Easy Homemade Melt and Pour Soaps: A Modern Guide to Making Custom Creations Using Natural Ingredients & Essential Oils

Description

Creating your own homemade soap has never been easier or safer than with Jan Berry's simple lye-free melt and pour recipes, made entirely of all-natural ingredients you can feel good about using. Each recipe stems from a pre-made soap base, which readers will easily customize with fun colors, scents and textures by infusing it with herbs, flowers and essential oils. Choose between uniquely interesting scents such as Soothing Sunflower Soap, Dandelion Honey Soap, Jewelweed and Oatmeal Soap, and many more. Making creative designs is a popular part of this method, and Jan provides step-by-step tutorials for fresh, creative designs that readers will love. The book also provides instructions for creating other bath and body products, such as sugar scrub cubes, shave soaps, whipped soaps, charcoal salt bars, etc. Readers can further personalize these projects to their own needs with Jan's thoughtful recipe adaptations, which include tips for making soaps allergy-free, extra nourishing and more. She has also included alternate versions of some of the most popular made-with-lye recipes, so you can make and enjoy your favorites in a safer and more natural way! The book will include 75 recipes and 75 photos.

Jan Berry is the author of 101 Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home and Simple and Natural Soapmaking. She is also the founder of the blog The Nerdy Farm Wife, which has more than 58k followers on Facebook. She writes regularly for HobbyFarms.com and Natural Herbal Living magazine. Her projects have been featured on Natural Living Mama, Empress of Dirt, Lovely Greens, BuzzFeed, Money Saving Mom and more. She lives on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

"A must-read for every melt-and-pour soapmaker, Jan's new book is filled with soapmaking tips, no-fail recipes and stunning photos to help guarantee your success. You'll feel like a soapmaking pro from the start!" --Rebecca Dillon, founder of Soap Deli News Blog "Jan Berry does it again, offering easier- than-ever instructions for soapmaking at home. Pairing the ease of melt-and-pour soap bases with all natural ingredients, she shows readers how to craft beautiful bars perfect for gift giving." --Kris Bordessa, author of Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living "Jan Berry's new book removes the mystery and complexity of soapmaking and focuses on the fun, creative part. You'll be making flawless soap immediately." --Chris Dalziel, founder of the DIY Herbal Fellowship and author of Beeswax Workshop "Jan Berry is like the da Vinci of soap making--they're gorgeous! I want to make every single one. Let's just say, you'll be hoping to be on my Christmas list once I get into all the projects of Easy Homemade Melt & Pour Soaps!" --Tessa Zundel, founder of Homestead Lady and author of The Do It Yourself Homestead "Jan has a gift for taking something as ordinary and everyday as soap, and turning it into works of art. With melt and pour soap, she's made it really simple for you to craft your own beautiful soaps at home!" --Ashley Adamant, founder of Practical Self Reliance "Jan Berry's latest book helps you craft extraordinary bar soap, liquid soap, bath bombs and more from simple melt and pour base. Create on my friends!" --Janet Garman, founder of Timber Creek Farm, author of The Good Living Guide to Keeping Sheep and Other Fiber Animals "Jan Berry has once again written an herbal body care book that both beginners and experienced soap makers will enjoy. This is a must have book for those who are interested in natural soap making." --Angi Schneider, founder of Schneider Peeps "In Easy Homemade Melt and Pour Soaps, Jan Berry offers readers 50 inspiring recipes for gorgeous homemade soaps. Her tutorials on using natural colorants and additions like flower petals, herbs, and exfoliants give soap-makers no end of beautiful options to choose from." --Susannah Shmurak, founder of Healthy Green Savvy