In a culture that idealizes youthful looks and encourages elaborate makeovers or even surgery to achieve them, the idea of natural beauty is often all but ignored. But true beauty is within the reach anyone of any age, without submitting to needles or knives. The secret is nurturing beauty from the inside as well as on the surface, caring for both body and soul in a way that will naturally result in the smooth skin and radiant glow of good health - whether one is eighteen or eighty! Susan West Kurz explains how skin reflects and reacts to our entire being - physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual. She outlines a series of viable lifestyle changes and holistic treatments that can dramatically improve appearance in a single month and help to achieve lasting, authentic beauty. Her landmark programme is grounded in Dr. Hauschka's key principles: repairing skin with biodynamically-grown healing plants and aligning the body with its natural rhythms through meditation, diet, and exercise. The result is healthy, radiant skin, a sense of peace and well-being and even weight loss. Based on decades of research, Awakening Beauty shares the regimen required for maintaining and enhancing your natural beauty with lasting results. Awakening Beauty, The Dr. Hauschka Way features 9 chapters of facts, tips and recommendations for changing your lifestyle and improving your inner and outer beauty: exercises for reducing stress and maximizing energy; guidelines for restoring the skin's vitality and treating specific conditions with medicinal plants; a discussion of the five skin types: oily, dry, sensitive, ageing and normal; gentle, easy home treatments for cleansing, toning, moisturizing and night care; an explanation of the link between radiant skin, healthy digestion and kidney function and a suggested routine for proper care; tips on supporting healthy skin care through spiritual awareness and inner strength; a thirty-day program of prescriptive and synergistic suggestions for diet, fitness and skin therapy; and easy to follow recipes featuring foods that support the Dr. Hauschka programme for healthy skin.