By making your own soap, you use more natural ingredients and can create a selection of soaps perfect for your own personal skin type. You will also discover that you have the ideal present for any friend or member of your family.
The art and craft of soapmaking is neither difficult nor mysterious, needing only the most basic of ingredients, and equipment you will probably already have in your kitchen. In this glorious yet practical book, Melinda Coss shows you how easy it is to make basic soap and then to have fun adding colourings, textures and perfumes to create a recipe that's perfect for you.
From one basic recipe, you will be able to make an enormous variety of soaps using kitchen cupboard ingredients and readily available fragrances. Make strawberry soap, goat's milk and ylang ylang, or calendula and sunflower. Try your hand at clear glycerine bars of coconut ice soap. Or, for men, there are minty and pine soaps, cleansing bars for greasy hands and spicy slabs fragranced with cinnamon and ginger. Soaps for gardeners, antiseptic soaps, shampoo bars, hair rinses and bathtime oils and scrubs are also included.
If you've never thought of soap making before, now's your chance to try. With this book, the chances are you will soon become addicted to this enjoyable, useful and even profitable hobby.
