Soap Making: The Art of Making Organic, Natural Soaps with Fragrances, Colors, and Shapes for a Perfect Gift for Any Occasion

By Betty Wright

Soap Making: The Art of Making Organic, Natural Soaps With Fragrances, Colors, and Shapes That Make Perfect Gifts for Any Occasion will guide you through the process of making organic, homemade, natural soap that is safe, aromatic, and make for amazing gifts.  If there is anything your friends and loved ones will appreciate, it will definitely be organic, natural soap.  Soap Making: The Art of Making Organic, Natural Soaps With Fragrances, Colors, and Shapes That Make Perfect Gifts for Any Occasion will teach you to make soap in such a way as to save you money, reduce amount of harsh fragrances from store-bought soaps.

There are a multitude of guides available to make handmade, organic soaps, but this book will show you more than just a few techniques to making soap.  You will be able to create elegant, aromatic soap that works well, and is stunningly beautiful.  Soap Making: The Art of Making Organic, Natural Soaps With Fragrances, Colors, and Shapes That Make Perfect Gifts for Any Occasion will show you how get your hands dirty while keeping them clean.

Here is what you will learn after reading this book:

1. History Repeats Itself

2. To Lye Or Not To Lye

3. Sufficient Supplies

4. Recipes For Success

5. Cold Process

6. Gifts Galore

7. Gifts That Are Different

8. Making Soap Profitable

• Language: English
• Publisher: JVzon Studio
• Release date: Mar 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386538271

Book preview

Introduction

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Why would anyone desire to go through the painstaking efforts to make organic, natural soap?  It requires patience, a positive attitude, and a willingness to go through the trial and errors that most assuredly follow.  Well, there are a number of reasons, the least of which is reducing the amount of toxins the human body is exposed to on a daily basis.  Whether it be the coloring and chemicals found in shampoo, or the harsh detergents in commercial hand soap, your body is put through the paces every time you take shower, or wash your hands.

Soap Making: The Art of Making Organic, Natural Soaps With Fragrances, Colors, and Shapes That Make Perfect Gifts for Any Occasion provides you with the processes necessary to make pure, natural, organic and fragrant soaps that make spectacular gift items for your friends, your family, and even your colleagues.  Anyone can travel down to the local Walmart store and pick out a simplistic, assembly line trinket as a gift, but homemade gifts ring from the heart, and tells the recipient that they actually mean something to you.

You will be able to make soaps that are truly organic, natural, and possess a wide array of colors and designs.  Not only will your friends be impressed, but you will surprise yourself as well.  There is nothing like the aroma of natural substances filling the air with the scent of rose pedal, of fresh fruit, or citrus.

Chapter 1 – History Repeats Itself

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Soap making has been around for literally thousands of years.  There may be some dispute as to the original time frame for the very first soap, however, a barrel full of a substance that appeared to like soap was found to date back as far as 2200 B.C. - though some accounts date as far back as 2800 B.C.  Interestingly enough, a n ancient tablet dating back to the 2200 B.C. was found to contain, of all things, a soap recipe.  The ancient form of soap making included mixing pot ash and various oils to make a sort of cleaning agent. Up until the French used olive oil in the ingredients for soap, animal fat was the fat of choice.

In 1500 B.C, manuscripts describe material created from combining animal fats and vegetable oils.  These particular manuscripts describe a type of soap that was used when making wool.  Obviously, storage receptacles that maintained a consistent temperature were hard to come by back then, therefore, it is safe to presume these substances were made on an as-needed basis.

In ancient Rome, a mixture was discovered at 1000 B.C. that was the result of the animals sacrificed on Mount Soap, which were burned and the fat mixed with the ashes from the fire and made its way to the river where women were washing clothes and they saw a remarkable difference in the cleanliness of the garments. 

Fast forward to 600 A.D. and we find actual soap making guilds being formed and much of the contemporary formula began to take shape.  Then, in 900 A.D., soap was produced for commercial sale.  In 1700 A.D., soap