Making Natural Liquid Soaps: Herbal Shower Gels, Conditioning Shampoos, Moisturizing Hand Soaps (Paperback)

Making Natural Liquid Soaps

Making Natural Liquid Soaps: Herbal Shower Gels / Conditioning Shampoos / Moisturizing Hand Soaps

Using a simple double-boiler technique, readers will make elegant and soothing liquid soaps. Dozens of recipes using oils, herbs, and other natural ingredients to create hand soaps, shower gels, bubble baths, conditioning shampoos and even baby and pet shampoos.

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Creating Liquid Soaps That Soothe! Finally, a book on making liquid soaps at home! Let expert soapmaker Catherine Failor introduce you to the luxurious world of all-natural liquid soaps — the easy way. Using a simple double-boiler technique, you can create inexpensive moisturizing hand soaps, revitalizing shampoos, invigorating shower gels, soothing bubble baths, and much more. And all tailored to your skin type, to your hair’s needs, or even to your mood! Discover how easy it is to master this special hot-process soapmaking technique and explore the art of this rewarding craft. Using simple, pure ingredients, such as cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba, you can create liquid (more…)

Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Basics) (Spiral-bound)

Basic Soap Making

Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Basics)

This book features hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photographs that illustrate exactly how to make cold-process soap. It contains instructions on molding soap, cutting bars, creating original recipes, packaging gifts, and more. It includes a chapter on constructing a soap mold, liner, and cutter at home. Readers will learn the basic four-oil soap recipe, which can then be enhanced with additives such as oatmeal, fragrance oils, colored swirls, two-tone nuggets, and moisturizing butters.

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Smart Soapmaking: The Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably, or How to Make Luxurious Handcrafted Soaps for Family, Friends, and Yourself (Paperback)

Smart Soapmaking

Smart Soapmaking: The Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably, or How to Make Luxurious Handcrafted Soaps for Family, Friends, and Yourself

Review

A great book for beginners, with clear and easy instructions. — Anne-Marie Faiola, Bramble Berry Inc., Bellingham, WashingtonAs fun as it is informative, Smart Soapmaking is a must for anyone who would like to try this craft. –Library Bookwatch (Midwest Book Review), Jan. 2007Should become THE book for soapmaking. . . . Has a wonderful common sense approach that is SO long overdue. — Susan Kennedy, Oregon Trail Soaps, Rogue River, OregonSmart it is . . . . A simple, no-nonsense book that cuts through the curmudgery of stifling soap bibles like no other. — Shellie Humphries, Harstine Island, WashingtonThe simplest, most delightful book on soapmaking. . . . I read it in two days and was ready to buy soapmaking supplies –Theresa Powers, Joyous Home, Castle Rock, ColoradoWay overdue. . . . A gift of common sense caution, proven methods, tried-and-true shortcuts, and some excellent recipes as well. — Deb Petersen, Shepherd’s Soap Co., Shelton, WashingtonWr (more…)

Milk Soapmaking

Milk Soapmaking

Milk Soapmaking: The Smart and Simple Guide to Making Lovely Milk Soap From Cow Milk, Goat Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Coconut Milk, or Any Other Animal or Plant MilkMilk Soapmaking: The Smart and Simple Guide to Making Lovely Milk Soap From Cow Milk, Goat Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Coconut Milk, or Any Other Animal or Plant Milk (Paperback)

Beautiful in its simplicity. . . . A definitive book for experienced as well as beginning milk soapers. –Rebekah Bailey, The Original Soap Dish, South Whitley, Indiana

An easy to read and understand book that will take the mystery out of milk-based soapmaking.

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