Learn how to make soap the old fashioned way using new fangled methods. Making Soap for Fun and Profit offers basic recipes using tallow, vegetable shortening and/or a wide variety of oils such as olive, coconut, avacodo etc.. to make soap which lasts like our ancestors.
The author describes how to incorporate addivitives, herbs and essential oils to vary the color and scent of the soap.
The author encourages the reader to design and create special blends - offering some blank pages for personal notes and recipes.
Resources for materials appear through out the book and are also listed in the Index and resource page. Enjoy the process - have some fun making soap!
Hidden Meadows Handcrafts began in the fall of 1995 by accident. The author, Linda C. Inlow and her neighbor, Shelly Morgan, made soap and other bath products in their kitchens. Family and friends enjoyed the results so much the two women formed Hidden Meadows and began to sell wholesale and low-end retail. Before this venture, the author owned a llama ranch, dealt in real estate and taught at the local college. She continues to teach community education classes such as 'How to Start Your Own Business', 'First Time Home Buyers', and 'How to Get Published'. While managing the businesses, Linda also raises her two children on a seven-acre farm in a small rural community in Washington State. She spends her time writing, gardening, reading, teaching and of course making soap. Other books by the author include: Making the Most of Your Llama (Kopacetic inK) Diary of a Soapmaker (pamphlet) (Kopacetic inK) The Odd Lot: Raising Unusual Animals (Clay Press) Becoming Me: An Autobiography for the Reader to Complete (Kopacetic inK)