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Homestead Blessings: The Art of Soap Making DVD
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Bring creative flair to your home with "The Art of Soap Making", the new DVD from the West ladies. Full of instructive step-by-steps, artful how-tos, and entertaining advice in the pleasurable and highly useful activity of making soap, you'll receive instruction in basic soaps, decorative soaps, soap balls, hand-milled soaps and much more! This DVD is packed with a host of activities sure to brighten your home, teach valuable skills, and cultivate family creativity. Duration: 50 Minutes.

Making Natural Liquid Soaps
Catherine Failor
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With Catherine Failor's easy hot-process soapmaking technique and a few simple, pure ingredients, such as cocoa butter, lanolin, and jojoba, readers can create liquid soaps that are better for their skin, better for the environment, and just plain better than those they'll find in a store. Failor includes simple directions -- illustrated with lavish color photographs -- for blending oils and additives, adding color and scent, and developing one-of-a-kind personal liquid soaps at home. Included are recipes for moisturizing hand soaps, revitalizing shampoos, invigorating shower gels, soothing bubble baths, and even baby and pet shampoos! Paperback, 133 pages.

The Natural Soap Book
Susan Miller Cavitch
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Discover how to make your own natural bars of soap! Beginning with the properties and instructions for the basic ingredients of lye and water, oils, fats, scents, nutrients, preservatives, and other additives, soap-makers also receive information on setting up and making the soap, ideas for selling soap, and plenty of recipes to try out. 182 indexed pages, softcover.

Making Natural Milk Soap
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Discover how to make your own natural milk soap! Detailed information and recipes on how to make different types of milk-made soap are included. This Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin features practical, hands-on instructions will help you master earth-friendly traditional skills. 32 pages, paperback.

The Herbal Home Spa: Naturally Refreshing Wraps, Rubs, Lotions, Masks, Oils, and Scrubs
Greta Breedlove
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These easy recipes include facial steams, scrubs, masks, and lip balms; massage oils, baths, rubs, and wraps; hand, nail, and foot treatments; and shampoos, hair conditioners, and natural dyes. Also offers bathing rituals and massage techniques. A Selection of the One Spirit Book Club. Paperback, 201 pages.

The Essential Oils Book
Colleen K. Dodt
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Fragrant essences lift the spirits, stimulate the senses, and enhance relaxation after a trying day. This practical guide shows how essential oils -- used at home and on the go -- can greatly improve the quality of busy lives.

Expert Colleen Dodt includes dozens of simple recipes featuring essential oils for combating stress, PMS, sunburn, and other common health conditions. She details the uses of essential oils and the powers of aromatherapy at home, at the office, and in the car, and she provides readers with recipes for safe and fragrant cleaning products.

This comprehensive resource on the everyday uses of aromatherapy is sure to delight readers and help them bring the benefits of aromatherapy into their lives. A Selection of the Crafter's Choice Book Club. Paperback, 160 pages.

Aromatheraphy Massage from Head to Toe, Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-254
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Aromatherapy Massage from Head to Toe offers step-by-step instructions for full-body, scalp, face, hand, and foot massages. You'll also find recipes for aromatic massage oil blends that lift the spirits and soothe the body. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins are practical and engaging for anyone seeking advice and inspiration on do-it-yourself topics.

Making Herbal Hand Creams & Salves (A-256)
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Discover how to create your own herbal hand creams and salves! Notes on evaluating commercial products and recipes for specific purposes are included. This Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin features practical, hands-on instructions will help you master earth-friendly traditional skills. 32 pages, paperback.

Milk-Based Soaps
Casey Makela
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Learn how to make moisturizing milk-based soaps and how to turn this hobby into a moneymaker! A Selection of the Crafter's Choice Book Club. Paperback, 112 pages.

Making Transparent Soap
Catherine Failor
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Contrary to popular belief, making beautiful see-through soap does not require special equipment, expensive supplies, or complex preparation. With some common ingredients and Catherine Failor's precise instructions, readers can craft many stunning transparent soaps in their own kitchens! Gorgeous photographs and clear text offer readers a thorough exploration of this soapmaking technique. Failor includes a full range of recipes and tips for creating unique and beautiful transparent soap masterpieces. Paperback, 133 pages.

The Soapmaker's Companion
Susan Miller Cavitch
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This illustrated guide contains instructions to making over 40 specialty soaps - from exquisite stained-glass, marbled, and layered soaps to soothing masseuse bars, hardworking laundry soap, and practical liquid soaps. Through clear, step-by-step instructions, master soapmaker Susan Miller Cavitch leads you through every step of the soapmaking process.

Perfumes, Splashes & Colognes
Nancy M. Booth
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The author, a professional perfumer, takes readers into the world of creating personal fragrances. She begins with a "Personal Scent Profile Quiz" that will allow readers to pinpoint their fragrance preferences and then create personal, custom-made perfumes, splashes, and colognes.

It guides readers through the steps of how to blend fragrances, care for and store their products, and even package their creations as attractive gifts. Readers will love this expert's guide to the world of perfumery and information on how to create their own signature perfume. Move over Coco Chanel! A Selection of the Crafter's Choice Book Club. Paperback, 160 pages.

25 Aromatheraphy Blends for De-Stressing (A-244)
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Relieving the stres of modern life needn't be complicated or time consuming. Just a whiff of the right oil can adjust your attitude, clarify your thinking, steady your resolve or even ease your pain. Here are fast and simple natural treatments, including relaxing blends for diffusers, invigorating flower water mists, facial treatments and more.

Making Aromatherapy Creams & Lotions
Donna Maria
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A reader's guide to creating exciting, unique, and personal aromatherapy cosmetics and body-care products using all-natural ingredients. Paperback, 163 pages.