The Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780882669656)

In this comprehensive guide, Susan Miller Cavitch covers everything you need to know to make your own soaps. Learn the basic techniques for crafting oil-, cream-, and vegetable-based soaps, and then start experimenting with your own personalized scents and effects. Cavitch provides tips for making more than 40 different specialty soaps, showing you how to design colorful marbled bars and expertly blend ingredients to create custom fragrances. You'll soon be making luxurious soaps at a fraction of the cost of boutique products.

Important Notice
Early printings of this book contain a recipe variation in a sidebar note on page 36. As a result of further testing, author Susan Miller Cavitch and Storey Publishing strongly recommend that you do not try this variation. Adding honey when you are combining the sodium hydroxide and water may result in a stronger reaction with more intense heat. The mixture may bubble up quickly and come out of the pot, posing a potential hazard.

Author: Susan Miller Cavitch
ISBN-10: 0882669656
ISBN-13: 9780882669656
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/07/1997
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.00h x 8.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/15/1997 pg. 60