Create natural, moisturizing, aromatic soaps at home that are easy to make, inexpensive, and a joy to use. Soap is supposed to cleanse and soothe skin, but what’s available in stores often just dries and irritates. With The Natural Soap Chef anyone can quickly learn how to make all-natural soaps that gently wash even the most sensitive skin. Not only are these soaps good for the body, but they also beautifully dress up any home with their delicious scents and colors. This book will show you the way your great grandma made soap, by using the cold process method utilizing the basic components of soap: lye and oil. With easy-to-follow instructions and photos that guarantee success, you’ll be a soap-making expert in no time! Prepare to take wonderful ingredients and turn them into amazing soaps like: • Rosemary Olive Oil Soap • Pink Grapefruit Soap • Lemon Verbena Soap • Chocolate Soufflé Soap • Chai Tea Soap • Baby Rose Soap • Guinness Stout Soap • Espresso Forte Soap • Cut Grass Soap • Head-to-Toe Shampoo Bar • Cucumber Melon Soap • Pumpkin Spice Soap
Make your own custom-tailored and perfectly formed cold-process soaps! Learn how to use milk jugs and yogurt containers for molds, and how coffee, avocado, and even beer can add unique dimensions to your creations. This encouraging introduction to the art of soapmaking makes it simple to master the techniques you need to safely and easily produce your own enticingly fragrant soaps.
The Natural Soap Color Palette gives you the tools you need to color your soap with nature's own colorants. Join Kandra in her exploration of over 22 natural soap colors from infusions and custom blends. You'll be empowered to start your own soap color experiments and be on your way to creating your own new color blends: - Learn how to make botanical infusions, teas, decoctions, and slurries. - Understand how to masterbatch lye, what a water discount actually is, and how to use ratio's for simplified water calculations.- Find out how to track your infusions, and how to calculate how much oil you have in an infusion jar.- Learn how to make a single bar "micro" batch.- Learn how to mix existing colors to make new colors, including blended greens and an array of purples. - Learn how colors fade overtime, and what to do about it.- Discover how to keep your soaps white and why not all charcoal makes black soap while some makes soap too black.- Includes Kandra's recipe for her "anti-alkanet" purple powder!About the Author and Soapmaker: Kandra has been making soap with natural colorants since 2010. She is the proud mother of 3 homeschooled children and lives with her husband in Denver, Colorado. Her struggles with finding a perfect reproducible purple started her down her path to color blending, finding new ways to create soap colors with all-natural ingredients, and have introduced her to lifelong along the way. She wrote this guide to natural colors with the hopes of sharing her joy of soapmaking, nature, and the combination of her artistic passions with other soapmakers. Kandra's natural soap colors have been brightening the showers and sinks of her customers for years, and now they can find a new glory in your soaps! This book a guide to help you understand how to extract colors from nature through infusions, teas, decoctions, and botanicals. It will help you to not only have a better understanding of the process but provide the skills you need to go beyond simply following instructions from a recipe. You will have a better understanding of how your ingredients affect the color of your soap and how to create your own unique soap colors.Colors featured in this book include: - Green: created from slurries and blends of yellows and blues - Orange: from infusions and carrots ranging from sunny yellows to bright orange and peach tones. - Purple: going beyond the all-might alkanet root and exploring how to blend a perfect purple from reds, blacks, and blues. - Black: including charcoal grays to midnight blacks that don't stain - White: understanding what makes a soap white, and how to manipulate your process to create a beautiful white to creamy off-white.
*SILVER WINNER for the 2022 Taste Canada Award for Single-Subject Cookbooks* *SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Gourmand World Cookbook Award* A sustainable lifestyle starts in the kitchen with these use-what-you-have, spend-less-money recipes and tips, from the friendly voice behind @ZeroWasteChef. In her decade of living with as little plastic, food waste, and stuff as possible, Anne-Marie Bonneau, who blogs under the moniker Zero-Waste Chef, has preached that "zero-waste" is above all an intention, not a hard-and-fast rule. Because, sure, one person eliminating all their waste is great, but thousands of people doing 20 percent better will have a much bigger impact. And you likely already have all the tools you need to begin. In her debut book, Bonneau gives readers the facts to motivate them to do better, the simple (and usually free) fixes to ease them into wasting less, and finally, the recipes and strategies to turn them into self-reliant, money-saving cooks and makers. Rescue a hunk of bread from being sent to the landfill by making Mexican Hot Chocolate Bread Pudding, or revive some sad greens to make a pesto. Save 10 dollars (and the plastic tub) at the supermarket with Yes Whey, You Can Make Ricotta Cheese, then use the cheese in a galette and the leftover whey to make sourdough tortillas. With 75 vegan and vegetarian recipes for cooking with scraps, creating fermented staples, and using up all your groceries before they go bad--including end-of-recipe notes on what to do with your ingredients next--Bonneau lays out an attainable vision for a zero-waste kitchen.
