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| The Soap Makers Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques and Know-how (Natural Body Series - The Natural Way to Enhance Your Life) |
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Second Best Soap Making Book
Although I find Susans first book The Natural Soap Book the best book on soapmaking, this comes in at a close second. Although much of the material is repeated from her first book, Susan supplements her previous information with interesting recipes, more information on products to use in your soap and a question and answer section. Im always reading and learning new things from Susan.
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Even more wonderful than "The Natural Soap Book"
I have had this book less than a week and have already dog-eared and stained it! This book is exactly what Cavitch claims it to be...the soapmakers companion. She includes new recipes, more info on scents, coloring, and chemistry. In addition, she has provided recipes that make smaller batches which can be made in a stand mixer. I was as impressed with this book as I was with "The Natural Soap Book". (The recipes are accurate, reliable, and make great-looking bars of soap!)
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THE "must-have" book on Soapmaking for beginners to pros!
This is one of my favorite books Ive found on the wonderful, newly found hobby of mine - Soapmaking!The author does a brilliant job of combining the must-have step-by-step detailed instructions on soapmaking basics for beginners, with the best list and descriptions of all soapmaking ingredients! Beginners and experts alike will enjoy the many tried and true recipes, even specialty soaps! It also covers the "Chemistry of soapmaking", including tables for making your own recipes! She even has a section on starting up your own business to sell your handmade soap creations! And it is all put together in an easy to understand and follow format, for us beginners, or "dummys" in soapmaking! The only reason that I rated this book at "4 stars", instead of "5 stars" is because it does not include any pictures (and I LOVE pictures!)- only the hand-drawn illustrations in green ink, as is the print, featured throughout the book. She does use alot of fragrances & different oils in her soap recipes, but includes a list of buying resources in the back. This, along with my other favorite book on soapmaking, "The Complete Soapmaker", by Norma Coney, (full of beautiful pictures!)which features mostly "hand-milled" or rebatched soaps, are the ones I find myself going to time and time again for reference and inspiration!
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Collectors Encyclopedia of Compacts, Carryalls and Face Powder Boxes: Identification and Values: Vol 2
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Wonderfull photography of a very wide selection of face powder compacts. Lots of usefull information for the novice collector, could spend hours just leafing through these beautifull colourfull pages...
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The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-based Soaps
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This is _the_ book to acquire if you are planning to make vegetable oil based soap. Theres a lot of information packed in this book. It presents all the elements of soapmaking very systematically, and explains the simple chemistry and logic behind the recipes and techniques. It specializes on the be..
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Collectors Encyclopedia of Compacts, Carryalls and Face Powder Boxes: Identification and Values: v. 1
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THIS BOOK HAS AN EXCELLENT WRITE UP ABOUT COMPACTS,CARRYALLS, POWDER BOWLS ADS.ETC.
IT IS THE MOST INTERESTING AND KNOWLEGEABLE BOOK I HAVE READ!..
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Herbal Body Book: A Natural Approach to Healthier Skin, Hair and Nails
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This book has a lot of great info and recipes, but if you are not an experinced soapmaker, you probably will not have the ingredients you need. First there are a lot of things you have to get at the grocery/drug store: distilled water, glycerine, corn meal, oatmeal, olive oil, baking soda, cornstarc..
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Vintage Ladies Compacts
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A good comprehensive guide to collecting compacts.
This book includes great photographs, a wide range of advice for new and existing compacts collectors and a sensible valuation guide. Would have liked more individual information, for instance, regarding dating Stratton compacts. However this boo..
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