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    Soap Making: A Quick Guide
    Soap Making: A Quick Guide
    Soap Making: A Quick Guide
    Ebook32 pages17 minutes

    Soap Making: A Quick Guide

    By Michelle Gaboya

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    About this ebook

    A summary of the most important aspects of making soap at home, covering all the basics for beginners looking to get started, or to further your knowledge of your favorite hobby.

    Includes FREE, BONUS CONTENT that can be downloaded from our website as an exclusive gift to make the Soap Making Quick Guide even better value - a beautiful, print friendly PDF copy of the book, so you can print a copy, add your own notes to the prints and personalise your soap guide even further.

    Handy to use as a quick reference guide, it's based on the comprehensive Ebook "Soap Making Made Easy" by Michelle Gaboya.

    This Ebook will explore the following aspects of soap making:
    The differences between hand-made and commercial soap, and the benefits of making your own,
    Tips for beginners,
    Sample recipes,
    Tips for selecting a recipe,
    The basic equipment you’ll need,
    Precautions for working with lye,
    How to make bar and liquid soap, using step-by-step instructions and a basic recipe;
    How to color and scent your soap,
    Ways to package and present your soap,
    How to get started with selling your soap for a profit,

    Michelle Gaboya has been a soap making enthusiast for over 10 years, creating all types of elegant homemade soaps for family, friends and various occasions.

    As an avid enthusiast she has accumulated a wealth of experience in the field of soap making and is a recognized personality amongst the soap makers' community. She takes great pleasure in sharing her knowledge and experience with other keen soap makers.

    Michelle continues to hone her craft and experiment with new designs and formulas regularly.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJimmy
    Release dateMar 14, 2013
    ISBN9781301992393
    Soap Making: A Quick Guide
    Author

    Michelle Gaboya

    Michelle Gaboya has been a keen soap making enthusiast for over 10 years, making thousands of products of soap for both personal and business use.Originally from Thailand Michelle has gained great experience and knowledge from basic soap making using simple Thai ingredients to making large commercial products globally.

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      It's not a bad little quick ref, but you can kinda tell it's written by someone who knows the subject well, but isn't great at book writing. There's only one recipe and the information seems disorganized even for such a small book, but it's still not a bad book.

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    Soap Making - Michelle Gaboya

    Soap Making: A Quick Guide: 2nd Edition

    Michelle Gaboya

    Copyright © 2012 by SoapMakingAdvice.com

    Published by Michelle Gaboya at Smashwords.

    No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Produced in Australia, book design by Horto.

    All rights reserved.

    Table of Contents

    Why Make My Own Soap?

    Tips for Beginners

    Basic Ingredients

    Deciding on a Recipe

    Equipment

    Precautions for Working with Lye

    The Cold Process Soap Making Method

    Basic Soap Recipe (For Normal to Oily Skin)

    Other Soap Making Methods

    Making Liquid Soap

    Stick Blenders vs. Hand Stirring

    Superfatting

    Batch Codes

    Natural Colorants

    Other Soap Coloring Options

    Scenting Your Soap

    Selling Your Product

    Packaging and Presentation

    Where to Sell Your Soap

    FDA Regulation of Soap

    Liability

    About the author

    Special bonus for buying Soap Making: A Guick Guide!

    Thankyou so much for purchasing Soap Making: A Quick Guide - it’s a handy and brief checklist of the major elements of soap making, great for quickly referencing while making a batch of soap.

    As an added bonus, you can visit my website by

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