Milk Based Soaps | Milk-Based Soaps: Making Natural, Skin-Nourishing Soap

Another good soapmaking reference book | Milk-Based Soaps: Making Natural, Skin-Nourishing Soap | Casey Makela

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	• Milk-Based Soaps: Making Natural, Skin-Nourishing Soap Casey Makela Storey Publishing, LLC, 1997 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Worth having if you want to make whoke like soaps.

I was initailly intimidated by this book and I owned it for a while before I attempted her methods. But if you want to make soap with real milk (not powdered as an additive) this is a great resource. Making whole milk soap is not easy. This methods works. I admit I use a stick blender and keep it in one pot but my milk has never curdled due to her cold bath method. Her recipes produce gentle, silky soaps and are made with readily available ingredients. My main complaint with some of the other books is that you cannot get many of the ingredients unless you go online and pay shipping. I agree with another reviewer that she does not explain the why behind some of her methods. I think the glycerine and the sugar are for more lather but I'm not positive. I know the amount of honey is limited due to the risk of the soap overheating in the mold. My only other concern about her recipes is that they do not produce much lather and I like bubbles. However, now that I know the method and have had a lot of success I can experiment with the recipes to customize the soap.

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Milk Based Soaps

I love this book! This is actually my second copy after lending my first one to a friend. I have recomended this book to quite a few friends that also have goats and too much milk. This is the best basic book on the market!

Another good soapmaking reference book

I'm on a roll today, reviewing all of my old soap making books for future generations of soapmakers!
I admit to cutting and pasting alot in these reviews because I believe the same thing about most of these books...they all have their place in my library!
I began making my own soap about 15 years ago. I learned the basics from another soapmaker in her shop in Colorado. This was before all the many books and resources on soapmaking became readily available.
I bought this book as soon as it came out. It, along with several others, were great resources for expanding my knowledge and technique with soapmaking.
Unscented soap made with fresh goats milk, honey, and the very best quality base oils are my FAVORITE soaps after all these years.
Another reviewer noted that this book creates a pretty fair "fear factor" about all that can go wrong with milk-based soaps. They actually are a little more exciting to make and you do have to pay a little more attention to your temps and timing. However, you do NOT have to make the huge production out of it that the author makes it appear to be. You'll learn that cows milk and goats milk soaps will turn out differently depending on a whole bunch of little details. As all my soap reviews state...EXPERIMENT...enjoy the learning curve.
I see so many reviews that make these types of books "all or nothing" propositions. These books were never intended to present "the ONLY way" to do anything!
I don't do much of anything EXACTLY the way anyone else does. I do keep a huge database of information (the science of soapmaking, essential and base oil information, additive information, etc.) that I've compiled from many, many sources. THAT database is my soapmaking "Bible."
That's the beauty of getting a good knowledge base from many, many sources along with actually experimenting on your own! Completely uneducated, very poor people throughout the ages have been able to make perfectly servicable, even magnificent soap without reading a single book on the subject, much less having the wealth of knowledge we can get on the internet. While the science of soapmaking is fascinating to me, and you can certainly make soapmaking into rocket science if you want...it really isn't rocket science!
Go make some soap! Keep notes on what went great and what didn't. Grate your failures and use them for laundry or household soap. Blaze new trails! One of your experiments may turn out to be infinitely better than any soap you could have copied from anyone else!
Build yourself a nice library about ANY topic you are passionate about. Read a variety of authors, enjoy the contradictions! Then GO...GO and create your own way, your own dream, your own method. Experiment. Learn from success and failure!
If you don't have the money to buy more than one book before you start a new craft or hobby, go to the library and borrow them!
Stand on the shoulders of giants and the wee little people who gave you even a hint of help in achieving your goals and dreams. Write your own book and share what YOU'VE learned!

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Milk-Based Soaps

I had taken intrest in soap making and so I bought this book off of Amazon.com. It helped me a lot and had some awesome recipies in it.

This book is like having one muffin recipe you really like.

Do you have a muffin recipe that you love? This book is like having a favorite muffin recipe with many variations. I guess if it is your favorite don't argue with it. But, this book is full of variations of a basic recipe.
It is a nice book, but I had hoped for more variety.
But, I do love muffins.

Learn how to make moisturizing milk-based soaps like Oatmeal, Peaches and Cream, and specialty soaps, as well as how to turn this hobby into a moneymaker!

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