Formulating Your Own Soap Recipes: The Definitive Guide and Reference for Creating Unique Formulations & Recipes

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.