Country Living Handmade Soap: Recipes for Crafting Soap at Home - Hardcover

Hulbert, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688155626 ISBN 13: 9780688155629

Publisher: William Morrow, 2001

Synopsis

Gathers recipes for making homemade soap with such natural ingredients as aloe vera, oatmeal, lavender, rosemary, olive oil, sage, and peppermint

About this title

From the Author:

Soap Making can be fun but it is a learning process.
I tried to present the art of making soap in such a way that a beginner could understand it without bogging them down in technical jargon. Those that already understand the technical side and have some degree of expertise will appreciate the recipes and the pictures as they will stimulate the creativeness within every soapmaker to blossom and use these recipes as a basis on which to build. I've also included recipes that use specialty base ingredients like jojoba, rosin, wheat germ oil, etc. so those expereinced at basic soapmaking can get more comfortable with enriching their soaps with naturally nutrient oils. Some recipes do require alot of extra stirring(like castile), and the recipes with beeswax and goatsmilk are for the more experienced soapmakers that can appreciate the extra longevity of the beeswax bar(although it may compromise lather, it cleans well and lasts a lot longer). The beeswax is trickier to work with and is for the more expereienced. I also invite the readers to visit our website listed in the book for more free information about the herbs and essential oils used in the recipes. Some of the herbs in the recipes actually have thereapeutic values and then some are for texture and cosmetic presentation of the soap.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0688155626
• ISBN 13: 9780688155629
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 111