Making Scented Soap : Recipes for over 60 Handmade Soaps

by Linda Hamblen

Think of the wonderful perfume of summer flowers, garden herbs and citrus groves. Nature's harvest yields an abundance of evocative scents to woo our senses. Making Scented Soap uses these natural fragrances - from pure essential oils, herbs, spices and flower petals - combined with the traditional craft of soap making to show you how to create an array of beautiful and aromatic gentle castile soaps for baby soft skins, shaving bars with a foaming lather and liquid soaps and shower washes that smell simply divine. For a rustic look, create your own exfoliating scrub soaps topped with seeds and herbs and clear soaps infused with scented flower petals. This book shows you how to use the arts of perfumery and soap making to make temptingly scented treats either for yourself or as perfect handmade presents.

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2005

Reviews

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. It's one of the first I've read on the topic and I liked that there are beautiful pictures accompanying the recipes, there is a two-page spread identifying bad results and what the potential cause could have been. It's a lovely book that I zipped through.

[Laurie Cybulski · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has some pictures if you are new to soap/ bath bomb making. However, there are fewer bath bomb recipes, which is what I was looking for. It had a glossary which was helpful and an extensive list of the essential oils and their uses.