How To Make Your Own Soap ... In Traditional Bars, Liquid or Cream PDF
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Sally Hornsey runs Plush Folly, a leading cosmetics training company specialising in a range of cosmetic-making workshops, home study courses and kits. Awarded with Registered CPD Presenter status, Sally writes and delivers the workshops and oversees the home study programmes. She has taught many students how to design a range of bar and liquid soaps for their own use and has given them the skills and knowledge they need to establish a flourishing business. Plush Folly products have been sold in France, Germany and Luxembourg, and have graced the shelves of many shops, including Harrods and Fortnum & Mason, as well as appearing at the Chelsea Flower Show. Sally is also the author of Make Your Own Perfume and Make Your Own Skin Care Products. 2 Also by Sally Hornsey Make Your Own Perfume How to create your own fragrances to suit mood, character and lifestyle Make Your Own Skin Care Products How to create a range of nourishing and hydrating skin care products 3 4 Constable & Robinson Ltd 55–56 Russell Square London WC1B 4HP www.constablerobinson.com First published in the UK by How to Books, an imprint of Constable & Robinson, 2014 Copyright © Sally Hornsey 2014 The right of Sally Hornsey to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. The material contained in this book is set out in good faith for general guidance and no liability can be accepted for loss or expense incurred as a result of relying in particular circumstances on statements made in the book. Those with allergies, or pregnant women, should take particular care when handling some of the ingredients used in soap making and, if in doubt should, consult a qualified medical practitioner. A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-90897-423-5 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-84528-562-3 (ebook) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Printed and bound in the EU 5 This book is dedicated to the boys in my household – Nick, Harry and Jonah, the best soap testers ever! 6 7 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Making traditional bars of soap Equipment needed to make traditional soap Choosing your soap making ingredients Safety advice for handling lye Fragrancing your soap Colouring your soap Soap making methods Special effects using colour Using botanicals, fruit and vegetables in your soap Substituting the water in your lye Making milk soaps Making beer and wine soaps Making honey soaps Adding salt to your soaps Adding silk to your soaps Superfatting your soap 8 Discounting the water in your soap 2 Making liquid soap Equipment needed for making liquid soap Safety advice for handling liquid soap ingredients How to make liquid soap Recipes for liquid soap 3 Making cream soap Equipment needed for making cream soap Safety advice for handling cream soap ingredients How to make cream soap Recipes for cream soap 4 Crafting bars of soap using melt-and-pour soap base Safety when handling melt-and-pour soap base Different types of melt-and-pour soap base Equipment needed for making melt-and-pour soaps Preparing your melt-and-pour soap base for use Fragrancing your melt-and-pour soap base Colouring the melt-and-pour soap base Adding clays and powders to your soap base Recipes for melt-and-pour soap base Special effects with melt-and-pour soap Making your own melt-and-pour soap base from scratch 5 Using surfactants What are surfactants? Formulating with surfactants Surfactant recipes Making non-lye melt-and-pour soap from scratch Resources Index 9 Acknowledgements A giant thank you to everyone who helped me with various aspects of this book. To my lovely team at Plush Folly, who protected me from the phone, emails and visitors during the book writing and soap making sessions: you are all massively appreciated. Your next task is to help me use up all this soap . . . The photographs in this book have been a labour of love and I thank Tom Weller and Chloe Strike for snapping away whilst I made soap. The biggest thanks of all go to Lizzi Roche, ex Plush Folly, who spent hours and hours with me, taking thousands of photos so that we could pick and choose the most appropriate ones for the book. Lizzi, you are a star! 10
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