DIY Soap: Homemade Soap Making for Beginners: Sustainable Living & Homestead Survival Series

By Gaia Rodale

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The art of soap making is one of those time honored skills that our great-grandparents and their parents knew how to do that is quickly slipping from our collective consciousness.  Luckily, people like you and like me are taking the time to preserve our history by learning these old skills like making our own soap.

Frankly making homemade soap just makes good sense.  Most of the ingredients are likely already in your home which can mean a real cost savings over the course of a year, and while our ancestors made soap from necessity, many of us choose to make our own soap because it allows us to tightly control the ingredients and limit the chemical exposure to our family and our land.

In #1 bestselling author Gaia Rodale’s “DIY Soap: Homemade Soap Making for Beginners” you will learn:

• Why soap cleans things, there’s stuff going on at a molecular level that if you get it (don’t worry it’s not complicated) makes the whole process fall into place
• How lye and fat combine to create soap molecules, this is where they magic happens
• How to make melt and pour soap, with recipes for a Luxe Facial Beauty Bar, Citrus Moisturizing Bar, and a refreshing tingly Magical Minty Bar
• How to make cold process soap, including a Basic Beginner’s Lavender Cold-Press Bar recipe, then you can amp it up with the Crazy for Coffee Bar and the skin nurturing Carrot Top Bar
• How to make your own sustainable lye, this is truly a dying art albeit a simple one
• How to handle lye appropriately, this stuff is dangerous so we give you the info you need to keep yourself and your family safe while still enjoying the benefits it can provide

Making your own soap allows you to save money, increase your self sufficiency, and create every kind of soap your family needs without the harsh and harmful chemicals found in commercial soaps.  It is an easy skill to learn that has a place in many modern homes.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Wealthy nWise Press
• Release date: Aug 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516308118

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Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading, "Sustainable Living & Homestead Survival Series - DIY: Homemade Soap Making for Beginners."

The art of soap making is one of those time-honored skills that our great-grandparents had that is quickly slipping from our collective consciousness.  Luckily, homesteaders like you and like me are taking the time to preserve our history by learning these old skills.

For homesteading families, making homemade soap just makes good sense.  Most of the ingredients are likely already produced on the homestead, which can mean a real cost savings over the course of a year.  While our ancestors made soap from necessity, many of us choose to make our own soap because it allows us to tightly control the ingredients and limit the chemical exposure to our family and our land.

Making soap isn’t hard it just takes a basic understanding of how the ingredients go together to produce the soap molecules that make it possible to clean everything in our homes including ourselves.  This guide provides you with all the information you need to start making your own soap tomorrow. 

From explaining how soap works and how soap is made from lye and oil to offering some easy beginner recipes for making bar soap, this guide gives you the foundational understanding and beginner basics to get your soap making off the ground.  Before you know it you will be creating your own soap recipes and wowing your friends and family with your luxurious homemade soap.

Happy Homesteading!

Gaia Rodale

DIY Soap 101

People have been washing clothes, washing dishes, and washing bodies for millennia using soap that they made themselves.  Luckily, the art of making soap isn’t one of the skills we have lost due to modern conveniences.  Many people continue to use simple, natural ingredients to make their own soap products today.  For homesteading families, making your own soap boosts self-sufficiency, positively impacts your environment, saves money, and is a fun way to express your

Reviews for DIY Soap

[nubianepiphany · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

good information, but all the recipes include palm oil, no simple three oil recipes.