Natural soap making

✍ Scribed by Letcavage, Elizabeth

• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 85
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Learn to make your own soap from scratch the old-fashioned way, without all the artificial additives found in commercially available soap. This book gives all the information you need about the various natural oils, fragrances, and botanical additives you can use, and the special properties they give to soap. Includes 12 recipes for special soaps, from a rich, gentle goat milk soap to a gardener's hand soap full of natural exfoliating ingredients to an invigorating citrus soap for first thing in the morning--plus information and tips for creating your own unique recipes"--Page 4 of cover. Read more...

Abstract: "Learn to make your own soap from scratch the old-fashioned way, without all the artificial additives found in commercially available soap. This book gives all the information you need about the various natural oils, fragrances, and botanical additives you can use, and the special properties they give to soap. Includes 12 recipes for special soaps, from a rich, gentle goat milk soap to a gardener's hand soap full of natural exfoliating ingredients to an invigorating citrus soap for first thing in the morning--plus information and tips for creating your own unique recipes"--Page 4 of cover

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Equipment and ingredients --
How to make cold process soap --
Fun and decorative natural soaps --
Special soaps for specific purposes --
Formulating your own recipes.

✦ Subjects

Soap.