Essentially Soap: The Elegant Art of Handmade Soap Making, Scenting, Coloring & Shaping

ISBN: 0873418328

Author: McDaniel, Robert S.

Condition: Used

Consumers are no longer satisfied with the industrial types of soap available at the grocery store. They want specialty soaps with just the right scent, emollients, and eye-appeal. They want to pamper themselves and their loved ones with personal soaps made to suit their own tastes and preferences. Now they can get that perfect custom-made soap by making it themselves.Drawing on years of experimentation and fine-tuning, author and chemist Dr. Robert McDaniel has developed simple instructions and recipes for making a wide variety of cold process soaps as well as melt and pour and rebatched soaps for the beginner. McDaniel instructs on how to work with fragrances, skin treatments, colors, and shapes, and discusses the aromatherapy benefits associated with many essential oils.-25 recipes for cold process soapmaking.-Easy to follow step-by-step instructions.-Time-saving melt and pour and rebatch techniques.