Handmade Soap Book

Making your own soap is fun, easy, and rewarding. In this introductory guide, Susan Miller Cavitch shows you how to craft your own all-natural, wonderfully smelling soaps. Illustrated directions take you through the whole process, from buying supplies to cutting the final bars. With easy-to-follow recipes that range from classics like oatmeal and honey soap to more adventurous combinations using goat milk and borage, you’ll be inspired to make uniquely personal soaps that are gentle on your skin and a pleasure for your nose.

Start making soap the all-natural way-the essential beginner's guide. Are you an aspiring "soaper" not sure which soap making books to start with? The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners will help you take the plunge This complete beginner's guide to cold-processed soap making shows you the basics, so you can get creative with natural, healthy ingredients-and get squeaky clean, too. Unlike other soap making books, The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners starts from scratch with colorants and fragrances both free of artificial ingredients. Discover how to make basic bars, Castile soap, shampoo bars, salt soaps, milk soaps, and more. You'll even find nut-free and vegan recipes. This natural choice in soap making books includes: Soap making primer-Learn cold-processed soap making with illustrated step-by-step tutorials, safety guidelines, and troubleshooting tips. All-natural ingredients-Make luxurious, nourishing soaps using essential oils, clays, and other natural elements. Over 55 recipes-Create specialty bars including Mulled Wine Soap, Allergy Relief Bar, and other recipes you won't find in other soap making books. Of all the soap making books, this one will soon get you started "soaping"-with a splash

The master soap maker shares her methods for creating sumptuous, all-natural skin care products with no special equipment needed. In a world filled with pollution, the products we use on our bodies ought to offer cleansing—not chemicals. This book shows you how to create your own soaps and bathtime luxuries using only natural ingredients and common kitchen equipment. These products make the perfect gift for family, friends, kids, and grown-ups. And they’re an ideal gift for yourself as well. This book features a huge range of tempting ingredients, such as peach, peppermint, ylang ylang, cinnamon and chocolate. It includes recipes for shampoo bars, body splashes and bath creams. The easy-to-follow recipes and luscious photography will be an inspiration to anyone who cares about what they put on their skin.

Fire Light, Forest Garden, Gentlemen Farmer, Lemon Verbena, Oat and Wheat Bran--this is but a sampling of the thirty wonderful recipes you'll find in this guide to making soap. History, chemistry, equipment, plants, and oils--everything you need to know to create your own all-natural, handcrafted, herbal, aromatherapy, and floral soaps.

The pure luxury of soaps made with coconut butter, almond oil, aloe vera, oatmeal, and green tea is one of life’s little pleasures. And with the help of Anne-Marie Faiola, author of Soap Crafting and Milk Soaps, it’s easy to make luscious, all-natural soaps right in your own kitchen. This collection of 32 recipes ranges from simple castile bars to intricate swirls, embeds, and marbled and layered looks. Begin with a combination of skin-nourishing oils and then add blueberry puree, dandelion-infused water, almond milk, coffee grounds, mango and avocado butters, black tea, or other delicious ingredients — and then scent your soap with pure essential oils. Step-by-step photography guides you through every stage of cold-process soapmaking.

Make your own custom-tailored and perfectly formed cold-process soaps! Learn how to use milk jugs and yogurt containers for molds, and how coffee, avocado, and even beer can add unique dimensions to your creations. This encouraging introduction to the art of soapmaking makes it simple to master the techniques you need to safely and easily produce your own enticingly fragrant soaps.

From nourishing oat soap bars to impressive rosebud soap cakes and fun soaps for kids, this book will inspire you to make beautiful handmade soap without all the chemicals found in commercial products. Sarah shows you how to master the two key techniques of handmade soapmaking - the traditional Cold-Process method and the fast and fun Melt-and-Pour method and then demonstrates how to use these techniques to make fabulous soaps, shampoo bars, homemade washing powder and even dishwasher soap bombs. Step-by-step photography and the author's insightful advice from years of experience teaching soap-making makes every project achievable, guiding you effortlessly from start to finish. Packed with handy tips and an easy, approachable style, this is a beautiful book filled with practical projects so that anyone, including children, can make a variety of soaps they will be proud to use, display and give away

"A DIY guide to making homemade soap"--