We often start making our own soaps with a desire to reduce the share of questionable ingredients in our environment, but we quickly take an interest in this creative pastime which allows us to adapt the formula to infinity by playing with vegetable oils and butters, natural dyes, essential oils and other natural ingredients — coffee, dried flowers, clays, fruits, honey, cereals… A bit like we would do in the kitchen, after all!
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It is moreover a generous recipe book that Anne-Marie Faiola presents with Make your own soaps. The French author, who lovers of artisanal soap making know for her YouTube channel and her blog, or even through Bramble Berry, her brand of products for the manufacture of soaps, offers us here creations that guarantee success. and which are easy to make, in particular thanks to the visual that accompanies each stage of the preparation.
Between the black tea soap, the blueberry palets, the magnificent shades of Garance or the honeycombs, we risk not knowing where to turn. But before embarking on the preparation, it is wise, not to say necessary, to begin by reading the first chapters, which popularize the process of saponification. Insiders and beginners will find their account for sure.
Make your own soaps
Anne-Marie Faiola
Editions Larousse, 2022
241 pages