Smart Soapmaking: The Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap

Maybe you’ve made melt-and-pour soap and want to move on to something more challenging and rewarding. Maybe traditional soapmaking appeals to you, but you figure that working with lye is too difficult or dangerous. Or maybe you’re already doing it, but outmoded ideas and methods are complicating the process and slowing you down. No matter which of these fits you, you’ll find “Smart Soapmaking” practical, helpful, and refreshing. Written by a former professional soapmaker, this book explodes

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Milk Soapmaking: The Smart and Simple Guide to Making Lovely Milk Soap

Do you love the feel of milk soaps but shy away from the cost? Are you looking for a special kind of gift you can make yourself? Or do you already make soap and want to try something new? Anne L. Watson’s “Smart Soapmaking” was the first book based on modern techniques that eliminate the drudgery and guesswork from home soapmaking. Now, by popular demand, she continues her soapmaking revolution with the first practical, comprehensive book on making milk soap. Experience the rich, soothing, l

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

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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Soapmaker’s Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How

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Basic soapmaking instruction and specialty techniques like marbling, layering, and making transparent and liquid soaps.

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The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps

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An inspiring exploration of the goodness of chemical- and additive-free soap. 102,000 copies in print.

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Soap Maker’s Workshop: The Art and Craft of Natural Homemade Soap

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Artisan soap-makers Dr. Robert McDaniel and Katherine McDaniel provide instruction for anyone with an interest in this timeless craft, from amateurs to professionals. Thirty recipes for creating all kinds of handmade soaps, including liquid, cold- and hot-process, melt-and-pour and re-batched soaps–all using natural ingredients, sustainable methods and tools found in almost any kitchen. The authors also demonstrate how to add fragrances, skin treatments and colors and how to shape solid soaps.

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Making Natural Liquid Soaps

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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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The Soap Book: Simple Herbal Recipes

This best selling soap book has 30 wonderful recipes for hand crafted herbal, aromatherapy and floral soaps. History, chemistry, equipment, plants and oils are included to create these soothing soaps.

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The Everything Soapmaking Book

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Home soapmaking is not only more economical than buying premade soaps–it’s also a lot more fun! With The Everything Soapmaking Book, 2nd Edition, you will be making homemade soaps for yourself and your friends in no time! Completely revised and updated, The Everything Soapmaking Book, 2nd Edition is a complete guide to making all kinds of soap from simple bath soaps to beautiful, aromatic gifts, right in the comfort of your own home. Easy-to-follow steps lead you through the proc

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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Making Natural Soaps

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Leave no soapstone unturned!

Soapmaking has always been a popular craft with a dedicated group of followers, but with the explosion of urban homesteading and people looking to go green, noncrafters are now joining in on the fun. Whether it’s making natural soap to live greener, give as gifts, save money, or make money, The Complete Idiot’s Guide(r) to Making Natural Soaps has everything the new soap maker will need to create organic, natural soaps of all kinds.

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Soap: Making It, Enjoying It

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How to make beautiful gift soaps at home with instructions for coloring, scenting, molding, and carving. Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service.140,000 copies in print

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Making Soap From Scratch: A Step-by-step Guide

With a no-nonsense approach and easy to follow directions, writer and professional soapmaker, Gregory White, shares his experience (and recipes) for creating all-vegetable, cold-process soaps. White takes the reader step by step through the process of making natural soaps for family, friends and for profit. Easy to understand and master. Includes tips on: time-saving shortcuts, natural scent selections and large production. Includes an essential oil guide. Includes a humorous chapter titled:

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Making Natural Milk Soap

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Since 1973, Storey’s Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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Making Candles & Soaps For Dummies

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Make floating candles, herbal soaps, and even a home spa

Discover the secrets of color, shape, and scent the fun and easy way?

Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned craftperson, this fun book offers everything you need to make beautiful, professional-looking candles and soaps at home. You get practical tips on dyeing and scenting wax, using unusual molds, adding embellishments to candles, working with soap ingredients, and even turning your hobby into a business!

