Soothing Soaps For Healthy Skin

Soothing Soaps gives readers all the easy steps for making soaps at home. Author of the best selling Soap Book,Sandy Maine, now turns her hands to the creation of beneficient soaps to help heal our bodies and minds. Recipes are lye free. The recipes include antiseptic soaps, poison ivy soaps,acne soaps,muscle healing,chicken pocks, bruises and emollient soaps.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars A great beginning book on making herbal soaps
I wanted some insight into how to incorporate herbs into my melt and pour soap, and I found this book very helpful. Contrary to what another reviewer said, not all melt and pour soap bases contain alcohol and fillers – it is possible to get m&p soap base that is composed of natural ingredients.

I was pleased to find information on different methods of preparing your own decoctions, tinctures and infusions from herbs, and also some basic information on gathering herbs.

I found this book to be very helpful to someone like me who didn’t know anything about herbal soaps and didn’t know where to start. I have already made several of the soaps and have been very pleased with them.

3 Stars Not for beginers….
I noticed that this book is lacking of showing how to work with the glycerine in order to make this soaps. I don’t believe this book is for beginers in soapmaking. Other than that, it has nice photos!

3 Stars Good lil book for ideas.
This is a nice lil book for ideas for healing soaps I use it more for the combinations of essential oils than the actual soap recipes. If you are new to soapmaking I would pair this with the book by Anne Watson called “Smart Soapmaking” and its always a good idea to get at least a couple good aromatherapy books to help figure out scenting and what goes well and what each oils properties are some oils although they smell good are not meant for every type of person to use its important to know what effects they can have on you, your families and or customers.

1 Star disappointing
When I ordered this book, it did not say it was only the melt and pour glycerin soaps. Sorry, I don’t consider that soap making. It’s like using Hamburger Helper then saying it’s homemade because you added the hamburger. This book is useless to me. The question is, do I hassle with sending it back or am I stuck with it? This book wasn’t even well written, kinda hokey. Buyer beware!

2 Stars Glycerin soap? Who knew!
I own another soap making book from Sandy Maine and enjoy it very much, so decided to try another one. After purchasing it from Amazon, I quickly realized that this book is strictly glycerine soaps. There was no indication of this from what I could tell. I wanted a book on actual soap making, not pre-made soap enhanced by botanicals. In summary, the title or book summary should mention that this book is about melt and pour soap only. Consequently, I returned the book.

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