Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with The Nerdy Farm Wife's Easy Recipes and Techniques

Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with The Nerdy Farm Wife's Easy Recipes and Techniques

by Jan Berry
Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with The Nerdy Farm Wife's Easy Recipes and Techniques

Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with The Nerdy Farm Wife's Easy Recipes and Techniques

by Jan Berry

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Overview

Create Fabulous Modern Soaps The Truly Natural, Eco-Friendly Way

With this new comprehensive guide, herbalist Jan Berry offers everything the modern-day enthusiast needs to make incredible botanical soaps. Beginners can join in the sudsy fun with detailed tutorials and step-by-step photographs for making traditional cold-process soap and the more modern hot-process method with a slow cooker. Jan presents 50 easy, unique soap recipes with ingredients and scents inspired by the herb garden, veggie garden, farm, forest and more. Sample soap recipes you won’t want to miss are Lavender Milk Bath Bars, Sweet Honey & Shea Layers Soap, Creamy Avocado Soap, Citrus Breeze Brine Bars, Mountain Man Beard & Body Bars and Classic Cedarwood & Coconut Milk Shave Soap. Featured resources are Jan’s handy guides to common soapmaking essential oils and their properties, oil and milk infusions with healing herbs and easy decoration techniques. The book also contains Jan’s highly anticipated natural colorants gallery showcasing more than 50 soaps that span the rainbow. Soap crafters of all levels will enjoy referencing this book for years to come.

*All recipes are sustainably palm-free!*

Expand your herbal product collection with these other books in Jan Berry's bestselling series:
- Easy Homemade Melt & Pour Soaps (newly released!)
- The Big Book of Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home (coming April 2020, available for pre-order now)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781624143847
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Publication date: 08/08/2017
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 158,452
Product dimensions: 8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jan Berry is the soapmaker and herbalist behind The Nerdy Farm Wife. She’s also the author of 101 Easy Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home. Jan lives on a small farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband and two teenagers, where she enjoys gardening, crafting pretty herbal concoctions, caring for a menagerie of farm animals and, of course, soapmaking.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Part 1 Getting Started Making Simple Natural Soaps 9

Why We Need Lye & How to Handle It Safely 10

How to Check a Soap Recipe with a Lye Calculator 11

Soapmaking Equipment 12

Soapmaking Oils & Fats & Their Properties 14

Shelf Life of Soap & Extending It 17

How to Read Recipes 17

Cold Process Soap Making Directions 19

How to Convert a Cold Process Recipe into a Hot Process Recipe 22

Tips for Safely Cleaning Up 24

Cutting, Curing & Storing Soaps 24

Part 2 Recipes 27

The Simplest Basics 27

Easiest Ever Castile Soap 29

Beginner's Bastille Soap 30

Creamy Shea Butter Bastille Soap 33

Pure Coconut Oil Bars 34

Old-Fashioned Lye Soap 37

Basic Palm-Free Soap Recipes (3 Customizable Versions) 38

Soaps from the Herb Garden 41

Lavender Chamomile Shampoo & Body Bars 43

Double Mint Tiger Stripe Soap 44

Grandma's Yellow Roses Soap 47

Soothing Comfrey & Aloe Soap 48

Purple Basil & Mint Layers Soap 51

Sunny Dandelion Oatmeal Soap 52

Weedy Greens Jewelweed & Plantain Soap 55

Chamomile Tallow Bars 56

Soaps from the Orchard & Veggie Garden 59

Pumpkin Oatmeal Soap 60

Warm Apple Spice & Ginger Soap 63

Simply Carrot Soap 64

Creamy Avocado Soap 67

Heirloom Tomato Soap 68

Fresh Aloe & Cucumber Soap 71

Sunny Corn Silk & Sunflower Soap 72

Soaps from the Farm 75

Goat Milk Shampoo Bars 76

Lavender Milk Bath Bars 79

Classic Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Soap 80

Vanilla Bean & Egg Yolk Soap 83

Milk Chocolate Mint Soap 84

Cottage Garden Soaps 86

Soaps from the Sea 89

Citrus Breeze Brine Bars 90

Cambrian Blue Cooling Salt Bars 93

Rejuvenating Dead Sea Clay Facial Bars 94

Beach Bum Layered Soap 97

Coconut Milk Shampoo Sticks 98

Sea Salt & Seaweed Soap 101

Soaps from the Apiary 103

Sweet Honey & Shea Layers Soap 105

Propolis & Dandelion Soap 106

Honey & Beeswax Soap 109

Orange Honey Shampoo Bars 110

Bee Pollen & Honey Soap 113

Wild Rosehips & Honey Soap 114

Soaps from the Forest 117

Fir Needle & Mint Shampoo & Body Bars 119

Zesty Juniper Berry & Orange Soap 120

Classic Cedarwood & Coconut Milk Shave Soap 123

Mountain Man Beard, Shampoo & Body Bars 126

Old Fashioned Pine Tar Soap 129

Lumberjack Soap 130

Soaps from the Spa 133

Regenerating French Clay & Yogurt Soap 135

Cucumber & Charcoal Swirl Soap 136

Soothing Red Rooibos & Rhassoul Clay Soap 139

Mocha Coffee Bean Scrub Bars 140

Triple Butter Silk & Agave Soap 143

Part 3 Techniques & Tips to Take Soapmaking to the Next Level 144

Tips for Working With Natural Soap Colorants 145

Photo Gallery of Natural Soap Colorants 146

Essential Oils & Usage Rates in Soap 155

How to Blend Essential Oils 158

Other Natural Soap Ingredients & Additives 161

Using Herbal Infusions to Enrich Soap Recipes 162

Suggested Herbs for Infusions 162

Preparing Herbal Oil Infusions 164

Preparing Herbal Tea Infusions 165

Preparing Herbal Milk Infusions 166

3 Ways to Add Milk to Soap 166

Natural Soap Tops 166

Simple Layers 170

Pencil Line 173

Tiger Stripe 174

In the Pot Swirl 177

Funnel Pour 178

Impression Mats 180

Soap Stamps 181

Part 4 Troubleshooting 182

Common Soapmaking Issues 182

How to Rebatch or Save a Soap 185

Confetti Soap 186

Resources 187

About the Author 188

Acknowledgments 188

Index 189

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