Easy homemade melt & pour soaps : a modern guide to making custom creations using natural ingredients & essential oils
Berry, Jan2019
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Feel good about pampering yourself with these artisanal soaps featuring natural botanicals, colorants and exfoliants. This comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to melt-and-pour soap making from Jan Berry, author of Simple & Natural Soap making, 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 mould. As soon as your soap is dry, it's ready to use! This method is a safe soap making 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 soap makers 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.
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Author:
Berry, Jan, photographer (expression)
Imprint:
Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2019.©2019.
Collation:
192 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Getting started -- Recipes -- Nourishing infusions -- Spa day luxuries -- Springtime delights -- Sunlight & seashore -- Field & forest -- Desert inspiration -- Information & techniques library.
ISBN:
9781624148743
Dewey class:
668.12
Language:
English
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BRN:
28340
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