Handmade, Homemade Soap Recipes: The Art of Natural Soap Making

By Rebecca Ittner
Published on November 11, 2010
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Craft unique, beautiful and wonderfully scented soap with all-natural ingredients.
Craft unique, beautiful and wonderfully scented soap with all-natural ingredients.
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"Soapmaking the Natural Way" offers the fundamental techniques of soap making as well as more than 45 melt-and-pour recipes using herbs, flowers and essential oils.

Simple techniques meet all-natural soaps Soapmaking the Natural Way by Rebecca Ittner (Lark Crafts, 2010). Ittner offers advice about how to make eco-friendly and health-conscious handmade soaps using the melt-and-pour method. The following excerpt, from the Introduction, discusses her definition of the art of “natural” soap making.

This book can be purchased from the Mother Earth Living store: Soapmaking the Natural Way.

Natural Soap Recipes

Milk and Honey Soap
Simply Lavender Soap

Crafters have many interpretations of the term “natural soap crafting.” On one end of the spectrum, it can mean using only organic, chemical-free ingredients including soap bases, additives, colorants, and fragrances. On the other end, “natural” can mean simply avoiding animal- or petroleum-based products. For purposes of this book, “natural” means avoiding all animal- and petroleum-based products, synthetic colorants, and fragrances.

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