Guest guest Posted April 18, 2002 Report Share Posted April 18, 2002 Hi everyone. I have been enjoying all the posts on soapmaking books and ideas! My favorite book was the Natural Soapmaking Book by Susan Cavitch..It helped me in everyway to get organized and educated in soapmaking! I swear that thing is shredded and writen on and I loved every page! I loved Elaine White's little soapmaking book too! She self-pulbished that one. I admire her very much and she is also a bee keeper! I am so dying to try that hobby! And I want a couple of goats and a few chickens but I digress. I find it very enlightening that every book is a reflection of the person making the soap! It is like bread baking..no two loaves of bread turn out the same..but man all homemade bread is wonderful! Some soaps are ugly, fat, gorgious but shallow, sweet, fruity, and lavender mellow! They are all so amazing and good! ana http://www.anastasiasideas.com shea butter soaps, rhassoul handmade paper and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2002 Report Share Posted April 19, 2002 I agree, I love the book by Susan Cavitch. My copy has the last few pages stuck together (spilled something on it) and the rest is being held together with tape. I love her recipes and as a Chemical Engineer, I love the section of the book where she talks about the actual chemistry involved. What I would like to find is a book on making the soap you have to cook, I don't know the exact phrase for it, hot process? Michele -- " blue_lotus_moon " <blue_lotus_moon Thu, 18 Apr 2002 18:18:05 -0000 books and whatnot Hi everyone. I have been enjoying all the posts on soapmaking books and ideas! My favorite book was the Natural Soapmaking Book by Susan Cavitch..It helped me in everyway to get organized and educated in soapmaking! I swear that thing is shredded and writen on and I loved every page! I loved Elaine White's little soapmaking book too! She self-pulbished that one. I admire her very much and she is also a bee keeper! I am so dying to try that hobby! And I want a couple of goats and a few chickens but I digress. I find it very enlightening that every book is a reflection of the person making the soap! It is like bread baking..no two loaves of bread turn out the same..but man all homemade bread is wonderful! Some soaps are ugly, fat, gorgious but shallow, sweet, fruity, and lavender mellow! They are all so amazing and good! ana http://www.anastasiasideas.com shea butter soaps, rhassoul handmade paper and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2002 Report Share Posted April 21, 2002 Let us know if you ever come across one. I'd be interested to take a peek at that too. Margaret >Michele in the Woods <mbrantner > > >Re: books and whatnot >Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:37:39 -0700 > >I agree, I love the book by Susan Cavitch. My copy has the last few pages >stuck together (spilled something on it) and the rest is being held >together >with tape. I love her recipes and as a Chemical Engineer, I love the >section of the book where she talks about the actual chemistry involved. > >What I would like to find is a book on making the soap you have to cook, I >don't know the exact phrase for it, hot process? > > >Michele _______________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2002 Report Share Posted April 21, 2002 I have the book by Susan Miller Cavitch, 'A Soapmakers companion'. I read thru some of it once, referred to it twice and will sell the $19.00 book for $15 to anyone who wants it. It weighs 1#2 oz, so figure 2# for usps. I don't know that there is a book on how to make HP soap. I can walk anyone thru if if you'd like? It's would be best if you have done cp first, but not necessary. Oh, for Ann, rockhounding is hunting, searching out rocks. Some are historically valuable, such as fossils and petrified wood, some are monetarily valuable such as opals, fire opal, cyrstals, diamonds, some are collecting valuable, such as poppy jasper, agates, rudilated quartz, jasper, onyx, marble. That's what we do for fun. *I* try to find herbs in this arid place called Phoenix and surrounds. *I* create herbal products, for fun. <g> Oh, and I have begun creating rock ponds with the rocks we find. One is inside and one is outside. It's pretty cool and people that visit are pretty impressed. <g> It's not everyone that has a large pc of petrified wood next to a pc of rock with a full shell in it, with a rock in the back with an amethyst sticking out of the top. ) Janine www.HerbaTherapy.com join the newsletter for specials! HerbaTherapynews- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2002 Report Share Posted April 21, 2002 Thanks Janine - sounds though it could be interesting ! > Oh, and I have begun creating rock ponds with the rocks we find. One is inside and one is outside. It's pretty cool and people that visit are pretty impressed. <g> It's not everyone that has a large pc of petrified wood next to a pc of rock with a full shell in it, with a rock in the back with an amethyst sticking out of the top. ) No, it's not - and I suppose there are some people that wouldn't want it either but then they don't know what they're missing do they? Happy Hunting Regards Ann - Scotland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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