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Easy steps for making curative and healing soaps using household ingredients this book gives readers all the easy steps for making soaps that help to heal our bodies as they comfort our minds. Recipes include antiseptic soaps; poison ivy soaps; soaps for acne; soaps for helping to heal measles, chicken pox, and bruises; and a collection of emollient healing soaps.

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Offers instructions for making homemade soap with healing herbs and flowers, includes recipes for goldenseal soap, jewelweed soap, witch hazel soap, lavender and rosemary soap, oat and barly soap, and sunflower soap.

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2.0 von 5 Sternen Nice photos, but the recipes are marginal., 17. M�rz 2000

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Rezension bezieht sich auf: Soothing Soaps (Taschenbuch)

Better glycerin Melt & Pour soap recipes can be found for free on the Internet. As usual, this somewhat spacey author ignores known hazards of certain essential oils and recommends unqualified use of them. 'Baby's Bottom Repair Soap' made with chemical-based Melt & Pour glycerin and Balsam of Peru is a recipe for disaster. 'Balsam of Peru & Benzoin Anti-Itch Soap' is even worse. Think at least twice twice before making her 'Pine Tar Soap and Shampoo Bar'. All of the essential oils mentioned can be extreme sensitizers. Her New Age drivel on Sunshine, Moonbeam and Lightning Water products are totally over the edge. Basically, this book is for people who enjoy talking to plants.

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1.0 von 5 Sternen this book is a joke, 15. Februar 2000

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I had some respect for Sandy Maine and her Sunfeather company until I bought and read this book. I can see her premise being noble; she wants to use herbs and other ingredients effectively and these things do not survive saponification, so she has placed them into Melt & Pour soap. The thing is, M&P soap is one of the worst things you can wash your skin with because it is made with solvents like alcohol, propylene glycol (aka antifreeze), and other chemicals. It is drying. It is no better than the detergent-laced bars most of the world buys and uses.

She has a recipe in this book that is touted as an "Anti-Itch Soap", but the problem is that she tells you to use Peru balsam and benzoin in this recipe. These two products are known skin sensitizers, two of the most common additives that will cause contact dermatitis. She has a recipe for babies that calls for Peru balsam; this soap is supposed to ward off diaper rash. The baby is more likely to get diaper rash if mommy washes it with this weird soap.

There is this misconception floating around out in the soaping collective unconscious that anything that comes from nature is good for you, especially if you put it into products to be used on the skin. No responsible soapmaker would SELL soap that contains known irritants as something to quell skin irritation, so why are these recipes in this book? Some of the worst poisons come straight out of nature and plants. There is no reason for adding these items to a product that is short-lived and limited in therapeutic scope. M&P soap does not stick around for long, as it has a tendency to absorb ambient water in the air and gradually melt. For this reason, the soap absorbing water, these soaps could actually be quite dangerous to use, as water provides an ideal breeding ground for bacteria and fungi. The book should have "Use at your own risk" stamped on the front, but I guess it wouldn't sell as much copies that way.

I came away from this book feeling that Ms. Maine is having the last laugh all the way to the bank. Every one of these recipes calls for M&P soap base, and in her pathetically short list of soapmaking suppliers in the back of the book, her company is the only one listed that sells M&P soap base.

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3.0 von 5 Sternen Easy Variations for Melt and Pour Recipes, 23. April 2000

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This is the 2nd book I have purchased by Sandy Maine. The pictures are wonderful as usual and the variations versatile and easy to follow. The resource guide is very helpful. She offers helpful information on the herbs used and explains how each used can benefit the user. It does not however, give a basic recipe for making the transparent soap as she did in an earlier book. I think at least one should have been included. This book is basically for melt-and-pourers.

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2.0 von 5 Sternen Not what you might expect
The soaps are truly beautiful to look at with all the different colors and textures. I expected recipes for cold process soap and not the use of melt and pour bases so I am not... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 25. Oktober 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen Excellent for beginners.
If you live in an apartment, or don't have the space to make soap from scratch, this book is perfect. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 10. April 1999 ver�ffentlicht

5.0 von 5 Sternen This is truly a fun book!
Really enjoyed this book. This book gives the reader information concerning the healing properties of herbs, and some very unusual herbs, at that. Lesen Sie weiter...