Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

by Elizabeth Letcavage

Book Overview

Handmade soap is inexpensive, soft on skin, and makes a great gift for anyone. Readers will learn the basic four-oil soap recipe, which can then be enhanced with additives such as oatmeal, fragrance oils, colored swirls, two-tone nuggets, and moisturizing butters. Charts on saponification, base oils, and luxury oils make creating unique soap recipes easy.Hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photographs illustrate exactly how to make cold-process soap...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811735737
• ISBN13: 9780811735735
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"