. I am not writing it off just yet, but might wait for the paperback.
Thanks so much for reading, I am going to hop over to your site now and check it out – it looks fabulous on a first look!