Author: Bardey, Catherine
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub.
Copyright: 1999
Number of Pages: 187
ISBN: 1579120598
Price: $10.98
Catherine Bardey, fashion editor and stylist, shows you the secrets of making soaps that add a personal touch to your everyday bathing experience and provide great presents for any occasion. Her special blends of all-natural ingredients produce handmade soaps with character and utility - ground almonds help exfoliation, lavender oils soothes and heals irritated skin, coffee rids hands of strong cooking smells and olive oil conditions hair.
From alluring to calming, each special scent in this distinctive collection of simple recipes will surround you with a pleasing aura all your own. Catherine's detailed fragrance profiles will show you how to pick the perfect scent to fit your mood and personality, whether you're making your own or buying brand-name perfumes and colognes. She also gives recipes for her favorites including:
- Elegant Rose Water
- Exfoliating Honey Almond Soap
- Calming Lavender Water
- All-purpose Coffee Oatmeal Soap
- Comforting Clary Sage Cologne
- Indulging Chocolate Milk Soap
- Spicy Sweet Orange Splash
- Sensual Pear Nectar Perfume
- Glycerin Soap
- Zesty Lemon Lime Cologne
And this is just the beginning; explore these examples and use them as a base for your own soap and fragrance creations. You don't need fancy or expensive equipment or complicated procedures to surround yourself with senstaional suds and stylish scents.
Catherine Bardey, author of Secrets of the Spas and Making Candles and Potpourri, has worked as an editor for the J. Crew catalog, and as a fashion stylist for NewYork, Vanity Fair, Glamour and French Vogue. She lives in New York City.
Table of Contents:
- Part I - Making Soaps
- A Little History
- Soap Making, In a Nutshell
- Tools of the Trade
- Ingredients
- Basics and Techniques
- Hand-Milled Soap
- The Jell-O Method
- Decorating and Packaging
- Soap Recipes
- Custom Soaps
- Shampoos
- Rinses
- Trouble Shooting
- Soap Facts
- Part II - Making Scents
- A Fragrant History
- Fragrance Families
- How to Read a Fragrance
- Perfume Recipes
- Tools of the Trade
- Custom Scents
- Essentials
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