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Soaps fragrant with oils or spices, fizzing up the bath, or molded into perfect petals to place in a pretty jar beside the sink. Ones with guardian angels or good luck coins tucked inside. A virtual cornucopia of beautiful soaps will delight your senses... (read more)

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In response to fans of Cavitch's popular "The Natural Soap Book", she now presents this "big book on soapmaking", the most authoritative, comprehensive handbook around for making natural, vegetable-based soaps. Two-color throughout. Line drawings... (read more)

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Recipes and techniques for creating colorful and fragrant... (read more)

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It's fun to make your own natural soaps at home! Susan Miller Cavitch takes the mystery out of soapmaking, sharing her formulas for making high-quality vegetable-based soaps that are good for your skin -- and free of synthetic additives. The Natural Soap... (read more)

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"One can still make homemade soap with delightful fragrances and interesting textures....Provides detailed instructions and recipes for basic lye soaps made with animal or vegetable fats, and for hand-milled and specialty soaps using almond meal... (read more)

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Learn the basics of using molds and collecting materials. Did you know that oatmeal exfoliates and softens skin? Or, that rosebuds and peppermint possess therapeutic properties? Imagine all you can create: beauty bars, fun shapes for kids, tiny soaps... (read more)

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Soap--gentle, all natural, and handmade--makes a wonderful gift...for yourself or a friend! Create healthier, more beautiful, more fragrant soaps than anything you can find in a store, for a fraction of the cost, using simple equipment you probably... (read more)

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Time for some good, clean fun with dozens of safe soap projects for kids ages 8-12. Using safe, readily-available ingredients in melt-and-pour recipes, along with a variety of tantalizing fragrances, additives, and colorants, kids will have a blast... (read more)

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" A continuation of the projects found in Browning' s "Melt & Pour Soapmaking," using commercially available soap bases. ...There are also lovely molded soaps that one would hate to destroy by using. All of these soaps can be made using kitchen... (read more)

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Create dazzling soaps in the microwave! Want to make colorful, whimsical, eye-catching soaps in your own kitchen? Then let master crafter Kaila Westerman show you how to custom-design your own works of soap art using inexpensive soap base, readily... (read more)