The creator of the natural skin care line Moon Magic, Liz McQuerry offers here a step-by-step guide for natural cold-process soap crafting. Mostly utilizing kitchen ingredients to create a variety of innovative soap blends-including felted soap, beer soap, and seasonal soaps-McQuerry will put you in touch with your inner alchemist. From body bars to hair care bars, with wonderful tidbits and advice on herbs and essential oil blends, you and your family...

"Soapmaking is a wonderful hobby that combines both science and art. No matter your reason for jumping into the craft of soapmaking, one thing is for certain...your skin will thank you! What we put ON our bodies is just as important as what we put IN our bodies. When you make your own soap, you can control what you put on your body by choosing skin loving oils and butters such as olive oil and shea butter, beneficial additives such as herbs and clays...

Instructive step-by-step, artful how-tos, and entertaining advice in the pleasurable and highly useful activity of making soap. Includes basic soaps, decorative soaps, soap balls, hand-milled soaps and more.

"Abigail has moved to Soap Lake, Washington to assist with her husband's research. Instead of craft beer and folksy neighbours, she finds a dry, desolate landscape around a town subsisting on its meagre crops. What's more, her husband has left her there alone for six months to go on a research trip. One day, across the hardpan desert, a boy runs out of the brush literally into Abigail's arms. He is catatonic, and his clothes are covered with blood....

Soaps made with milk lather cleanse gently, without stripping skin of its natural oils. Faiola guides you through the process of creating your own moisturizing soaps using a wide variety of milks, from cow and goat to vegan nut milks. She also shows how to achieve decorative effects, including swirls, insets, and layers. -- adapted from back cover

Features twenty-nine recipes for making all-vegetable, cold-process soap, provides information about ingredients, discussing fats and oils, colorants, and fragrances, offers troubleshooting advice, and includes an introduction to the science underlying soapmaking, and tips for starting a soapmaking business.

Lavender and olive oil, honey and oatmeal ... explore the art of natural soapmaking, with step-by-step instructions and photographs."--Back cover.

Projects and experiments use soap to explain such topics as surface tension and air currents, as well as why soap gets things clean.

It is time for the Stermont Derby, a race around downtown Stermont in homemade vehicles, and Alexander, Nikki, and Rip are planning to compete, but so is a new monster, a Speedah-cheetah--and in addition to a diet of rotten eggs it plans on eating the race losers, especially the members of the Super Secret Monster Patrol.