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Soap Making for Beginners

100% Pure Soaps to Make at Home

Ayako Umehara

Description

This book makes it easy to create your own soaps using ingredients that you know and trust. Ayako Umehara shows you how to make your own soaps using pure and simple natural ingredients like olive oil, shea butter, rose hips, avocado, manuka honey and almonds as well as many other novel aromatic ingredients.

The book presents 45 all-natural recipes using 100% pure essential oils and botanicals in the following categories:

Soaps That Are Gentle on the Skin including Manuka Honey Soap, Plain Olive Oil Soap and Skim Milk Soap for Kids
Soaps That Nourish the Skin and Body such as Avocado and Sweet Almond Soap, Grape Seed Soap and Sesame Spice Scrub Soap
Soaps that Soothe for example Lavender Marble Soap, Rosemary Soap and Linden Flower and Honey Soap
Natural Soaps for Everyday Use like Tea Tree Hand Soap and Baking Soda Paste for Cleaning
Special Occasion and Seasonal Soaps such as Valentine's Sweet Soap and Christmas Ornament Soap

A special section introduces basic techniques for bar soaps using the Cold Process and Melt-and-Pour Process as well as liquid soaps and how to vary the type and quantity of plant oils used. An extensive reference section covers everything you need to know about natural and botanical additives: plant and essential oils, herbs, dried flowers and other natural ingredients.