An introduction to soap making that includes step-by-step illustrations and instructions for making cold press soap, molding soap, cutting bars, creating new recipes, building a soap mold, liner, and cutter, and packaging soaps as gifts.
"With this new comprehensive guide, herbalist Jan Berry offers everything the modern-day enthusiast needs to make incredible botanical soaps. Beginners can join in the sudsy fun with detailed tutorials and step-by-step photographs for making traditional cold-process soap and the more modern hot-process method with a slow cooker...Featured resources are Jan's handy guides to common soapmaking essential oils and their properties, oil and milk infusions with healing herbs and easy decoration techniques. The book also contains Jan's highly anticipated natural colorants gallery showcasing more than 50 soaps that span the rainbow."--
People are used to buying their soaps from the market. This is because they don’t know how to make their own at home. If they knew how to make soap at home, they could avoid being exposed to the harmful preservatives and other ingredients in commercial soaps, shampoos, detergents and body washes. This Book guides you on how to make different types of liquid soaps. From shampoos to hand soaps, there are 25 recipes here you can follow and learn to make your own soaps. No longer do you have to spend money on buying soaps or put yourself in harm's way by using chemical-laden products. The recipes mentioned here will show you that making liquid soap at home is not as difficult as you might think.
This exhilarating story is the transporting tale of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman.
A memoir and cookbook from the creator of the gourmet Korean-Mexican taco truck Kogi and the star of Netflix’s The Chef Show. “Roy Choi sits at the crossroads of just about every important issue involving food in the twenty-first century. As he goes, many will follow.” —Anthony Bourdain Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; the city that raised and shaped Roy Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who decided to leave behind fine dining to feed the city he loved—and, with the creation of the Korean taco, reinvented street food along the way. Abounding with both the food and the stories that gave rise to Choi’s inspired cooking, L.A. Son takes us through the neighborhoods and streets most tourists never see, from the hidden casinos where gamblers slurp fragrant bowls of pho to Downtown’s Jewelry District, where a ten-year-old Choi wolfed down Jewish deli classics between diamond deliveries; from the kitchen of his parents’ Korean restaurant and his mother’s pungent kimchi to the boulevards of East L.A. and the best taquerias in the country, to, at last, the curbside view from one of his emblematic Kogi taco trucks, where people from all walks of life line up for a revolutionary meal. Filled with over eighty-five inspired recipes that meld the overlapping traditions and flavors of L.A.—including Korean fried chicken, tempura potato pancakes, homemade chorizo, and Kimchi and Pork Belly Stuffed Pupusas—L.A. Son embodies the sense of invention, resourcefulness, and hybrid attitude of the city from which it takes its name, as it tells the transporting, unlikely story of how a Korean American kid went from lowriding in the streets of L.A. to becoming an acclaimed chef.
Handmade soap is made extra-special with the addition of milk! Soaps enriched with milk are creamier than those made with water, and milk’s natural oils provide skin-renewing moisture and nourishment. In Milk Soaps, expert soapmaker Anne-Marie Faiola, author of Pure Soapmaking and Soap Crafting, demystifies the process with step-by-step techniques and 35 recipes for making soaps that are both beautiful and useful. She explains the keys to success in using a wide range of milk types, including cow, goat, and even camel milk, along with nut and grain milks such as almond, coconut, hemp, rice, and more. Photographs show soapmakers of all levels how to achieve a variety of distinctive color and shape effects, including funnels, swirls, layers, and insets. For beginners and experts alike, this focused guide to making milk-enriched soaps offers an opportunity to expand their soapmaking skills in new and exciting ways.
