Smart Soapmaking: The Simple Guide to Making Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably, or How to Make Soap That's Perfect for You, Your Family, or Friends

#1 AMAZON BESTSELLER IN SOAP MAKING (JUNE 2015) #1 KINDLE (US) BESTSELLER IN BEAUTY & FASHION (JUNE 2015) #1 KINDLE (US) BESTSELLER IN CRAFTS & HOBBIES (JULY 2014) #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER IN HOME-BASED SMALL BUSINESSES (OCTOBER 2013) SPECIAL NOTE! -- ANNE WILL PERSONALLY ANSWER ANY QUESTION OF YOURS AFTER READING THIS BOOK. ASK ON HER WEB SITE AND YOULL NORMALLY HEAR BACK WITHIN HOURS! Maybe youd like to make your own soap but youre worried that working with lye is too difficult or dangerous. Maybe youre scared off by "beginner" books that go on for hundreds of pages and leave you less confident than before. Or maybe youre already making soap but you wonder if methods youve learned are slower and more complicated than they need to be. Whether beginner or advanced youll find "Smart Soapmaking" practical helpful and refreshing. Written by a former professional soapmaker it explodes the myths about soapmaking and shows you how to make wonderful soap from scratch with the least fuss and bother. Youll get a wide variety of recipes plus youll learn how to modify them and create new ones. Want to make a luxurious gift soap? Or one thats all natural with no artificial ingredients? Maybe a moisturizing soap for dry skin? Or one with a trending oil not yet in books? With "Smart Soapmaking " you can do all that and more to get exactly the soap you want. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Anne L. Watson is the first author to have introduced modern techniques of home soapmaking and lotionmaking to book readers. She has made soap under the company name Soap Tree and before her retirement from professional life she was a historic preservation architecture consultant. Anne and her husband Aaron Shepard live in Bellingham Washington. ///////////////////////////////////////////////// RECOMMENDED BY THE HANDCRAFTED SOAP & COSMETIC GUILD "The only book youll ever need." -- Mother Earth News Feb.-Mar. 2019 "Should become THE book for soapmaking . . . Its about time someone wrote a book like this. Most are idealistic and inaccurate. This book has a wonderful common sense approach that is SO long overdue . . . I can recommend it with 100% confidence." -- Susan Kennedy Oregon Trail Soaps Rogue River Oregon "Smart it is . . . A simple no-nonsense book that cuts through the curmudgery of stifling soap bibles like no other." -- Shellie Humphries Harstine Island Washington "A great book for beginners with clear and easy instructions." -- Anne-Marie Faiola Bramble Berry Inc. Bellingham Washington "I learned more from Smart Soapmaking than from any other soaping book and I have read quite a few . . . Its written with the average person in mind not a chemistry major. Directions are very simple and easy to understand. It really takes the mystery out of making soap." -- Jackie Pack Stuart Virginia "Groundbreaking . . . Anne L. Watson is the universally respected and loved author/crafter/curator of this lost art for thousands of aspiring soapers . . . Unquestionably the best book with which to begin. To be precise its probably the most accessible most reader-friendly and most immediately useful container of information a first-time soapmaker could hope to find." -- Wishing Willow (blog) "BRILLIANT to find the recipes are in grams as well as ounces." -- Jude Birch Aussie Soap Supplies Bicton West Australia