How To Make Your Own Soap

by Sally Hornsey

Overview

This book will guide you through creating your own liquid and bar soap. Design and create bars of soap using traditional methods that incorporate moisturising oils and butters, and make fun and funky glycerine soaps that look almost too fabulous to use.

If you prefer liquid soaps then this book also explains how to create liquid and cream soaps from scratch as well as how to design body washes using many of the easily obtainable surfactants.

In this book you will discover how to:

· Choose soap making ingredients that will be most beneficial for your skin type
· Design and create a range of soapy products including hand and body washes
· Scent your soaps using essential and fragrance oils
· Make glycerine melt and pour soap from scratch
· Understand different soap making methods and techniques

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908974235
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	12/01/2015
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Sally Hornsey runs Plush Folly, a cosmetic training company specialising in a range of cosmetic-making workshops, home study courses and kits. Sally has taught many students how to design a range of bar and liquid soaps for their own use, giving them the skills and knowledge needed to establish a flourishing business. Sally lives in Middlesex.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction xi

1 Making traditional bars of soap 1

Equipment needed to make traditional soap 2

Choosing your soap making ingredients 8

Safety advice for handling lye 9

Fragrancing your soap 24

Colouring your soap 27

Soap making methods 34

Special effects using colour 56

Using botanicals, fruit and vegetables in your soap 66

Substituting the water in your lye 86

Making milk soaps 86

Making beer and wine soaps 96

Making honey soaps 118

Adding salt to your soaps 126

Adding silk to your soaps 128

Superfatting your soap 129

Discounting the water in your soap 130

2 Making liquid soap 133

Equipment needed for making liquid soap 133

Safety advice for handling liquid soap ingredients 135

How to make liquid soap 140

Recipes for liquid soap 146

3 Making cream soap 153

Equipment needed for making cream soap 153

Safety advice for handling cream soap ingredients 154

How to make cream soap 154

Recipes for cream soap 157

4 Crafting bars of soap using melt-and-pour soap base 165

Safety when handling melt-and-pour soap base 166

Different types of melt-and-pour soap base 166

Equipment needed for making melt-and-pour soaps 168

Preparing your melt-and-pour soap base for use 170

Fragrancing your melt-and-pour soap base 170

Colouring the melt-and-pour soap base 170

Adding clays and powders to your soap base 173

Recipes for melt-and-pour soap base 174

Special effects with melt-and-pour soap 178

Making your own melt-and-pour soap base from scratch 194

5 Using surfactants 197

What are surfactants? 197

Formulating with surfactants 198

Surfactant recipes 199

Making non-lye melt-and-pour soap from scratch 204

Resources 207

Index 209