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This book offers simple techniques and sophisticated, 100 per cent natural soaps that please the eye and the environment. The melt-and-pour method offers readers a safe and accessible way to make soaps at home without investing in elaborate tools or supplies and author Rebecca Ittner's friendly, you-can-too writing style invites both the novice and the aficionado to delve into the world of soapmaking. The eco-friendly, animal-free ingredients featured in each project span a delicious range from oatmeal, lavender, sweet almond butter and coconut milk to honeysuckle, orange cream, clay and fresh mint. Not only are the ingredients used luscious, they (and the basic soapmaking tools and supplies) are all readily available at standard craft supply shops. The reader will find this book to be an affordable, inviting and informative resource as well as an inspiring collection of projects.
About the Author
Rebecca Ittner is a magazine and book editor, writer, photo stylist and craft enthusiast. Her work has been featured in many magazines craft books. To see more of Rebecca's work, visit rebeccaittner.etsy.com or read her blog at livelovecraft.com.
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3.8 out of 5 stars (21 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Pictures are deceiving, but the soap is still nice., April 15 2011
By *Michelle* - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Soapmaking the Natural Way: 45 Melt-and-Pour Recipes Using Herbs, Flowers & Essential Oils (Hardcover)
I purchased this book because I wanted some nice and easy melt-and-pour recipes. With lots of little ones underfoot, I don't want to mess around with lye. I'd never be able to get anything made!So far, I've made two of the recipes in the book: the brown sugar and vanilla soap and the lavender soap. The instructions were easy to follow and the soaps smelled wonderful and worked well. However, neither looked anything like the pictures in the book.
For the brown sugar and vanilla soap, the picture shows a bar that looks similar in color to a Neutrogena bar. When I added the specified amount of vanilla essential oil, the mixture turned almost black. Still pretty, but not what I expected. The second time I made it, I just added a few drops of vanilla EO to darken the soap slightly and add fragrance.
The lavender soap only lists three ingredients: olive oil suspension base, dried lavender flowers, and lavender essential oil. Yet the soap pictured is a deep, translucent purple. Not having any experience in soapmaking, I assumed that either the essential oil or the lavender flowers would provide the colorant. Of course, neither did. The lavender EO is clear and the flowers, while beautiful and fragrant, did not leach any type of color into the mixture. I basically wound up with a clear bar dotted with small flower heads. Still pretty, but again, not what I expected.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very nice natural recipes for glycerin soap crafting, Aug 18 2010
By Deborah Chialtas "Soapylove" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Soapmaking the Natural Way: 45 Melt-and-Pour Recipes Using Herbs, Flowers & Essential Oils (Hardcover)
The cover of this book sold me instantly! I'm a sucker for anything about glycerin soap and I was so excited to see a book focusing on natural recipes using melt and pour soap.When I received it I enjoyed looking at the finished soap photos but was disappointed that there weren't any step-by-step pictures. However, the book covers many natural ingredients that can be used which was just what I hoped for, and the projects are easy enough for a beginner.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
melon essential oil anyone? haha!, Jan 17 2012
By Inger L. Genest "herbsoapmetalgirl" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Soapmaking the Natural Way: 45 Melt-and-Pour Recipes Using Herbs, Flowers & Essential Oils (Paperback)
Full disclosure: I make and sell cold process & and my own formula of melt and pour (ie., transparent soap that I make from scratch then melt down, color, add scent, etc). I have been making/selling both formulas for 5+ years and am not attempting to color myself as "better" than anyone who wants to enjoy a new craft (soapmaking) if they use a manufactured melt and pour soap base.I will, however, call this author on her use of the word "natural" in the book, since most m&p bases are not very natural. Also want to call her on the fact that she states in each recipe that the oils she uses to scent the soap are "essential oils". First, there is no such thing as "melon essential oil" or "black raspberry essential oil". Most fruity/tropical scents (melon, coconut, mango, strawberry, raspberry, cherry--you get the idea) are only available in fragrance oils, which are synthetic. She also uses a number of cost-prohibitive, very expensive essential oils. The oils to which I am referring are jasmine, sandalwood, vanilla, rose and neroli. Prior to writing this review, I checked with my raw materials suppliers and most of the essential oils I listed run between $25-$50 for 0.25 ounces (7.39 ml) of the essential oil. 0.25 ounces is 2.39 ml more than a teaspoon (which is 5 ml) and the author suggests that the reader use 1/2-2 teaspoons of each EO in any given recipe. This makes the cost, on average of a 1 pound batch of m&p soap in the $25-$50+ range. I find it very hard to believe that most crafters out there are interested in spending that much dough on one lousy batch of soap (which usually gives you 4-6 bars).
Where were the editors of this book? Its published by Lark Crafts for crying out loud; one would think that a publisher that prints craft books would know or have some knowledge of essential oils.
I thank the two other reviewers that gave this book one star; they both stated what I wanted to say just as well (if not better!) than I would have.
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