There is nothing new under the sun in this book. I did not finish it.

I received this book as an ARC from the publisher and NetGalley.

There is good info here but it may not be anything new or revolutionary to you, depending on how much research you've previously done.

This book was just what I was looking for, however, due to a glitch which replaced some letters with different letters, the copy was unreadable. I'd love to receive a copy I could actually read. Tried the publisher notes but got no response.

This is a good book for reference guide for beauty tips and taking care of ones body and health. This book is filled with information and recommendations. However, this is not a holy grail book or a miracle guide for ageless beauty and for people who are again. So don't expect too much, this book is to lead you to the right path.

I can’t think of anyone I would recommend this book to. Some of the information about health, nutrition, and hair care is helpful, but there are much better books on these topics. This book is poorly written, poorly edited, and too disorganized to be very helpful. There are also factual inaccuracies. The author is not a scientist or health care provider, and it is clear that she is writing about topics she doesn’t understand very well.

I found the author’s tone too casual and was irritated by her frequent use of exclamation points. The book reads like a sloppy compilation of blog posts.

I did find some of the information on hair and on toxic chemicals helpful, but the author does not strike me as a reliable source of information given some of the inaccuracies I spotted. Her recommendations for treatments such as coffee enemas and bee venom therapy did not inspire confidence.

I did not try any of the recipes provided.

Those who already have some familiarity with natural healthcare and leading a holistic lifestyle are unlikely to learn much from this book, and those who are unfamiliar with these topics would be better off turning to more reliable sources.

I was provided an ARC through NetGalley that I volunteered to review.

This book is a holistic approach to wellness. It's not about beauty regimes and products, but about the causes for hair loss, inflammation, and even leaky gut! She also addresses how imbalances in our hormones can wreak havoc on our bodies and internal systems. In The Ageless Beauty Grail you’ll get remedies, info on essentials oils, foods that heal, and much more!

You will get a deeper understanding of ingredients in beauty products and what to avoid. Bloom also provides recipes for natural deodorant, toothpaste, face masks, home cleaners, and even air fresheners! I have read, from many different sources, that hormonal imbalances and inflammation in our bodies can cause all sorts of health problems. So, there is good information in this book. That being said, I'm no beauty expert, and with any holistic approach to wellness, it is important to do your own research and seek information from multiple sources.

The Ageless Beauty Grail by Sandra Bloom is an summary of information that the author has compiled for her book. The information was easy to read and covered a variety of subjects. She states in the beginning of the book that this information was gathered and compiled for a one-stop place to read this about this information. I found a few topics interesting and informative. Her writing style fell short for me and I found some things to be a bit repetitive. The info would have been much better handled in a blog series rather than in this book form. It needs some better formatting and an editors touch to be a better book.

I read through this book and found that some good advice is here throughout the book . The book is mainly a collection of information the author got from websites so much of what is here is already well known. There are some beauty facts here that outnumber techniques. I did not find much here that is useful to my beauty routine or that I already knew.

I'm not sure there's much I can add to the other reviews that have been left on this book. I agree with much of what was said but if you're a wise reader you will pick and choose which things you will try from Ms Bloom's book and probably explore the ideas within further online. I wouldn't say I did not enjoy the book, but neither would I rush out to buy a paper copy. I am grateful though for the opportunity to have reviewed the book and while some of the ideas may appear whacky, there is something for most women in the book.

The Ageless Beauty Grail is a new age beauty book that is filled with opinion and not medical facts. That is not to say it is all bad advice, it is not. There are some good tips in this book. However, it is the author's point of view on how to take care of oneself, which means that the claims have no fact or clinical studies behind them, just anecdotal information.

And I cannot stress this part enough: she does not unlock any secrets. The stuff that does work is all known information. Some of it may even be harmful if you try it, so please talk to a doctor before you try some of these things!

But as I said before, she does have some good information in the book and it is not filled with a lot of medical jargon so it is easy to read in that aspect.

Take it like every other "health" book on the shelf that promises to unlock the secret to [beauty, youth, health, etc.] and understand that you are reading an opinion, not fact.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an advanced copy to read. All opinions are my own.

I'm sorry to give a one star review, but Goodreads' star rating says 1 star is "didn't like it" and that accurately reflects my feelings about this book. I read the entire thing in order to give it an honest review, and I really had to force myself to get through it all.

This is the kind of self published book that gives self published books such a bad rap. I wish the best for the author, but I cannot recommend the book. It is a disjointed bunch of information gathered from the author's favorite web sites (primarily sites like Paleo Mom and Dr. Axe) in her own quest to heal her numerous health issues. She admits that she still suffers with these issues, while alternately setting herself up as an expert who has healed herself. In addition, it has numerous typos and grammatical errors.

The book is supposed to give advice for "ageless beauty" but almost all of it has to do with diseases like thyroid disease and issues like gut health. These are important issues, but I was hoping for actual advice on aging and beauty. She is very focused on her own thinning hair and how to reverse that, but otherwise there is almost no beauty information at all other than the fact that I suppose once you're healthy again you'll look better.

In addition, the author is a woman who has the money to spend months at a time in U.S. alternative health clinics and to buy a house near an ocean in Europe to improve her health. She's a former model who is younger than I am and I think I actually look younger than she does (though I'll grant from looking her up on Instagram that she has a great figure). I just don't relate to her as someone who has anything of use to me regarding beauty and aging tips, which is what I wanted the book for.

