The Natural Soap Making Book for Beginners


Book Description

Unleash your creativity by making your own all-natural soap Making soap with all-natural ingredients lets you express your creative side while reducing chemicals in your cleansing routine, but where do you begin? This helpful resource for entry-level soap makers will demystify the process and show you how to bring nature and your own unique style into your everyday soaps. What sets The Natural Soapmaking Book for Beginners apart from other soap making books: Soap making basics—Learn all you need to know before making your first batch of soap, like the science behind what happens when you combine ingredients, helpful soap making terminology, and lists of all the supplies you'll need (including lye). This section also provides instructions for using natural colors and scents to make your soaps look and smell beautiful. Step-by-step tutorials—Dive into cold-process soap making and unlock your artistic abilities using simple guides for mixing, melting, and pouring, as well as instructions for creating silky smooth, layered, and embossed soaps. 55+ all-natural soap recipes—This book will teach you to make a variety of soaps infused with natural herbs, oils, and milks, including a creamy Gentle Baby Soap, an antioxidant-rich Avocado and Shea Face Bar with Aloe, and a nourishing Goat Milk and Honey Shampoo Bar. Master the basic techniques you need to create luxurious soap and body care products with The Natural Soapmaking Book for Beginners.




Simple & Natural Soapmaking


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"With this new comprehensive guide, herbalist Jan Berry offers everything the modern-day enthusiast needs to make incredible botanical soaps. Beginners can join in the sudsy fun with detailed tutorials and step-by-step photographs for making traditional cold-process soap and the more modern hot-process method with a slow cooker...Featured resources are Jan's handy guides to common soapmaking essential oils and their properties, oil and milk infusions with healing herbs and easy decoration techniques. The book also contains Jan's highly anticipated natural colorants gallery showcasing more than 50 soaps that span the rainbow."--




Soap Crafting


Book Description

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.




The Complete Photo Guide to Soap Making


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The Complete Photo Guide to Soap Making thoroughly demystifies and demonstrates every aspect of the craft, guiding readers with clear text and hundreds of step-by-step photos.




Pure Soapmaking


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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.




The Natural Soapmaking Handbook


Book Description

Following up from the worldwide success of “Soap Naturally”, Marina and Patrizia share their extensive experience on as natural as possible soapmaking in a series of smaller, more topical and much cheaper books, called "The Super-Naturally series". Authoritative, concise yet exhaustive, and small in price at only $19.90 RRP, the first volume in the series, “The Natural Soapmaking Handbook”, provides aspiring, new and expert soapmakers with effective know-how as the key to discover the secrets of reliably successful soaping results. After explaining about fundamental ingredients, additives, tools, equipment, safety precautions and workplace setup, the Handbook describes in full detail all modern handmade "paste" methods to manufacture as natural as possible, skin- and eco-friendly, sustainable soaps. Cold Process (CP), Discounted Water CP, No-Heat Applied CP, Hot Process (HP), Double Boiler HP, Oven HP, Crockpot HP, Microwave HP, CPOP (Cold Process Oven Process) and In The Mould HP are accurately illustrated in easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Also covered are advanced techniques for special soaps: from liquid soapmaking to milk, butter and honey soap; from layered and swirled soaps to composite soaps and embeds. Clear instructions for reclaiming, reshaping and rebatching virtually any kind of soap complement the authors’ super-accurate troubleshooting guide to making the most of every batch of soap. As precious gems scattered along the book, you will be able to discover the truth on soda ash, lye-free soap and other common misconceptions about soap in many “Soap myth buster” sections. With the key concept of the series being frugality, the book is in Black & White, with colour photographs available from the Web, at the http://www.demetra.com/natural_soapmaking/handbook/ mini-site.




Natural Soap Making Cookbook


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Natural Soap Making Cookbook 150 Unique Soap Making Recipes If you are reading this description, then I can safely assume that you either read my other book "Natural & Organic Soap Making Alchemy," or you are already a pro in the world of soap making craft. Either way, you already know the three most popular soap making methods. Cold Process Method Melt and Pour Method Hot Press Method In this recipe book, I share many recipes for each of these methods. Even though you may prefer just one of these methods over the others but I can honestly say after five years of making all different kinds of soaps that each of these methods have their own unique soap creating techniques that the others don't. Did you know that there is a soap that can reduce cellulite? How about the soap that can cure acne and other skin blemishes? My son's acne disappeared after using a soap that one of my friends made (that is how I got interested in soap making). There are many medicinal and other benefits of using homemade natural soaps. I divided each of the soap making methods into 3 categories Floral Scented Soaps Unique Soaps Medicated Soaps In each category, I listed 10 of my best recipes, most of which are truly unique. Additionally, I added three additional chapters with 10 recipes in each that are becoming very popular lately. Glycerin Soaps Liquid and Laundry Soaps Goat Milk Soaps But before you buy this book, I would prefer you take a glance at the table of content and look through all of my 150 recipes and see if any of them peak your interest. Welcome to the world of soulful aroma and beautiful colors of freshly homemade soaps!




Botanical Soaps


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Sustainability is creeping into all aspects of our lives. The beauty industry is one of the biggest polluters, littering our oceans with used plastic bottles and containers - therefor, there is now a growing movement looking for cleaner and greener way to beautify. Learn how to simplify your beauty regime with Botanical Soaps as this book shows you how to create your own beauty products using all natural ingredients. Demystify your skin type and discover how to combat bathroom plastic, minimize your routine by making your own soaps, shampoo bars and other beauty products including, lip butters, cleansers, bath salts and natural deodorants. Botanical Soaps is a beautiful and inspiring guide that will encourage you to green up your beauty regime with all natural, organic projects that are kinder to both the planet and your skin.




Transparent Soapmaking


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TRANSPARENT SOAPMAKING is the first book ever written on the art of making "see-through" soap. Author and professional soapmaker Catherine Failor demystifies the process, sharing all the information and secrets necessary for making natural, luxurious transparent soap in your own kitchen.




The Natural Soapmaking Handbook


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The Complete Guide to Creating Sustainable Soap from Scratch Make beautiful herbal soap creations at home with this essential guide. Simi Khabra, seasoned soapmaker and creator of Muddy Mint Soap Co., guides you through easy-to-learn techniques for creating delightful sudsy bars using 100 percent natural ingredients that won’t irritate your skin. Perfect for beginners and longtime hobbyists alike, Simi’s in-depth guides will answer nearly every question you think of, such as how to work with lye safely, substitute ingredients in recipes, work with natural colorants, blend essential oils for custom scents, create pretty yet easy designs in your soap and so much more! Through 30+ recipes, you’ll combine stunning art and fascinating science to become a pro in the unique craft of soapmaking. Learn to layer pretty shades of French pink clay in the soothing pastel Milky Rose soap. Try a textured top with the exfoliating, revitalizing Breakfast Scrub bar. And experiment with essential oil blends in the woodsy, lavender-scented Sunlit Meadow recipe. With the knowledge of Simi’s foundational recipes, techniques and tips, you’ll have everything you need to blend and design your own luxurious soaps.