Our skin is our largest organ. We often think about how the things we put into our body effect us, but how much time do we take to consider how the things we put onto our body effect us? This timely book is packed full of helpful advice about how to make your own luxurious and beautiful soaps at home, using only the best natural ingredients. Not only are the soaps good for you, they look great and are wonderfully indulgent too. Sarah Ade begins by listing the natural ingredients available and their properties before describing how to put ingredients together for a specific purpose. She also discusses the benefits of a macrobiotic lifestyle and holistic skin care, and why your body will thank you for it. The recipes range from the fun and frivolous to sensible and serious and the text is packed with homemade skin care ideas. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in what they put onto their body as well as what goes inside.
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Sarah Ade is joint director of The BareNaked Soap Company a family-run holistic company who make soap and other skin care products using only the finest pure and natural ingredients.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
By bluefairy
Format:Paperback
I already own a couple of soap-making books, and have had a few goes at making my own soap. I wish I'd had this little book from the start though, as it explains the chemistry and processes of soapmaking very simply but comprehensively.
There's lots of lovely recipes to try, with detailed but clear instructions, and the emphasis firmly on natural ingredients. As well as the traditional cold-process method, it also covers how to make translucent and liquid soaps. A few of the recipes use some very expensive essential oils, such as jasmine and neroli - personally I think these are far too costly to use in soap and would substitute them with something cheaper myself! However there are plenty of less extravagant recipes, and also recipes for shampoo bars, shaving soap and even a soap for washing dogs! I learnt some new things from this book and the recipes look a bit more interesting than some in my other books, for example it explains how to make herbal infusions to use in your soap, instead of always using plain water, and how to make milk soaps.
It's a slight pity that all of the soap recipes contain palm oil, which is a rather controversial ingredient (due to rainforests being cleared to grow palm plantations). The author does stress to only use ethically produced palm oil, still it would have been nice to have a few palm-free recipes included.
Overall though I thought this book really good value for money, and surprisingly informative - I must say I only bought it as I came across it at a very cheap price, and I wasn't expecting such a small book with no photos to be that useful or interesting, but I was pleasantly surprised!
If you're wanting to try making your own soaps, I think this book would be an excellent place to start.
There's lots of lovely recipes to try, with detailed but clear instructions, and the emphasis firmly on natural ingredients. As well as the traditional cold-process method, it also covers how to make translucent and liquid soaps. A few of the recipes use some very expensive essential oils, such as jasmine and neroli - personally I think these are far too costly to use in soap and would substitute them with something cheaper myself! However there are plenty of less extravagant recipes, and also recipes for shampoo bars, shaving soap and even a soap for washing dogs! I learnt some new things from this book and the recipes look a bit more interesting than some in my other books, for example it explains how to make herbal infusions to use in your soap, instead of always using plain water, and how to make milk soaps.
It's a slight pity that all of the soap recipes contain palm oil, which is a rather controversial ingredient (due to rainforests being cleared to grow palm plantations). The author does stress to only use ethically produced palm oil, still it would have been nice to have a few palm-free recipes included.
Overall though I thought this book really good value for money, and surprisingly informative - I must say I only bought it as I came across it at a very cheap price, and I wasn't expecting such a small book with no photos to be that useful or interesting, but I was pleasantly surprised!
If you're wanting to try making your own soaps, I think this book would be an excellent place to start.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I own 3 soap making books to date this is the best by far! This book has good sound SAFE advice on soap making, great info on ingreadients and the recipes use vegetable oils. The downside of this book is there are no pretty photo's, of soap just hand-drawn illustrations. Not a book for the coffee table, more for the kitchen and getting stuck into making really good soap, from tried and tested recipes, if you only buy one book on soap making this in my opinion is the one to buy.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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The book is very clear and easy to follow.
The suppliers are all British, and the weighing system is dual UK/American.
It's assumed that you would prefer not to use animal fats, and uses a combination of palm oil and coconut oils with no animal fat recipes included.
What is interesting is that the author recommends lower temperatures 95-104 f, whereas other authors recommend higher temperatures of 130 f.
The lower temperatures ensures the oils and additives retain their therapeutic qualities.
A worthwhile buy, despite having no photographs to inspire the novice.
The suppliers are all British, and the weighing system is dual UK/American.
It's assumed that you would prefer not to use animal fats, and uses a combination of palm oil and coconut oils with no animal fat recipes included.
What is interesting is that the author recommends lower temperatures 95-104 f, whereas other authors recommend higher temperatures of 130 f.
The lower temperatures ensures the oils and additives retain their therapeutic qualities.
A worthwhile buy, despite having no photographs to inspire the novice.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
great advice for first time soap making
I was given this book as a gift and promptly ignored it for a year; However after panicking about christmas gifts and lack of cash I had a good look and was intrigued. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Kitwah
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not great for the beginner soap maker.
This was the first soap making book I got, and whilst it's a fairly sweet little book with some nice sounding recipes, I've had very little success with it. Read more
Published 8 months ago by C J R
4.0 out of 5 stars
good book
i have many book of soap making and this is not as good as others.
it's all about natural soapmaking. Read more
it's all about natural soapmaking. Read more
Published 12 months ago by mizwaste
3.0 out of 5 stars
Measurements
I may be wrong about this but I've noticed a discrepency in the weights/measures of essential oils. I would appreciate some help with this. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Bernie
5.0 out of 5 stars
well worth the money
great book for all who want to learn this fascinating art. Found it difficult to source some of the products, but went on 'soaposh' and found them all.
Published 22 months ago by Mrs. D. Roach
5.0 out of 5 stars
absolutely brilliant
this book is a winner for me, not only does it talk about soap and have fantastic reciepes but it also goes into why natural soap is good and talks about holistic impacts on your... Read more
Published on 4 April 2011 by vital living
3.0 out of 5 stars
Watch out!
On the whole this is a super little book for someone like me who is still in the beginning stages of soap making. Read more
Published on 24 Dec 2010 by rainbow
5.0 out of 5 stars
great little book
This book is great for beginers such as me.It will give you all the information you need in a very simple way to make natural good for your skin soap. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 2010 by coprinus
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for beginners
This book is so well written, it is interesting and not complicated to understand. I am just a beginner to soap making and this book really gave me a thorough knowledge into... Read more
Published on 27 Sep 2010 by Sarah
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Read!!!
This book is THE BEST book I have ever read on how to make soap!!! It is informative yet simple. Other books I have read make soap making seem like rocket science but this book... Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2010 by RavinBex
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