Easy homemade melt & pour soaps : a modern guide to making custom creations using natural ingredients & essential oils / Jan Berry, author of Simple & natural soapmaking and 101 easy homemade products for your skin, health & home and founder of The Nerdy Farm Wife.
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TextPublisher: Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2019Description: 192 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781624148743
- 1624148743
- Easy homemade melt and pour soaps
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 668.12 B534 | Available | 33111009411303 | ||||
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Northport Library | NonFiction | 668.12 B534 | Available | 33111008987808 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Creating your own homemade soap has never been easier or safer than with Jan Berry's simple lye-free melt and pour recipes, made entirely of all-natural ingredients you can feel good about using. Each recipe stems from a pre-made soap base, which readers will easily customize with fun colors, scents and textures by infusing it with herbs, flowers and essential oils. Choose between uniquely interesting scents such as Soothing Sunflower Soap, Dandelion Honey Soap, Jewelweed and Oatmeal Soap, and many more. Making creative designs is a popular part of this method, and Jan provides step-by-step tutorials for fresh, creative designs that readers will love. The book also provides instructions for creating other bath and body products, such as sugar scrub cubes, shave soaps, whipped soaps, charcoal salt bars, etc. Readers can further personalize these projects to their own needs with Jan's thoughtful recipe adaptations, which include tips for making soaps allergy-free, extra nourishing and more. She has also included alternate versions of some of the most popular made-with-lye recipes, so you can make and enjoy your favorites in a safer and more natural way!The book will include 75 recipes and 75 photos.
Includes index.
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-friendly 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