Basic Soap Making Book

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Basic Soap Making Book

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Learn all the skills and tools you need to get started in this practical, fun hobby. From gathering the proper materials to packaging, giving and using your finished soap, you'll learn basic, safe, almost no-fail techniques to make your home soapmaking a pleasure and a breeze.

Clearly written, step-by-step directions and large, full-color photos make it almost impossible to go wrong
Letcavage, 9" x 11-1/16", 126 pp.

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Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction

Basic Equipment and Ingredients
Making Cold Process Soap
- Basic Four-Oil Soap Recipe
- Equipment Cleanup
- Unmolding and Cutting the Soap
- More Basic Soap Recipes
Soap Additives
- Enhancing Soap with Color, Fragrance, and Oatmeal
- Two-Tone Nugget Soap
- Using Oxide Colorants
- Goat's Milk, Oatmeal, and Lavender Soap
Rebatching
- Color-Infused Molded Soap
- Rebatched Soap with Colored Swirls
- Recycling Scraps into Soap Balls
Creating your Own Soap Recipes
- Basic Oil Chart
- Luxury Oil Chart
- Saponification Value Chart
Packaging Finished Soap
Handmade Equipment
- How to Make a Soap Mold
- How to Make a Soap Liner
- How to Make a Soap Cutter

Resources

Excerpt from page 7

Chances are that you have most of the equipment you need to make soap right around the house. The equipment and ingredients you don't have are easily found in grocery stores or online. As you gain experience making cold process soap, you might want to make your own wooden mold, mold liner, and soap cutter. Instructions for doing so are included in chapter 7. In the meantime, easy-to-find alternatives will work almost as well.

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Jun 14, 2019 Review star icon

While I agree that the safety information in this book is excellent I will say that after reading this book I spent time watching YouTube videos and learned much more from them. I also made the 4 Oil Basic Soap recipe in this book a few times and it had a fair amount of soda ash. While I think this book gives a fair description of the level of safety you should preform, I can say they are much better resources than this.

Sep 23, 2011 Review star icon

This is an excellent book for the beginner soap maker. It does not have a lot of recipes, but what it excells at is the how to. It goes into more detail of how than any other book I have read. The emphesis as I see it is how to make soap safely. As far as I am concerned that information alone is worth the price of the book.