Making Natural Liquid Soaps: Herbal Shower Gels, Conditioning Shampoos, Moisturizing Hand Soaps, Luxurious Bubble Baths, and more

by Catherine Failor

Overview

Make our own liquid soaps and body products right in your kitchen. Catherine Failor shows you how to use her simple double-boiler technique to create luxurious shower gels, revitalizing shampoos, energizing body scrubs, and much more. Step-by-step instructions teach you how to turn basic ingredients like cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba into sweet-smelling liquid soaps. You’ll soon be experimenting with your favorite oils and additives as you craft custom-made products that are kind to your nose and gentle on your skin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580172431
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	04/15/2000
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	924,201
Product dimensions:	7.05(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Catherine Failor has been making soap for more than 20 years. Her experience in graphic design and interest in science has enabled her to test hot-process soapmaking, a technique not usually accessible to the home soapmaker. She has developed new ways to make colorful, scented soaps in the home kitchen, and shares them in her Storey books, Making Transparent Soap and Making Natural Liquid Soaps. Failor's entrepreneurial ventures include Copra Soap, a specialty soap manufacturing company, and her current venture, Milky Way Molds, producing the finest selection of craft molds in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to Soap

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 2: A Guide to Basic Techniques

Chapter 3: Formulating Blends

Chapter 4: Premium Natural Shampoos

Chapter 5: Sumptuous Bath & Shower Gels

Chapter 6: Luxurious Bubble Baths

Chapter 7: Dyeing & Fragrancing

Chapter 8: Troubleshooting

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