Natural Soap

by Melinda Coss

Here is everything you need to know to create natural, luxurious soaps at home. Bestselling author and professional soap maker Melinda Coss shows how to make a wonderful range of bar and liquid soaps as well as exquisite creams, lotions, and balms. With a wide choice of design, color, and scent there's a perfect soap here for everyone. More than 40 easy-to-follow recipes focus on natural, eco-friendly ingredients. Discover how to make pure and gentle soaps that soothe allergy-prone skin. You'll enjoy mixing, molding, and packaging indulgent delights like Fig and Honey Exfoliant Bars, Sleeping Beauty Heavy Night Cream, Gardeners' Skin Balm, Dead Sea Mud Spa Treatment, and many more. Natural Soap, Second Edition includes a basic tutorial on soap making techniques, a well-organized guide to ingredients, and beautiful color photography. All of the equipment needed is fully explained, so even a beginner can start making soap in no time. The author reveals her trade secrets to creating the perfect aromatic blends, and even offers valuable advice on setting up your own soap making business.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts

144 pages, Paperback

Published February 9, 2016

About the author

Sometimes I feel as if I have lived a hundred lives. You might recognise me as a craft author as I wrote a load of books about crafts back in the eighties and nineties. Or you may have heard my name associated with soap and skincare as, late in the nineties I created what became the largest handmade soap company in the UK. For the last fifteen years I have worked as a coach and business mentor to entrepreneurs wanting to build skincare business but at 72 I have decided to pivot yet again and my latest book "Your Age Is Your Business" (which you will find on Amazon and in good bookshops). really celebrates the gift of getting older and blows open the myth that we diminish rather than flourish when it comes to brain power and the ability to earn a serious living.
My purpose is to show those over 50 who are feeling unemployable or are bored with retirement that they can use the internet to sell what they have learned during their life journey.....and I'm nowhere near finished yet ! I'll let you know when I've decided what to do when I grow up.

Reviews

[Esme · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a very good read for those who are serious about making soap and taking it to the next level i.e. running a soap business. Cross is detailed in how she writes and gives comprehensive information on what is needed, the ingredients etc. I cracked this book open thinking that making soap would be easy but I was really wrong! Soap making is a craft and I now have a better understanding of all those who make it.

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many good looking recipes for soaps, creams, and bath melts.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

an over of a number of diy cosmetics including soap. most interested in the rebatching soap and the liquid soap recipes.

[Bianca Nicola · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful basic information. It contains lots of recipes and ideas, sap values, guidance. Useful for both a beginner or an experienced soap maker.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great reference for soapmakers at any level

Basic, direct to the point with a touch of the author's personality. It's like doing the soap with Melinda beside me.