The Complete Soapmaker

By Norma Coney

Book Overview

Olive-oil castile soap, cucumber soap, kiwi bars, clove soap...make beautifully molded and delightfully fragrant soaps, luxurious gifts for yourself and friends, from the more than 60 recipes in this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080694868X
• ISBN13: 9780806948683
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.5" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Good results with no prior experience

I decided to start soap making in an attempt to get a certain somebody to wash his hands. This is the first book I bought on the subject, but I don't see myself needing any more. It makes very mild soap, and it turned out perfectly, but as it turns out we just have very hard water. At the end of the day this book gave me a year's worth of toxin free soap and a fun group activity to do with mother, worth every penny.

Seasoned Soap Maker Loves This Book!

I've read a few of the reviews for this book, and I was quite surprised to see unfavorable ones! I love this book! I've been making soap for the past 7 years, so I'm not new to it. I've found this book helpful, and I've adapted my way of preparing my basic soap to this book's way - adding the lye is not any more dangerous then lye is inherently dangerous. Wear rubber gloves, and be careful! Lye is very caustic! I love the hand-milled soap recipes - I've created almost all of the ones in the book. The process of adding herbs, scents, & colors after the soap has cured is much more rewarding than adding these things to the lye/fat mixture (remember, lye is very caustic and will 'eat up' most additives). Hand-milled soap is very luxurious and quite easy to make - very exciting! I have lots of soap books, and this is the one I come back to most often. Try the olive oil castile soap - a nice soap that doesn't require special ingredients; and it's wonderful as a base for the hand-milled soaps, too!