Customer Reviews

Making Natural Liquid Soaps: Herbal Shower Gels, Conditioning Shampoos, Moisturizing Hand Soaps, Luxurious Bubble Baths, and more

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I bought this book not knowing what to expect since I had read other books on liquid soap and the results I got were pretty bad!
Excellent step by step instructions! I have made over 250 bottles of liquid soap for a craft fair in my country (venezuela) My Best selling items so far!.
Recipes are not quite what one expects for hair shampoos but for everything else (gels, bubble baths, etc) they are just great!
I do recomend this book 100%. I promise you'll be surprise at how easy and inexpensive it is to supply your own household with great Shower Gels.

I've made several dozen batches of cold-process soap over the last year. I was very excited to try the recipes and techniques in this book. Oy vey, what a production! I read the book three times cover-to-cover and was still thoroughly confused and intimidated.The book is badly organized and sometimes contradictory. Finally, in desperation, I decided to make the "Translucent Liquid Soap" recipe in Cavitch's Soapmaker's Comapanion. Blessedly simple by comparison, and after my first batch the Faillor techniques began to make a bit more sense. .The (Cavitch) recipe turned out nicely, and once I get a bit more practice, I will look forward to making Faillor's recipes, but take my word for it, a beginner would be thoroughly befuddled by this book.

Just finished reading the book. I can understand how some can get confused.

Log onto [yahoo] and check out groups and look for the soap forums which will help you understand more. The people on the soap forums will lead you to links and books for additional help for liquid soaps.

I understood the book. It actually make me want to hop online and start purchasing additional supplies to making liquid soap.

Pictures and recipes were delightful.

The only problem was that the author used coconut oil as part of her recipes and I use only palm kernel oil. However, there are other web sites that I can calculate the palm kernel oil.

You must read carefully and if you don't understand, stop and hop online and start surfing the net for help in regards to making liquid soaps.

This book was referred to me and I do not regret the purchase.

It has helped tremendously!!!!!

It's as easy as that: Read the book and make liquid soap. On the advice of another reviewer, I bought "The Soapmaker's Companion to help me understand Failor's book, Making Natural Liquid Soaps. Doing that was totally unnecessary. I found Making Natural Liquid Soaps to be well laid out, going smoothly from Making Liquid Soaps 101 to Making Liquid Soaps 202 with pictures, explanations and ingredient information as needed. It has everything you need. It's easy to follow and understand. I listened to someone on a website that suggested using a slow-cooker to make liquid soap. I bought the slow-cooker and tested it; it doesn't get hot enough to make soap and you won't be able to cool it fast enough in the event of a foam-over, which happens in seconds. I bought a stock pot and a canning pot to make a double-boiler, just like Failor said and it works very well. She knows what she's talking about. There's a lot of experience behind her instructions. After the basic instructions, there is a section Formulating Your Own Soap that teaches you how to go beyond someone else's recipes. In fact, for my first batch of liquid soap, I devised my own recipe, finding a plethora of pertinent information in the book to help me make good decisions. It took six hours, from setting up to clean-up and I have six quarts of nice, clear liquid soap to show for it. Now I'm planning to make smaller batches of one quart each: a dish soap, a conditioning shampoo, a shower gel, and more. This is a fun, useful, new hobby. Thank you Catherine Failor!

I was very excited when I bought this book I couldn't wait to get home and start making my very own soap! Than I opened the book and was thoroughly confused! Terrible editing, Awful directions, that often have no rhyme or reason! I have ruined 3 batches of soap already. I have read the book from front to back 5 or 6 times and only after 2 of my friends and I sat down together and read the entire book together did we finally start putting together what the author is so poorly trying to teach you! I do not recommend this book unless you are prepared to spend hours trying to decipher it!

c est un must si on désire se lancer dans le monde du savon liquide et le faire soi-meme.

I am an experienced cold process soap maker (having made dozens of batches in the last 2 years), but wanted to add liquid soaps to my line of products. Because I wanted to do it from "scratch", I bought this book. It was so confusing! I couldn't follow it at all. I have to agree with the other person about Cavitch's directions--so much easier to understand!

This was one of the most fun advanced soapmaking projects I've ever done. I love the way Ms. Faillor writes - instructive and friendly.

very informative and practical! the book takes you from first step to last not fogeting to explain every step of the way!
it can be comfterbly used by total beginers - the more practist reader will find new facts, clarafy standing questions and give a stronger base for creativity!
very good writing and explanations.
highly recomended!

I haven't tried any of the recipes in this book. However, they all look like they are doable and that they should turn out wonderful. I liked the introduction that explained what you need, why and where to get it. Easy to read and understand.