Handcrafted soap

Delores Boone, 1951-

Book - 2002

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Published
Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books 2002.
Language
English
Main Author
Delores Boone, 1951- (-)
Physical Description
128 p. : ill
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781581802689
  • Introduction
  • Soapmaking 101
  • Ingredients
  • Additives
  • Equipment
  • Safety Precautions
  • Methods
  • Slow Cooker Method
  • Oven Method
  • Double Boiler Method
  • Making Milk Soaps
  • Filling Molds With Soap
  • Melt & Pour
  • Recipes
  • Sunflower Soap
  • Kitchen Soap
  • Spanish Castile Soap
  • Energizing Citrus Soap
  • Lavender Soap
  • Green Tea Soap
  • Peach Blossom Soap
  • Oceanside Soap
  • Romantic Rose Soap
  • Vanilla Soap
  • Woof Doggie Shampoo Bar
  • Wildberry Soap
  • Mint Medley Soap
  • Replenishing Soap
  • Chamomile Soap
  • Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Soap
  • Specialty Recipes
  • Troubleshooting
  • Designing Your Own Recipes
  • Charts & References
  • Glossary
  • Resources
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

Soap-making books come and go, many of them focused on saving money or getting back to basics. Washington-based entrepreneur and teacher Boone offers a third option: a high-quality and aesthetically pleasing product. In her introduction, she refutes the contention that soap making is a messy and boring process simply because of the outcome--that handmade cleansers are creamier, more luxurious, and produce a squeaky-clean surface. In fact, all her instructions are designed to encourage an artisan output: explicit data about the equipment and ingredients involved (lye, distilled water, and oils/fats); detailed information and step-by-step color photographs of methods; 28 recipes with design and process topics (e.g., don't add colorants to milk soaps); and others. Along the way, she refutes some long-held myths--for instance, that all castile soap is 100 percent olive oil and that handmade soaps won't work well for Fido. At the end are charts galore--oil properties, lye and water calculation, oil characteristics, essential oil blending characteristics, conversion chart, glossary, and resources. --Barbara Jacobs

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.