Bramble Berry Soap Making Supplies is proud to offer its selection of some of the most informative and fun-to-read books on the art of soapmaking and candlemaking.
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Aromatherapy & Massage for Mother & Baby
by Allison England
Fragrant, gentle essential oils are ideally suited to the special needs of women during pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood. This newly revised edition of the definitive guide provides the reader with expert advice on using essential oils in massage, baths, compresses, lotions, and inhalations. Special sections on massage give complete instructions for easing the discomforts of pregnancy, relieving the pain of labor and birth, and facilitating the bonding of mother and child. Written by a registered nurse trained in herbal medicine, reflexology, and massage.
ISBN 0-89281-898-0
Paperback, 176 pages; 6" x 9"
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Aromatherapy & Massage for Mother & Baby
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Aromatherapy for Women - A Practical Guide to Essential Oils for Health and Beauty
by Maggie Tisserand
Extracted from flowers and herbs, aromatic essential oils have been used for centuries to heal and beautify, offering a gentle yet effective alternative in the treatment of illness, stress, and imbalance. Maggie Tisserand brings a wealth of practical experience to this book, focusing on women and their particular health and beauty concerns. She shows how the unique properties of specific essences can be used to maintain healthy hair and skin, ease minor complaints, and assist in treating more serious health problems. Includes recipes for preparing your own oils, baths, perfumes, masks, compresses, and other remedies.
ISBN 0-89281-628-7
Paperback, 176 pages; 5.5" x 8.25"
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Aromatherapy for Women
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Kid's Crafts: Soapmaking - 50 Fun and Fabulous Soaps to Melt and Pour
by Joe Rhatigan
Melt-and-pour soapmaking is the perfect easy and safe craft for kids, and this is the ideal guide to teach them how to do it. All the basics are covered to ensure "sud-sational" success, and 56 fun projects and nearly 300 colorful photos add to the appeal. Children will have a blast getting wacky with gross-out eyeball soaps, making soap popsicles complete with a wooden stick, getting happy with smiley faces, fashioning a soapasaurus, or cooking up "alphabet soap." Loads of cool soap facts throughout.
ISBN: 1-57990-416-5
Hardcover, 112 pages, 8 1/2 X 10", Color photos
Publisher: Lark, 2003
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Kid's Crafts: Soapmaking
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Gel Candles: 40 Creative Projects
C. Kaila Westerman
Candle gel is the hottest new product in candle crafting. This new product (95% mineral oil, 5% resin) is transparent, is extremely easy to clean up, and has a significantly longer burning time than traditional waxes. Author Kaila Westerman gives the basics of gel candle crafting in ten easy steps, then explores the endless possibilities for creating special effects and embediments such as glass, botanicals, shells, stones, and pieces of solid paraffin candle wax. Readers can create candles that look like rainbows, aquariums, seascapes, playful sodas and other drinks, and more. Since gel candles cannot stand alone, each design is enhanced by wonderful whimsical, vintage, or even sophisticated containers.
ISBN 1-58017-390-X
Paperback, 144 pages, 7" x 10", Full-color photographs
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Gel Candles
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Making Natural Liquid Soaps: Herbal Shower Gels, Conditioning Shampoos, Moisturizing Hand Soaps, Luxurious Bubble Baths and More
by Catherine Failor
Using a simple double-boiler technique, readers will make elegant and soothing liquid soaps. Dozens of recipes using oils, herbs, and other natural ingredients to create hand soaps, shower gels, bubble baths, conditioning shampoos — even baby and pet shampoos.
ISBN 1-58017-243-1
Paperback, 144 pages, 7" x 10", Full Color
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Making Natural Liquid Soaps
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Marketing Your Handmade Products: 10 Tips to Selling More
by Scott Blackson (Founder and CEO, The Soap Fairy)
Learn 10 secrets of marketing your handmade products and discover how simple it can be to get started making money by selling what you love to make.
