Basic Soap Making - All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started

This book features hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photographs that illustrate exactly how to make cold-process soap. It contains instructions on molding soap, cutting bars, creating original recipes, packaging gifts, and more. It includes a chapter on constructing a soap mold, liner, and cutter at home. Readers will learn the basic four-oil soap recipe, which can then be enhanced with additives such as oatmeal, fragrance oils, colored swirls, two-tone nuggets, and moisturizing butters.

Contents:

1. Basic Equipment nd Ingredients
2. Making Cold Process Soap
     Basic Four-Oil Soap Recipe
     Equipment Cleanup
     Unmolding and Cutting the Soap
     More Basic Soap Recipes
3. Soap Additives
     Enhancing Soap with Color, Fragrance, and Oatmeal
     Two-Tone Nugget Soap
     Using Oxide Colorants
     Goats Milk, Oatmeal, and Lavender Soap
4. Rebatching
     Color-Infused Molded Soap
     Rebatched Soap with Soap Swirls
     Recycling Scraps into Soap Balls
5. Creating Your Own Soap Recipes
     Basic Oil Chart
     Luxury Oil Chart
     Saponification
6. Packaging Finished Soap
7. Handmake Equipment
     How to Make a Soap Mold
     How to Make a Mold Liner
     How to Make a Soap Cutter

Kerri Mixon of Spring Valley, CA says, "This is the cold process soap book for which all soap makers have waited! This book is the most complete, comprehensive, accurate instruction manual on beginning soap making and is in brilliant pictogram format. The book contains literally hundreds of photographs and includes images of all steps and phases of cold process soap making, such as cutting, trimming, rebatching scraps, and packaging. Hands down, this is the most complete and most easily understandable beginning soap making book ever published. Even experienced professional soap makers should keep this amazing book within easy access to dazzle inquiring customers with photos of the art of handmade cold process soap making."

Excerpt:

Chances are that you have most of the equipment you need to make soap right around the house. The equipment and ingredients you don't have are easily found in grocery stores or online. As you giain experience making cold process soap, you might wnt to make your own wooden mold, mold liner, and soap cutter. Instructions for doing so are included in chapter 7. In the meantime, easy-to-find alternatives will work almost as well.

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