How To Make Your Own Soap ... In Traditional Bars, Liquid or Cream
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Making traditional bars of soap
Equipment needed to make traditional soap
Choosing your soap making ingredients
Safety advice for handling lye
Fragrancing your soap
Colouring your soap
Soap making methods
Special effects using colour
Using botanicals, fruit and vegetables in your soap
Substituting the water in your lye
Making milk soaps
Making beer and wine soaps
Making honey soaps
Adding salt to your soaps
Adding silk to your soaps
Superfatting your soap
Discounting the water in your soap
2 Making liquid soap
Equipment needed for making liquid soap
Safety advice for handling liquid soap ingredients
How to make liquid soap
Recipes for liquid soap
3 Making cream soap
Equipment needed for making cream soap
Safety advice for handling cream soap ingredients
How to make cream soap
Recipes for cream soap
4 Crafting bars of soap using melt-and-pour soap base
Safety when handling melt-and-pour soap base
Different types of melt-and-pour soap base
Equipment needed for making melt-and-pour soaps
Preparing your melt-and-pour soap base for use
Fragrancing your melt-and-pour soap base
Colouring the melt-and-pour soap base
Adding clays and powders to your soap base
Recipes for melt-and-pour soap base
Special effects with melt-and-pour soap
Making your own melt-and-pour soap base from scratch
5 Using surfactants
What are surfactants?
Formulating with surfactants
Surfactant recipes
Making non-lye melt-and-pour soap from scratch