This book will guide you through creating your own liquid and bar soap. Design and create bars of soap using traditional methods that incorporate moisturising oils and butters, and make fun and funky glycerine soaps that look almost too fabulous to use. If you prefer liquid soaps then this book also explains how to create liquid and cream soaps from scratch as well as how to design body washes using many of the easily obtainable surfactants. In this book you will discover how to: * Choose soap making ingredients that will be most beneficial for your skin type * Design and create a range of soapy products including hand and body washes * Scent your soaps using essential and fragrance oils * Make glycerine melt and pour soap from scratch * Understand different soap making methods and techniques
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Design and create some stunningly beautiful, skin softening, amazingly moisturising soap.
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| Introduction |
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1 Making traditional bars of soap |
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Equipment needed to make traditional soap |
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2 | (6) |
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Choosing your soap making ingredients |
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8 | (1) |
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Safety advice for handling lye |
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9 | (15) |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (7) |
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34 | (22) |
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Special effects using colour |
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56 | (10) |
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Using botanicals, fruit and vegetables in your soap |
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66 | (20) |
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Substituting the water in your lye |
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86 | (1) |
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86 | (10) |
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Making beer and wine soaps |
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96 | (22) |
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118 | (8) |
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Adding salt to your soaps |
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126 | (2) |
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Adding silk to your soaps |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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Discounting the water in your soap |
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130 | (3) |
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133 | (20) |
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Equipment needed for making liquid soap |
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133 | (2) |
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Safety advice for handling liquid soap ingredients |
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135 | (5) |
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140 | (6) |
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146 | (7) |
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153 | (12) |
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Equipment needed for making cream soap |
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153 | (1) |
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Safety advice for handling cream soap ingredients |
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154 | (1) |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (8) |
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4 Crafting bars of soap using melt-and-pour soap base |
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165 | (32) |
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Safety when handling melt-and-pour soap base |
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166 | (1) |
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Different types of melt-and-pour soap base |
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166 | (2) |
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Equipment needed for making melt-and-pour soaps |
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168 | (2) |
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Preparing your melt-and-pour soap base for use |
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170 | (1) |
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Fragrancing your melt-and-pour soap base |
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170 | (1) |
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Colouring the melt-and-pour soap base |
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170 | (3) |
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Adding clays and powders to your soap base |
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173 | (1) |
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Recipes for melt-and-pour soap base |
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174 | (4) |
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Special effects with melt-and-pour soap |
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178 | (16) |
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Making your own melt-and-pour soap base from scratch |
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194 | (3) |
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197 | (10) |
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197 | (1) |
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Formulating with surfactants |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (5) |
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Making non-lye melt-and-pour soap from scratch |
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204 | (3) |
| Resources |
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207 | (2) |
| Index |
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Sally Hornsey runs Plush Folly, a cosmetic training company specialising in a range of cosmetic-making workshops, home study courses and kits. Sally has taught many students how to design a range of bar and liquid soaps for their own use, giving them the skills and knowledge needed to establish a flourishing business. Sally lives in Middlesex.
