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""If you love handmade soaps, but hate the boutique price, then turn to this comprehensive volume.offers recipes for dozens of exotic soaps.In addition there are other luxuries like bath salts, sachets, bubble bath, bath oils, and powders. Learn all about the different types of soaps, additives, colorants, fragrances, and equipment and you'll soon be cooking up some super soaps of your own."--Crafts Soaps fragrant with oils or spices, fizzing up the bath, or molded into perfect petals to place in a pretty jar beside the sink. Ones with guardian angels or good luck coins tucked inside. A virtual cornucopia of beautiful soaps will delight your senses with their scents, shapes, and feel. (Of course, they'll get you clean too, oh so gently, but they're almost too attractive to use up!) And, these soaps are easy to make, out of the kindest, chemical-free ingredients. Just take a commercially available glycerine or coconut-oil base, cut it up, and melt it in a microwave or double boiler. Pour the liquid into molds to set--and let the real fun begin. Your imagination will go wild with possibilities as you check out different types of aromatic and essential oils (with tips on blending); additives such as almond or beeswax; colorants; and molds for hexagons, delicate shells, and more. Plus: information on hand milling!

Soaps fragrant with oils or spices, fizzing up the bath, or molded into perfect petals to place in a pretty jar beside the sink. Ones with guardian angels or good luck coins tucked inside. A virtual cornucopia of beautiful soaps will delight your senses with their scents, shapes, and feel. (Of course, they'll get you clean too, oh so gently, but they're almost too attractive to use up!) And, these soaps are easy to make, out of the kindest, chemical-free ingredients. Just take a commercially available glycerine or coconut-oil base, cut it up, and melt in a microwave or double boiler. Pour the liquid into molds to set--and let the real fun begin. Your imagination will go wild with possibilities as you check out different types of aromatic and essential oil (with tips on blending); additives such as almond or beeswax, colorants; and molds for hexagons, delicate shells, and more. Plus: information on hand milling! A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

Materials for soapmaking (Soap bases ; Fragrance ; Natural additives ; Colorants ; Molds ; Equipment) -- Terms -- Cautions -- Making melt & pour soap -- Melt & pour soap recipes (Easy molded soaps (Butter bar ; Air bar ; Water bar ; Fire bar ; Earth bar ; Uplifting soap ; Honey soap ; Soap on a rope ; Mother of pearl shell soaps ; Pebble soaps ; Petal soaps) ; Loaf style soaps (Spa soap ; Bread loaf soap ; citrus honey soap ; Sea mist soap ; Green tea soap) ; Embedded surprises (Luffa sponge soap ; Guardian angel soap ; Good fortune soap) ; Embossed soaps (Rose & olive oil soap ; Cardamom & cinnamon soap) ; Double molded soaps (Plaid soap ; Flower power soaps ; Strawberry soaps ; Rock crystal soaps: Milky quartz soap ; Opal agate soap ; Malachite soap ; Jade soap ; Amethyst soap ; Rose quartz soap) -- Hand milled soap procedure -- Hand milled soap recipes (Bath balls ; Savon de comte ; Zen bar ; Tuscany soap)