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How To Make Your Own Soap ... In Traditional Bars, Liquid or Cream

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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



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