Easy homemade melt & pour soaps A modern guide to making custom creations using natural ingredients & essential oils
Book - 2019
Feel good about pampering yourself with these artisanal soaps featuring natural botanicals, colorants and exfoliants. This comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to melt-and-pour soapmaking from Jan Berry, author of Simple & Natural Soapmaking, includes 50 inspiring recipes plus design tutorials and a stunning natural colorant gallery. Her method is incredibly easy; all you need to do is melt your soap base, infuse it with healing herbs or flowers, add essential oils and natural colorants, and pour it into a beautiful mold. As soon as your soap is dry, it's ready to use! This method is a safe soapmaking technique that doesn't require handling lye. Plus, because it's so simple, many projects make for excellent family-frien...dly crafts. Kids will love helping out with simple soaps like Sunflower Sunshine Bars or playing with Aromatherapy Soap Dough. As you work through the projects, Jan leads you through a variety of techniques step by step. From simple herbal infusions in Wildflower Honey Soap to advanced methods of layering and swirling as in the Ocean Waves Soap, there's always another project to excite beginner and advanced soapmakers alike. Here, you'll find all the information and inspiration you need to make soaps that are gentle on your skin and fun to make! --Publisher.
- Subjects
- Published
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Salem, MA :
Page Street Publishing Co
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 192 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781624148743
- Introduction
- Part 1. Getting Started
- Soap Bases
- Infusing Soap with Herbs & Flowers
- Basic Equipment & Supplies
- Tips for Successful Melt & Pour Soapmaking
- Melt & Pour Soapmaking Tutorial
- Part 2. Recipes
- Nourishing Infusions
- Sunflower Sunshine Bars
- Chamomile Honeycomb Slices
- Jewelweed & Oatmeal Soap
- Thyme Facial Soap
- Rose Facial Soap
- Rosemary Mint Shampoo Bars
- Calendula Orange Sugar Scrub Cubes
- Herbal Soap Embeds
- Herbal Surprise Bath Bombs
- SPA Day Luxuries
- Charcoal & Sea Salt Spa Bars
- Adzuki Bean & Rhassoul Clay Bars
- Mocha Mint Massage Bars
- Lavender Oatmeal Shower Bars
- Herbal Clay Loofah Soaps
- Floating Dead Sea Mud Bars
- Moringa Detox Bars
- Pink Grapefruit Pedicure Scrubs
- Chlorella & Green Tea Clarity Bars
- Springtime Delights
- Dandelion Diagonal
- Spring Flowers Soap
- Spring Weeds Gardener's Soap
- Aromatherapy Soap Dough
- Floral Bouquet of Soap
- Lemon Rose Easy Swirl Soap
- Cornflower & Calendula Soap Favors
- Chamomile Oatmeal Soap Favors
- Sunlight & Seashore
- Sunset on the Beach Soap
- Lots of Bubbles Soap
- Seashell Mini Soaps
- Easy Beach Bars
- Sea Glass Guest Soaps
- Ocean Waves Soap
- Mermaid Tails Soap
- Beach Feet Ombré Loofah Bars
- Field & Forest
- Mini Soap Flowers
- Field of Flowers Soap
- Wildflower Honey Soap
- Rustic Woods Shave Soap
- Juniper Orange Mechanic's Soap
- Camping Soaps
- Colorful Autumn Leaf Soaps
- Easy Tie-Dye Soap Leaves & Pumpkins
- Pine Resin-Infused Soaps
- Desert Inspiration
- Triple Aloe Bars
- Cactus Landscape Soap
- Chaparral Soap on a Rope
- Agave Bay Rum Shave Soap
- Jojoba Sage Shampoo & Body Bars
- Desert Sunrise
- Desert Night Sky
- Part 3. Information & Techniques Library
- Tips for Using Natural Colorants
- Photo Gallery of Natural Colorants
- Natural Soap Colorants Characteristics & Usage Rates
- Essential Oils & Blends
- Exfoliants
- Other Additives
- Packaging & Storing
- Technique Library
- Troubleshooting
- Resources
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Index