Cosmetic Books

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Making Natural Liquid Soaps: Herbal Shower Gels / Conditioning Shampoos / Moisturizing Hand Soaps

Author: Catherine Failor
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Copyright: 2000
ISBN: 1580172431
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Who Will Find This Book Essential?

This in a guide to making some advanced soaps products that will interest the advances soap maker. The novices might want to try something less advanced.

Using a simple double-boiler technique, readers will make elegant and soothing liquid soaps. Dozens of recipes using oils, herbs, and other natural ingredients to create hand soaps, shower gels, bubble baths, conditioning shampoos even baby and pet shampoos.

Build on your skills with some very interesting techniques you can apply to tolietry products you make, a very popular book with advanced concepts.

What's Inside

The book's clear instructions and color photographs are excellent. However, procedures used are extremely time-consuming and require a lot of hands-on work. Basically, they're industrial techniques adapted for home use. Entirely different from making cold process bar soaps. Even for experienced hot process soap makers, at least 3-4 hours are needed to complete the initial phase. In liquid soap making, you have to be comfortable with using solvents and thickeners. Neutralizing and sequestering agents too. pH control and preservatives can be significant issues as well. Aside from that, you won't find a better consumer-level book on this interesting subject.  

I'm a novice but I still want to buy this book

The "Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques and Know-How" is an excellent guide to getting started with soapmaking, thing of it as a primer to Making Natural Liquid Soaps. Give it some thought if your a Freshman to soapmaking!

Also doesn't forget to take a good look online for website forums whose members discuss soap-making and their experiences.