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Customers find this soap crafting book informative and easy to read, with clear step-by-step lessons that cater to both beginners and advanced soapers. The book is beautifully illustrated with high-quality pictures and includes helpful tips beyond recipes, with a strong focus on color and safety measures. Customers appreciate the spiral binding and consider it worth the money.
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Make your own custom-tailored and perfectly formed cold-process soaps! Learn how to use milk jugs and yogurt containers for molds, and how coffee, avocado, and even beer can add unique dimensions to your creations. This encouraging introduction to the art of soapmaking makes it simple to master the techniques you need to safely and easily produce your own enticingly fragrant soaps.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Dana Talpos
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My sincere gratitude to Mrs. Annie Marie Faiola for her exceptional dedication and diligent efforts.
Review: This book is exceptional, providing invaluable insights and comprehensive knowledge. I wholeheartedly recommend it without reservation. Thank you.
Reviewer: Sharon A. Reeves
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Outstanding Book
Review: Being new to soap making I purchased three (3) books, Milk Soapmaking by Anne L. Watson, Soap Crafting By Anne-Marie Faiola, The Soap Queen and Basic Soap Making edited by Letcavage. I have reviewed the three and find that each of them has good information to offer. If you are looking for an easy to follow soap making book that is great for a beginner like myself I would recommend both Basic Soap Making –Letcavage and Soap Crafting by The Soap Queen as they have easy to follow instructions as well as pictures to follow along. The Basic Soap making book offers more explanation on types of oils and smells to showing you some common items that can be used to make soap. The Soap Crafting book provides easy to follow recipes as well as easy to follow instruction and explanations. I love not only the MANY recipes in this book but also the explanation on techniques used to get different designs in soap. In my opinion, these books complement each other very well or could be purchased separately. The Milk Soapmaking book is perfect for milk soap recipes as well as explanations; it is a straight read only book so if you’re looking for a picture explanation you will not get it. She does an excellent job of describing what texture you should look for however, if you like an example this book may be best as an accompaniment to one or both of the other books and not as a sole source.
Reviewer: S. Grant
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Happy!
Review: Bought this as a used book, it is in very good condition. The book is well illustrated and informative and I recommend it to anyone interested in soapmaking.
Reviewer: ockeghem
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good reference tool, with strong focus on color
Review: This is a good overview of soap making and materials for the beginner. I find it’s worth it just for Part 1, which covers soapmaking techniques, equipment, oils, fragrances and colorants in detail. I bought the book just for this, as it’s a fairly comprehensive reference tool with good pictures, lots of detail, and the right amount of opinion (although I still go back to Cavitch’s “Soapmaker’s Companion” if I have a really detailed question).As a home soapmaker, rather than one with aspirations to sell my creations or one who makes soap as an artistic outlet, I find the recipes in Part 2 less helpful. There’s a strong focus on funky color swirls and embedded glycerin chunks, which require an amount of investment (in materials, in colorants, of space, of time) that I don’t find necessary for my purposes. My impetus for making soap is to have nicely scented soap without a ton of additives — to know what’s in the soap my family uses. For me the color swirls might be fun for a recipe or two, but involve a lot of extra work. I wish she’d included a few more recipes that didn’t involve two or more colors. Also, in the recipes of hers I’ve tried, I’ve found her batches are too large for my equipment, since I haven’t made major investments in big soap molds or large mixing containers, and I don’t have the space to cure that much soap. For my purposes, I find the recipes in Barto’s “The Natural Soap Chef” to be a better size and more practical (and just as satisfying — good fragrances, nice colors); that book is easier for a beginner to get going with. But this will be a matter of personal taste.Overall, this book is a solid reference and a good introduction to color, if that’s what interests you.
Reviewer: Elizabeth R.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Keeper!!
Review: I love this book! Very informative and has wonderful recipes! I will keep this in my personal library forever!
Reviewer: J. Eyre
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not for beginners
Review: This is an excellent book but I wouldn’t say it was for beginners. The recipes in this book also call for things that are not I would say, readily available unless you live near a health food store. Many of the colorants used will have to be ordered from a company. There really isn’t a basic beginning soap recipe. Having said that this book is a wonderful one for someone who knows the ins and outs of soap making. If someone wants to jump right in, order the things it calls for and make beautiful soaps this is the book. The photographs are wonderful and she does take you pretty much step by step through the whole process but as I said, you would have to have (in my opinion) a nodding acquaintance with some of the terms, etc. What is nice, too, is that she is online on YouTube and has her own company which sells the products called for. You will get a personal response from the company if you contact them about their products so that is good, too.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book
Review: There were some negative reviews about this book which made me almost not get this but I’m glad I did. It’s very helpful for beginners and also teaches you some techniques for seasoned soapers. I don’t think she necessarily forces you to buy her products, you can easily find similar fragrances on other websites for cheaper prices. You can just follow the recipes and design techniques. This book gives you a lot of great ideas and step by step pictures. Definitely nice to have this information on paper right in front of you rather than playing videos back after back. I would recommend this to anyone who loves to make cold process soaps or are interested in learning.
Reviewer: Georgia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Muito bom !
Reviewer: Laurie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I found this book to be very helpful. Great illustrations, great step by step format, lots of tips and tricks, great FAQ section, really really helpful.
Reviewer: ぴーちゃん
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 英語はまったくわかりませんが笑 わからないものでも美しい写真等で、スワール模様など素敵なデザインの石鹸がワクワクと創作意欲が沸いてくるバイブルです。ファイリングの本も折れなくてとてもいいです。そして頑張って辞書片手に読んでおります。
Reviewer: Desry
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: je remercie, l’auteur de ce livre, bien illustré, détaille en image ,pas pas, des instructions, pour celle qui ont du mal mal a maîtriser la saponification,Bravo, je recommande ce livre.elle vaut la peine. c’est en anglais bien sure
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Beautiful book, has so much information to help me learn how to make soap. I follow this author on facebook as well. If you are new to soap making like I am, I highly recommend this book, then look her up on the web, the author has videos and tons of information.
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