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Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How (Natural Body Series - The Natural Way to Enhance Your Life) |  | Author: Susan Miller Cavitch
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 7771
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 7.9 x 1
ISBN: 0882669656
Dewey Decimal Number: 668.124
UPC: 037038009651
EAN: 9780882669656
Publication Date: January 7, 1997
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Product Description
Basic soapmaking instruction and specialty techniques like marbling, layering, and making transparent and liquid soaps.
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 Out of date but of historical interest May 17, 2010
Irvin Kanode (Tempe, AZ USA)
The book is showing its age and doesn't include modern techniques such as using a stick blender, or curing cold process soaps in the oven. The chapter on "Soapmaking Online" is hilariously out of date.
Way too much of the content is based on the author's biases and world-view. It's hard to sort fact from opinion and trust any of her pronouncements.
Some of the recipes have a lot of ingredients. I doubt that there's a good reason for a soap with 6 or 8 different oils.
It's a worthwhile purchase as your 3rd or 4th book on soap making, and for it's historical interest.
 The Soapmaker's Companion March 30, 2010
Cheryl Ramos (NEW AUBURN, WI, US)
This is an absolute "must have" for any budding or seasoned soaper. You can't go wrong with the detailed information contained in the book and I often use it as a reference when creating my soaps. The Soapmaker's Companion is an ideal starting point if you're wanting to try your hand at soap-making and coupled with some of the other books by this author, makes an excellent start to a library to keep you in project ideas for a very long time. Many of the concepts of soap making, although described in other books, are explained in everyday terminology that even a novice can master. In time, you'll find yourself creating your own recipes through modifications to those in the book. It's an excellent source to have and I highly recommend it.
A resource that gather's dust March 23, 2010
Nakushita (Oak Harbor, WA)
I have been making various types of soap for the better part of a year now and am always looking for new ideas and information. With all of the positive feedback I was getting about this book I purchased it from my local soapmaking store and quickly realized there was nothing in this book I hadn't already gleaned from the internet in a more up-to-date, concise and searchable format. I have tried a few of the recipes in the book and wasn't fond of any of them. Many call for difficult to find or outrageously expensive ingredients that really aren't necessary to good soapmaking. Others just seem to have ingredients, such as the overuse of GSE, for the sake of having them. The sections on FDA requirements and starting your own business might as well have been excluded since the information there was at a bare minimum lacking. The only reason I gave it as many stars as I did was because it does offer a good information for new soapers, though I find that paying for information that is available for free on the internet a bit ridiculous. Thus, it sits on my bookshelf collecting dust.
 Disapointed December 31, 2009
kitjank (Hunt Valley, MD United States)
With all the rave reviews I was really excited about getting this book. I'm brand new to soapmaking and was really looking forward to using this book. Thank God it wasn't the first book I purchased on the subject. If it had been I would never have tried it at all. Other reviews claim this is a great book for beginners, and I have to disagree. Perhaps the book is a bit dated as stated by another reviewer, but I found it to be too much info and what's with the GSE? That being said, there is some good info in this book, and I do like the Q&A Chapter, but I would not recommend this for a beginner. I found Anne L. Watson's "Smart Soapmaking" is a much better choice.
Fantastic Book November 19, 2009
J. Young (Spain)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was a fabulous beginning to Soap Making. Well written. Easy to follow. Great recipes. Great tips. I will be interested in getting this authors other book "The Natural Soap Book". Enjoy!!
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