Learn how Scott went from a pot and a wooden spoon in his kitchen to running a 2500 square foot soap manufacturing plant in just 5 years.
Whether you are trying to sell your paintings at a local art show or trying to turn your candle-making into a full time career, here are some basic, easy to follow suggestions for getting your marketing plan off the ground.
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Marketing Your Handmade Products
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Melt & Mold Soap Crafting
by C. Kaila Westerman
Soapmaking has never been this easy! The revolutionary melt-and-mold method is taking the craft world by storm. Beginning with a meltable glycerin base, crafters can create stunning specialty soaps in minutes, with no lye and no waiting. It's as easy as melt, pour, mold and decorate.
C. Kaila Westerman shares her recipes for fabulous fun creations, such as Stained Glass Soap, Cat's Eyes, Flower Images, Sunrise Soap, Layer Cake Soap, Quilters Soap, Gemstones, and many more.Color photos and step-by-step instructions for 30 different techniques.
ISBN 1-58017-293-8
Paperback, 144 pages, 7" x 10"
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Melt & Mold Soap Crafting
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Natural Soapmaking
by Marie Browning
"Soap is...one of the better crafts to consider as gifts...supplies directions for more than 20 different kinds of hand-milled soap, an easier process than starting from lye...instructions extend to bath oils and salts and to packaging, labeling, and creating a munificence of fragrance. Step-by-step descriptions are boldly illustrated with color photographs. Who could resist all-natural camomile oatmeal soap or effervescent all-natural champagne bubble bath?" - Booklist.
ISBN: 0-8069-6289-5
Paperback, 128 pages, 8 1/2 X 10", Color photos
Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 1999
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Natural Soapmaking
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The Naturally Clean Home
by Karyn Siegel-Maier
In The Naturally Clean Home, author and alternative health writer Karyn Siegel-Maier explores the safe, nontoxic, effective and inexpensive cleaning formulas that can be easily made from baking soda, vinegar, beeswax, herbs, essential oils, and other natural ingredients. With recipes for tough basement dirt-busters to fragrant air fresheners, The Naturally Clean Home has a solution for every room in the home ... and even several for the car!
ISBN: 158017194X
Paperback, 169 pages, 8.0 x 4.5 x 0.5"
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999
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The Naturally Clean Home
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Relax to the Max: 60 Candles, Scents, Soaps & Potpourri Crafts to Create Your Own Bliss
by Rosevita Warda , M. Luchsinger , Marie Browning and Dawn Cusick
Slow down (maybe even stop), and smell the roses--and the jasmine, sandalwood, peppermint, and citrus blends, too. These remarkable fragrant candles, soaps, and potpourris make it simple for overworked, stressed-out women to experience the relaxing pleasures of aromatherapy every day. Each deliciously aromatic item in this lushly illustrated manual uses pure essential oils that promote a sense of health and well being. Whether the oil permeates the air or gets absorbed through the skin, it works its magic. An introduction explains aromatherapy's benefits, and provides hints for purchasing, blending, and storing the oils. With the help of easy-to-follow directions, create a Lifting Lavender Embedded Marble Candle; muscle soothing Relief Bath with juniper, rosemary, lemon, and eucalyptus; Serenity Now soap with patchouli; and Spicy Potpourri.
ISBN: 1-4027-1931-0
Paperback, 144 pages, 8 X 8.", Color photos
Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2005
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Relax to the Max
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The Everything Soapmaking Book, 2nd edition
by Alicia Grosso
This
book covers everything from Basic Cold Process techniques to Clear Soapmaking,
Cream Soapmaking and even shows how to make those cool Geode soaps! This is the
perfect book for a beginner, but also appropriate for experienced soap makers
looking for advice on how to package, sell and price their soaps.
• Find the right ingredients and equipment
• Experiment with different
types of soap- from basic kitchen soap to the perfect facial soap
• Make and
package soaps for holidays and special occasions
• Add special scents and
colors to please the senses
• Master artistic techniques for unique shapes
and sizes
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Everything Soapmaking Book
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