Making Natural Liquid Soaps Herbal Shower Gels Conditioning Shampoos Moisturizing Hand Soaps
Making Natural Liquid Soaps Herbal Shower Gels Conditioning Shampoos Moisturizing Hand Soaps
Using a simple double-boiler technique, readers will make elegant and soothing liquid soaps. Dozens of recipes using oils, herbs, and other natural ingredients to create hand soaps, shower gels, bubble baths, conditioning shampoos and even baby and pet shampoos.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Making Natural Liquid Soaps
This book was informative, and it has excellent visual aides but I found it to be very confusing in parts. There are two basic methods described and these methods have variations. One method actually takes two days to prepare the soap which was not clearly stated from the start.
The explainations on discounting,oil sap rates and the basic mechanics of soap making were excellent, and while the information was useful, it certainly could have been grouped better to ease in the use of the book.
I certainly hope the author will make a revised version of this book, but until that time, this is a great reference for liquid soap making. I would encourage you to read it through several times to make sure you have a full grasp of what you need to have on hand and to make notes so that you don’t have to flip through the book to locate information while making your soap.
4 Stars Great Book, but Incomplete Recipes
I couldn’t wait to receive this book. What I was after were complete recipes to take the guess work out of making liquid soaps. However this is not the case. I still had to do the calculations that I was trying to avoid. The book has some great information in it, and great photo’s and I have already learnt a lot from it. It certainly will take a few reads for it all to sink in though and will make a great reference book. I would have still liked complete recipes to follow.
5 Stars Wonderful Reference!
This book is very helpful to the at-home soap-maker! It contains information about, not only the procedures to follow to make liquid soaps, but the reasons for using the different ingredients and the effect each will have on the finished product. The technical information included gives the reader a better understanding of the chemistry of saponification. It has a nice variety of recipes too. A wonderful reference!
4 Stars Make your own soaps
Very thorough book on making all kinds of soaps, gels, shampoos, etc. Good resource book also.
4 Stars Good resource book, but not complete enough for new soap makers
I am pleased I purchased this book of Catherine Failor’s. It does an decent job of explaining the liquid soap making process. There is a lot of valuable information. However, for someone making liquid soap for the first time, it is my opinion there is a lot of incomplete and/or unclear information. If you want to make liquid soap, this is a must for your technical library, but it is not the only book you will need.
