Ames-Lewis, Francis and Rogers, Mary, eds. Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art. London, 1998. 

Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. London, 1970.

An Herbal, 1525. Also known as Banckes' Herbal. Author unknown, published 1525. Facsimile & transcripted edition ed. by Larkey & Pyles. (NY: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1941)

Arano, Luis Cogliati, ed. The Medieval Health Handbook (Tacuinum Sanitatis), (NY, George Braziller, 1976) from 14th century illuminations.

Booth, Nancy. Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes. (Pownal, VT: Storey, 1997)

Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper's Complete Herbal. Published by W. Foulsham & Co, New York. ISBN: 0-572-00203-3.

Culpeper, Nicholas. The English Physician, 1657. (Made available on the Web by the Yale Medical School: http://www.med.yale.edu/library/historical/culpeper/culpeper.htm. Includes the information usually published as the Herbal, plus a number of recipes supposedly taken from the Royal College of Physicians.

Dioscorides Pedanius, of Anazarbos. The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides: illustrated by a Byzantine, A. D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A. D. 1655; edited and first printed, A. D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.

Forme of Cury, online version: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/ 

Gerarde, John.  The Herball Or Generall Historie of Plantes Gathered by John Gerarde of London, Master of Chirurgerie. Imprinted in London by John Norton, 1597. (Digital copy https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753000817749#page/n0/mode/2up)

Gerard, John. Leaves from Gerard's Herball: The History of Plants.  (Senate Publishing, 1994). (Abridged version) Arranged for garden lovers. Edited by Marcus Woodward (Peter Smith, 1990). ISBN: 0844609714 (also available from Dover in paperback, ISBN: 0486223434). Note: any Gerard's Herbal edited by Woodward is actually an abridgement.

Hildegarde of Bingen. Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: the complete English translation of her classic work on Health and Healing. Trans. from the Latin by Patricia Throop. (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts, 1998). ISBN 0-89281-661-9

Hill, Thomas. The Gardener's Labyrinth: The first English Gardening Book]. ed. Richard Mabey. (NY: Oxford University Press, 1987) ISBN: 0-19-217763-X. Illustrated with reproductions of woodcuts & paintings from a wide variety of sources.

Markham, Gervase. The English Housewife: containing the inward and outward virtues which ought to be in a complete woman..., Chapter III: "Of distillations and their virtues, and of perfuming." first printed 1615. Published 1986 by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal; edited by Michael R. Best. ISBN: 0-7735-0582-2.

Le Menagier de Paris: A Medieval Home Companion. Housekeeping in the fourteenth century. Trans. & edited by Tania Bayard. (NY: HarperCollins, 1991) Translation of cookbook sections by Janet Hinson: http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html 

Nostradamus, The Elixirs of Nostradamus: Nostradamus' original recipes for elixirs, scented water, beauty potions and sweetmeats. edited by Knut Boeser. (Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1996) ISBN: 1-55921-155-5

"De Ornatu Mulierum /On Women's Cosmetics." in The Trotula : A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine . edited and translated by Monica H. Green. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2001)>

Parkinson, John. A Garden of Pleasant Flowers: Paradisi in Sole. (NY: Dover Publications, 1991.) ISBN: 048626758X

Pepys 1047, in Stere htt Well: Medieval Recipes and Remedies from a manuscript in Samuel Pepys's Library. Modern English version by G.A.J. Hodgett. (Adelaide: Mary Martin Books, s.d.)

Plat, Hugh. Delightes for Ladies. 1594. (Herrin, Ill., Trovillion Private Press, 1942) Note: here are a selection of rosewater recipes from it.

Rohde, Eleanour Sinclair. The Old English Herbals. Release Date: September 6, 2010 [EBook #33654] / Language: English / Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 (Project Gutenberg).

Strabo, Walafrid. Hortulus. Translated by Raef Payne. Commentary by Wilfrid Blunt. (Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, 1966)

Tusser, Thomas. His Good Points of Husbandry, "Of Herbs and Flowers." 1557. Published 1931 by Country Life Limited, London; edited by Dorothy Hartley.