Simple & Natural Soapmaking: Create 100% Pure and Beautiful Soaps with The Nerdy Farm Wife’s Easy Recipes and Techniques

excellent book :: must have

Bought this book when we started out with soapmaking and we’ve been successful in all our batches. I love the variety and use of various ingredients - it makes it fun and exciting to use different items from the garden, forest, etc. Now that we’re more comfortable with the process, the book offers ideas for base soaps with various scent combos. The back of the book has good natural color guides and troubleshooting. The only soap book you’ll need - love it!

I absolutely love this book! Not only are all of the soaps completely natural, but there are so many recipes and such a wide array of ingredients, that there is sure to be something for everyone. All of these recipes are also palm free, whooo hooo(sorry, a little excited)! The recipes range from beginner to advanced. The troubleshooting section is excellent (with photos too), describing every problem you can imagine. I'd have to say my absolute favorite part of this book is the natural colorant section. There is every shade you can imagine, no color was left out. What makes it amazing, are the pictures showing you the results of each colorant, and how much to use for which shade (for example blue cambrian clay can produce many shades from light blue to dark blue to grey, depending on how much clay is used). I love knowing that these recipes are tried and true, and the pictures are so very, very appealing to the eye. Every recipe has its own ingredients list, recipe, step by step instructions, photographs, and many of them also have step by step pictures along with the written instructions, and every soap has it's own final photo showing the results, which I love. She also goes over making designs in the soap with step by step instruction and photos. I've so far made the lavender milk soap and propolis dandelion soap, both came out perfect! My next soaping adventure is the amazing shaving soap recipe provided. It's dreamy, and I love that the author found an alternative to using stearic acid*,(*shave soap just isn't shave soap without it!). I'm not going to be a spoiler, you'll have to read the book to find out! I've been soaping for years and I really love having all these recipes laid out beautifully in a book. This book has so much more than I'd hope. I also love Jan Berry's other book, but I must say I love this one even more! If you're looking for the perfect all natural soap book, this is it! Even if you're experienced with soaping this book is sure to have many recipes for you! So many amazing recipes and combinations, so little time! I've added a few pics to show the awesome layout and the stunning photography of this book. I honestly love each and every recipe, they're all so well thought out, and you can tell a lot of research went into this book, as there is information on each and every ingredient used (and a section dedicated to describing ingredients and what their additions to soap provide, for example castor oil and coconut oil both enrich a soaps lather)! Being a visual person, I love the photos for each and every soap. It also assures me that each and every soap is tried and true, and not just a bunch of soap recipes thrown in a book. I also have the soap queens natural soap book, which is very, very advanced(not to mention you have to buy special molds for many of soap queens recipes).I like them both, but this one's my favorite due to ease of use and its just more my style, I'm a very natural, crunchy granola kinda girl lol. I definitely recommend this book, you won't be disappointed! (No palm oil is used in any recipe! Which overjoys me, as my sensitive skin hates palm oil or palm products!) All of the recipes are all natural and I simply cant go wrong with any of them! A+++ Jan Berry!

Hasta el momento es uno de los mejores libros de recetas para jabón que he visto. Me encanta que te da las recetas en detalle, incluso te menciona qué aceites puedes usar para sustituir uno que no tengas. A parte de las recetas incluye técnicas, diseños y otros consejos para hacer jabón de manera más segura y con mejores resultados.

This book uses basic ingredients for the soaps, coconut oil, shea butter, olive oil, castor oil... It also has other oils and butter in some recipes. If you are making to sell I recommend doing at least 1 1/2 or double batches. So simple, well explained, and great recipes!