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Essentially Soap: The Elegant Art of Handmade Soap Making, Scenting, Coloring & Shaping

Consumers are no longer satisfied with the industrial types of soap available at the grocery store. They want specialty soaps with just the right scent, emollients, and eye-appeal. They want to pamper themselves and their loved ones with personal soaps made to suit their own tastes and preferences. Now they can get that perfect custom-made soap by making it themselves. Drawing on years of experimentation and fine-tuning, author and chemist Dr. Robert McDaniel has developed simple instr

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Natural Soapmaking

“Soap is…one of the better crafts to consider as gifts…supplies directions for more than 20 different kinds of hand-milled soap, an easier process than starting from lye…instructions extend to bath oils and salts and to packaging, labeling, and creating a munificence of fragrance. Step-by-step descriptions are boldly illustrated with color photographs. Who could resist all-natural camomile oatmeal soap or effervescent all-natural champagne bubble bath?”—Booklist.
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Making Transparent Soap: The Art of Crafting, Molding, Scenting & Coloring

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With common ingredients and equipment, readers can craft stunning transparent soaps. Step-by-step photographs offer a full exploration of this special technique, ingredients, and the basic for making transparent bars. Includes recipes and tips for creating unique and beautiful soap masterpieces.

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Milk-Based Soaps: Making Natural, Skin-Nourishing Soap

Learn how to make moisturizing milk-based soaps like Oatmeal, Peaches and Cream, and specialty soaps, as well as how to turn this hobby into a moneymaker!

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Making Soaps & Scents : Soaps, Shampoos, Perfumes & Splashes You Can Make At Home

With this book, it’s easy to create soothing suds and a wide variety of perfumes, colognes and splashes that moisturize, revitalize and aromatize skin and hair. Following the simple step-by-step directions, readers can make all the body products of their dreams, from Buttermilk Oatmeal Soap and Tangerine Cocoa Bar to Lemon Lavender Shampoo. Each recipe also points out how readers can improvise and create their own special soaps and scents. A special section details the techniques of

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Making Scented Soap: 60 fragrant soaps and bath bombes to make at home

A simple and sensuous pleasure, scented soap is easy to make, a delight to use, and an always welcome gift. Here are more than 60 recipes for handmade soaps, arranged by scent, that carry the heavenly fragrances of sunflower and calendula petals, lemon sherbet, rosemary and thyme, cucumber and peppermint, frankincense and myrrh. All the recipes call for natural bases derived from olive oil, jojoba, cocoa butter, and sweet almond extract. Citrus, floral, woodland, and herb accents can come from y

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Soapmaking for Fun & Profit: Make Money Doing What You Love!

Discover How to Profit from Your Craft
Have you ever dreamed of learning how to make fragrant soaps? You can! Soapmaking For Fun & Profit was written with two purposes in mind: to teach you the basics of this fun craft and to show you how to turn these new skills into cash! Whether you’ve been crafting for years or are just getting started, you’ll learn:
·The benefits and enjoyment of soapmaking
·The right materials, tools, and equipment to use
·How to create a special “craftin

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Scientific Soapmaking: The Chemistry of the Cold Process

Until now, there were just two kinds of books on soapmaking. Books for the commodity soap industry emphasized the economical production of soap by the ton and were written for those with a background in chemistry and chemical engineering. Books for the emerging craft industry emphasized the production of high-quality soap by the pound and were aimed at those familiar with the format of cookbooks. Makers of handcrafted soap often wish they had paid more attention in chemistry class so that the in

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Soaps (Cozy)

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Either as treats for yourself or gifts for loved ones, these 30 decorative soaps are delights to make, use, and show off in the bathroom. From La Vie en Rose, a heart-shaped soap with rose oil, to the sweet-smelling, honey-rich Bee Happy, each one features sophisticated scents, aromatic herbs that enhance mood or alleviate ailments, and natural materials. There’s a perfect recipe for every crafter, whether it’s the zesty, lemony Gin and Tonic, the woodsy Pine for Me, or the fun-for-kids