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Summary: Average at Best
Review: I had the same problem many had with this book. The soap recipes are just one recipe with simple changes in EOs and Fillers. Ho..Hummm. What filled 52 pages should have taken maybe 6.The balance of the book contains recipes for Bodycare and Natural Homekeeping. While the Bodycare recipes looked inviting, most of the Homekeeping recipes were not acceptable to me. I say that only because of the use of one ingredient...sodium lauryl sulfocacetate. After doing some research on this surfectant, I found that while it's deemed to be milder than either SLS or SLES (which I don't use in my home), it is still considered an irritant ("Synthetic detergent made from sulphur trioxide and fatty alcohols derived from coconut oils.") If this ingredient seems okay for you to use, the rest of the ingredients do appear to be completely natural. And although I don't think I'd have a use for "Beeswax Saddle Soap", I would for the "Herbal Sleep Pillow". I truly wish there was a completely naturaly substitute for the SLSulfoacetate...then this book would be more useful to me. As it is, it unfortunately goes in my library donation pile.
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Summary: Average at Best
Review: I had the same problem many had with this book. The soap recipes are just one recipe with simple changes in EOs and Fillers. Ho..Hummm. What filled 52 pages should have taken maybe 6. The balance of the book contains recipes for Bodycare and Natural Homekeeping. While the Bodycare recipes looked inviting, most of the Homekeeping recipes were not acceptable to me. I say that only because of the use of one ingredient...sodium lauryl sulfocacetate. After doing some research on this surfectant, I found that while it's deemed to be milder than either SLS or SLES (which I don't use in my home), it is still considered an irritant ("Synthetic detergent made from sulphur trioxide and fatty alcohols derived from coconut oils.") If this ingredient seems okay for you to use, the rest of the ingredients do appear to be completely natural. And although I don't think I'd have a use for "Beeswax Saddle Soap", I would for the "Herbal Sleep Pillow". I truly wish there was a completely naturaly substitute for the SLSulfoacetate...then this book would be more useful to me. As it is, it unfortunately goes in my library donation pile.
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Summary: Anything New?
Review: I have several soap making books that I love. This is not one of them. I have been making soap for years, and my friends and family look forward to every batch I make. I thought I'd crack this book open and give it a try. I never had a single batch from this book turn out perfect. On page 21, it says that trace will occur after 10 minutes of stirring. I found that to be a rather short amount of time in my experience, but knowing I had followed the directions to the letter, and my measurments were exact, I waited to see what would happen. Finally after 30 minutes when my arm was about to fall off, and there was still no trace, I just gave up and poured the batch into the mold. It did turn out to be soap, but it was rather soft. I would not recommend this book to anyone- especially if you are a beginner soapmaker, because there is no trouble-shooting guide for them. I'm getting rid of this book.
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Summary: What? Is there nothing new in soap making?
Review: If you own Sandy Maine's books "The Soap Book" and "Soothing Soaps" do not waste your money on this one. Everything in the other two books is in this one "word for word". There are a few new receipes but not enough to make it worth your money to purchase this one if you already own the others. I was disappointed.
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Summary: What? Is there nothing new in soap making?
Review: If you own Sandy Maine's books "The Soap Book" and "Soothing Soaps" do not waste your money on this one. Everything in the other two books is in this one "word for word". There are a few new receipes but not enough to make it worth your money to purchase this one if you already own the others. I was disappointed.
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Summary: Anything New?
Review: Scanning through this book, I just wanted to let others know that it appears that Sandy Maine has just taken her first book ("The Soap Book"), added a few new ideas to it and called it a new book. All of the introduction and the body soap recipes are word for word identical. I hate it when authors do this, and find it borderline dishonest. By the way, "The Soap Book" is a nice little book for the price, more for the general info and photography than for the recipes, which are all variations of one theme, each of which makes too much of one type of soap, and uses way too much essential oil.
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Summary: Eco-friendly & easy-to-read recipes for natural home living
Review: The author is well known up here and this new book of hers is a great for any one who wants to run a more eco-friendly and economical household. It gives recipes for safe house cleaning solutions, laundry cleaners (this is an excellent section), and personal soaps for adults. There are even recipes for homemade diaper rash cream for babies (which I used on my fourteen-month old) and an all-natural flea shampoo for pets (which I used on our standard poodle). It is also a great read--lots of good advice and ideas for cutting down on harmful products we routinely use on our selves and in our home. I plan to give this as part of a shower present to a cousin of mine who is getting married.
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Summary: a truely wonderful experience
Review: This book was passed on to me from a friend and I am so happy it has come into my hands. Clean, Naturally is packed full of interesting, usefull information that is good for knowledge and functional purposes. The photography is exquisite and all the stories make each soap that more special. Wonderfully constructed! Now I have plenty of projects to do for the wintertime!
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