Bonus sections at the end provide a few food recipes with stock photographs and a section on essential oils with a few recipes for things like EO concoctions for various skin and hair types, but this information can be found easily online. Also, some of these recipes are terrible. Her "Henna Hair Growth Recipe" calls for mixing 250 ml of Argon oil with 5 cups (!!!) of henna powder. You are supposed to heat this mixture, cool it, and store it in a glass bottle, then apply it a few times a week. Never does she mention that henna will permanently dye gray or blonde hair bright red and the mixture will quickly go bad even with refrigeration.

There is quite a lot of information that Bloom has amassed in her own quest to heal herself. Some of this may be helpful for other people struggling with similar mysterious health issues, but she also seems to be under the impression that she has almost all of them (Lyme Disease, thyroid disease, adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome...). She also pretty much follows every alternative health protocol out there, from coffee enemas (which she admits put her in the hospital but she still recommends) to paleo diets to all of kinds of supplements. I take supplements myself but a lot of what she suggests are beyond what I'd be comfortable taking based on the advice of a random chronically ill woman in Belgium who's read a lot on the internet.

I feel really guilty being so negative, but I try my best to give honest reviews that will help other readers determine if books will be a good fit for them. This was not a good fit for me. Your mileage may vary.

I read a digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

I received the Kindle version of this book in exchange for an honest review. While the title and subtitle suggest much more, the book itself offers very little new information, and some incorrect information. As a clinical chemist and the author of many health books including books on autoimmune and thyroid disorders, I felt that the author had good intentions and wanted to convey a great deal of information that she had gleaned from a variety of websites. However, her lack of understanding of the subject material made for a difficult read.

For instance she writes that amino acids are another name for proteins, that leaky gut syndrome is a new subject that doctors wouldn't understand, refers to lupus without differentiating the various lupus disorders and generalizes nanoparticles as one new entity. She also describes GMOs as new when they've been around for more than 20 years.

Most of the information isn't harmful although she suggests taking iron supplements for hair when they've been linked to stomach cancer and have even been removed from many multivitamins. She also advocates coffee enemas, apitherapy and other controversial therapies.
The many grammar and spelling mistakes are also a drawback.

She does a good job of describing the harmful chemicals in many cosmetic products and household cleaners, and she explains the effects of stress well. However, if she'd included a description of stress reduction techniques that are effective, this topic would have been more helpful.

Very informative for people new to holistic living while also a good reminder for those already on the journey to living holistically. The author provides useful information not only on the many causes of hair loss, but the dangerous side effects of the chemicals we are putting in and on our bodies, consequences of poor eating habits, and essential functions such as sleep and exercise. Importantly, she provides helpful tips on how to incorporate healthy habits into our lives.

I found the information to be very superficial and often without foundation. Although Sandra says "studies" have found there is no link to the science. I was most interested to see the recipes for natural cleaning and personal health but there is nothing new here. I appreciate the time it took to write this book and am happy for Sandra's successful journey with her personal health but I don't find information in the book to be credible or useful.

This book is a mishmash of many topics related to holistic health. The title is good and I expected that the book would be as well, but I was disappointed. The author quoted many health experts I was familiar with but did not add anything to what they had already said in a better way. Some of her suggestions are well-grounded from a functional medicine perspective, but others, such as coffee enemas are not. Readers would do better with a different book.

A bit too much of a promotional work for my tastes, although others may be to the contrary and welcome such an approach.

This book has a lot of great advice about health topics, which are presented in short, easily-digestible snippets. The author obviously has done their research, and has had practical experience implementing her own advice. However, the way the book is arranged almost seems like a bunch of blog posts that were randomly aggregated into a book -- I did not see the logic in the order and organization of the different sections, and some of the points the author touched upon seemed to be repetitive. Overall, I loved the content of the book, but I did not find the way it was organized to be helpful.

The Ageless Beauty Grail

Thank you to NetGalley for granting a free digital copy of The Ageless Beauty Grailby Sandra Bloom. It was published Cyprus in 2017. Ms. Bloom was wise to include the disclaimer that the information in this book is not intended to replace your physician’s advice. She wrote the book to share things she has learned her own personal experiences.

The Ageless Beauty Grail has some valuable health-related information, and methods for detoxifying your home. At the same time, it contains some information that is contradictory to established and proven public health recommendations, as well as some claims are not scientifically proven.

It is poorly written with a lot of grammatical errors, misused and misspelled words. The text lacks consistency, as it frequently switches back and forth between British English and American English. In some places Bloom makes an effort to sound professional, yet in other places she sounds like a teenager on social media, even including the text version of a smiley face.

What Makes This Book Reviewer Grumpy?

Far too many things to list here. Consequently, as a master’s level public health educator, I cannot recommend this book.

The Ageless Beauty Grail by Sandra Bloom is a very comprehensive book that covers many aspects of aging. The author tackles the issues of hormones, inflammation, and energy levels.

The author is not a health professional. She is a blogger who has had various health issues and has found her path to health by living as holistically as possible. She cites a number of doctors, studies, and other bloggers to support her claims.

The book is well-written and covers a wide-range of health concerns. This will be a popular read for people who embrace the holistic/naturopathic way to wellness as well as advice from experts such as Dr. Axe and Gwyneth Paltrow to name a few.

I received an advanced reader e-copy from NetGalley and Universal Brands Publishing for an unbiased review.

I learned a great deal by reading this book. I had known about much of what Sandra Bloom wrote but it certainly brought more to my attention. This is about health and the damage we do to our bodies by eating or using many products and food on the market. It was very interesting to say the least. Well done.