Natural Soapmaker Recipes and Techniques by Deborah Dolen

The Natural Soapmaker Recipes and Techniques by bestselling DIY author Deborah Dolen is loaded with recipes and formula’s to make soap the old fashioned way, coupled with modern technology for faster preparation and easier clean up. Making your own soap saves a lot of money and produces a much higher quality soap than commercial bought. Few commercial bars say "soap" anymore on the label because they are not genuine soap, most are detergent "bars." Old fashioned soap is long lasting and gives off a natural "clean" and "sexy" scent. Natural soap is easy to make with most ingredients local to you.Although the recipes were written for cold process, [no heat applied at all] all recipes in Dolen’s books can be used in the hot process method, for example the crock pot method that became more popular in the last five years, after this book was written. Hot process became more popular because it almost eliminates a 30 to 60 day curing time that cold process soap making requires.