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Soap and Candlemaking

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The Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques, and Know-How
The Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques, and Know-How
by Susan Miller Cavitch
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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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Soap Making (Self-Sufficiency)
Soap Making (Self-Sufficiency)
by Sarah Ade
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We often think about how the things we put into our body affect us, but how much time do we take to consider how the things we put onto our body? This timely book is packed full of helpful advice about how to make your own luxurious and beautiful soaps... (read more)

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The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps
The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps
by Susan Mille Cavitch
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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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Melt & Pour Soapmaking
Melt & Pour Soapmaking
by Marie Browning
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“If you love handmade soaps, but hate the boutique price, then turn to this comprehensive volume which offers recipes for dozens of exotic soaps made from both easy-to-melt bases and hand-milled bases.”—Crafts. “Projects use... (read more)

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Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics)
Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics)
by Elizabeth Letcavage
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Hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photographs illustrate exactly how to make cold-process soap. Instructions on molding soap, cutting bars, creating original recipes, packaging gifts, and more. Includes a chapter on constructing a soap mold, liner... (read more)

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Milk-Based Soaps: Making Natural, Skin-Nourishing Soap
Milk-Based Soaps: Making Natural, Skin-Nourishing Soap
by Casey Makela
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Learn how to make moisturizing milk-based soaps like Oatmeal, Peaches and Cream, and specialty soaps, as well as how to turn this hobby into a moneymaker!... (read more)

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Candle Making: a Step By Step Guide From Beginner To Expert
Candle Making: a Step By Step Guide From Beginner To Expert
by Bob Sherman
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Candlemaking is an ancient and highly enjoyable art. It is also a $2.3 billion industry. In this comprehensive book, readers will learn how to create many different kinds of candles, including flame candles, balloon candles, and pudding candles. There... (read more)

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Melt & Pour Soapmaking
Melt & Pour Soapmaking
by Marie Browning
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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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The Soap Book: Simple Herbal Recipes
The Soap Book: Simple Herbal Recipes
by Sandy Maine
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Fire Light, Forest Garden, Gentlemen Farmer, Lemon Verbena, Oat and Wheat Branthis is but a sampling of the thirty wonderful recipes you'll find in this guide to making soap. History, chemistry, equipment, plants, and oilseverything you need to know to... (read more)

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Soapylove: Squeaky-Clean Projects Using Melt-And-Pour Soap
Soapylove: Squeaky-Clean Projects Using Melt-And-Pour Soap
by Debbie Chialtas
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Melt & Pour and so much more Soapylove shows you how to turn a glycerin melt-and-pour soap base into tempting, stylish soaps. Youall learn fun and easy techniques for 25 yummy projects featuring bright colors, amazing designs and delicious scents... (read more)

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Everything Candlemaking Book (Everything)
Everything Candlemaking Book (Everything)
by Marie-jeanne Abadie
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Abadie has written a complete guide to making all kinds of candles at home, from making simple tapers and columns to layered, molded, and twisted candles. Full-color photos provide inspiration to let creativity flow. Illustrations.... (read more)

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Great Candles
Great Candles
by Stewart D'arcy Hyder
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"[Instructs] us in the finer details of a decorative craft...excellent step-by-step color photographs, starting with the most basic tapers to elegantly sculpted calla lilies that flicker...an awesomely artistic gallery of commercial...lights."--"Booklist.... (read more)

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The Everything Soapmaking Book: Recipes and Techniques for Creating Colorful and Fragrant Soaps (Everything)
The Everything Soapmaking Book: Recipes and Techniques for Creating Colorful and Fragrant Soaps (Everything)
by Alicia Grosso
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Recipes and techniques for creating colorful and fragrant... (read more)

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99 Bath Time Treats
99 Bath Time Treats
by Susannah Marriott
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[back cover] Blissful tips for a beautiful bath time Original recipes to reinvigorate and refreshhow to create a Thai poppy seed scrub, coconut milk bath, or an eastern moisture balm. Sensual ways to relaxsoak away the strain in a petal-filled tub. Spa... (read more)

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Candles Making and Displaying
Candles Making and Displaying
by Gloria Nicol
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A beautiful gift book; a style and decorating book; and a wonderful practical project book.... (read more)

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Melt & Mold Soap Crafting
Melt & Mold Soap Crafting
by C Kaila Westerman
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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)

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Relax To the Max: 60 Candles, Scents, Soaps & Potpourri Crafts To Create Your Own Bliss
Relax To the Max: 60 Candles, Scents, Soaps & Potpourri Crafts To Create Your Own Bliss
by Rosevita Warda
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Slow down (maybe even stop), and smell the roses--and the jasmine, sandalwood, peppermint, and citrus blends, too. These remarkable fragrant candles, soaps, and potpourris make it simple for overworked, stressed-out women to experience the relaxing... (read more)

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Candles: Fast and Fabulous Projects (Instant Gratification)
Candles: Fast and Fabulous Projects (Instant Gratification)
by Carol Endl Sterbenz
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Give the gift of light. Nothing radiates warmth and good cheer like a handmade candle--and their incredible popularity proves it. Instant Gratification: Candles demonstrates how easy it is to achieve truly elegant results by decorating purchased candles... (read more)

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The Complete Soapmaker: Tips, Techniques & Recipes for Luxurious Handmade Soaps
The Complete Soapmaker: Tips, Techniques & Recipes for Luxurious Handmade Soaps
by Norma Coney
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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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Handmade Soap Book
Handmade Soap Book
by Melinda Coss
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In a world filled with artificial and synthetic products, this book shows you how to creat your own soaps and bathtime luxuries using only natural ingredients and very little specialized equipment. Gorgeous photography and simple, easy-to-follow recipes... (read more)

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