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

Makela, Casey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0882669842 ISBN 13: 9780882669847

Publisher: Storey, 1997

Synopsis

Craft beautiful, sweet-smelling milk-based soaps safely and easily. In this fun and informative guide, Casey Makela shares her specialized techniques for producing lusciously creamy soaps. With straightforward instructions and thorough explanations, Makela teaches you how to fashion your own soaps from vegetable oils and tallow bases, giving dozens of suggestions for relaxing scents and specialty colors that will let your product shine. You’ll soon be creating enticingly unique soaps that will keep your glowing skin smelling and feeling good all day.

About this title

About the Author

The experience and expertise Casey Makela has acquired through 15 years of making soaps is readily apparent in her book, Milk-Based Soaps. She is the owner of Killmaster Soap & Woolen Works, a gift shop and direct mail business. Besides raising dairy goats, Casey has written articles for various animal husbandry periodicals. She resides in Harrisville, Michigan, with her husband and seven children.

From the Back Cover

Learn the time-honored secrets of making moisturizing, skin-nourishing soaps with milk!

Create this sought-after soap at home using the specialized yet simple techniques Casey Makela has developed in more than 15 years of soapmaking. With her in-depth instructions you'll learn to:

* Make both vegetable- and tallow-based soaps using common ingredients and equipment

* Create classic beauty soaps, like Milk-based Oatmeal and Peaches and Cream

* Experiment with specialty soaps from the practical to the lush -- Nitty-Gritty to Romantic Rose

* Name, package, and market your soaps to turn your hobby into a money-maker!

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0882669842
• ISBN 13: 9780882669847
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112