Formulating Your Own Soap Recipes Book in Print
$32.99
This printed book is a comprehensive guide to creating your own soap recipes and formulations.
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Description
Formulating Your Own Soap Recipes Book in Print : The Definitive Guide and Reference for Creating Unique Formulations & Recipes
Offered in print or as a digital ebook. This page is for the printed book version.
This complete guide to recipe building is a valuable resource for makers of bar and liquid soap at any skill level. You no longer need to use recipes from a book or website. Expert Erica D. Pence teaches you how to design your own formulas for truly unique soaps. Gain insight into these topics and more:
• Selecting ingredients based on your desired soap properties
• Understanding saponification values and fatty acids’ role in soapmaking
• Tackling the math involved in recipe formulating, step by step
• Understanding lye discounts, water amounts, milk and more
• Trait Combination Guides™ and other useful tools to get you started
• 179 Hard-to-find, comprehensive oil profiles in one reference book
• Includes reference section filled with tables of information at your fingertips.
This easy-to-use book provides everything you need to know about creating your own soap recipes.
Book will ship media mail in the US and First Class outside the US.
ISBN: 978-0-9861696-0-1
Type: Paperback, full-color
Length: 350 pages
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section 1: Basics of Soapmaking
Soapmaking Methods
General Terminology and Science
Lye and Safe Handling
Fats and Oils
Scenting Soap
Coloring Soap
Soapmaking Process
Sections 2: Key Ingredients
Understanding Oil Properties
Understanding Oil and Fat Profiles
Oil and Fat Profiles
Sustainability
Section 3: Formulating Recipes
One Rule of Soapmaking
Simple Calculations
Formulating Phase 1 – Using Existing Recipes
Formulating Phase 2 – Altering Existing Recipes
Formulating Phase 3 – Creating New Recipes
Section 4: Other Considerations
Lye Discounts and Superfatting
Water and Soapmaking
Using Milks
Liquid Substitutions
Additives and Design
Using a Lye or Soap Calculator
Using INS
Advanced Recipe Formulating
Troubleshooting Recipes
Section 5: Appendix
Appendix A – Oil Saponification Values (SAP) and Properties
Appendix B – Oils by SAP Value for Quick Substitutions
Appendix C – Oils by Primary
Properties
Appendix D – Fatty Acids List
Appendix E – INS and Iodine Values (IV) for Oils
Appendix F – Availability of Oils
Appendix G – Oils by Region
Appendix H – INCI by Oils
Appendix I – Formulation Worksheets
Appendix J – Unit Conversions
Sections 6: Resources
Bibliography
Index
Additional information
Weight | 24 oz |
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Dimensions | 10 × 7.5 × 1 in |