More About Hand Crafted Luxury

Soap making is an age-old skill currently undergoing a popular revival. Many people are discovering how much fun it can be to make soap. With this easy to follow video, you will experience the satisfaction of making your own luxurious, moisturizing, and non-irritating soap using inexpensive ingredients that are easy to obtain.

The video also shows how to be creative in what you add to the basic soap. You can include essential oils for their delightful fragrances and beneficial qualities in accordance with the theories of aromatherapy. Or you can add herbs for their pleasant colors and their emollient, soothing properties. The video even identifies certain grains you can add to your soap for their exfoliating, cleansing effects.

All soap you make will contain at least 25% pure glycerin, a substance remarkable for it's humectant properties. Glycerin draws moisture to the skin, soothing and lubricating it's cells. Most soap sold in stores has had it's glycerin removed, only to be sold back to the consumer for skin care benefits. Also, most store soaps are actually petrochemical-based detergents, which are good cleansers but are also harsh on the skin.

The soap that you will learn to make with this video contain NO petrochemicals. All ingredients are natural.

On this video, you will:

  1. View a complete soap-making demonstration.
  2. Learn how to make soap in your own home from any oil or fat that you choose.
  3. See the equipment needed to make soap and get tips for choosing the correct supplies.
  4. Learn 3 ways to add herbs to soap.
  5. Learn basic soap chemistry.

Caution: after watching this video, you may become addicted to soap making and end up with colorful, hand-crafted soap in every room of your house. And you will always have the perfect GIFT for everyone you know!

Susan Lawrence (formerly Susan Battle), a certified herbalist, owns a soap-making business called Herbal Splendor and has been teaching others how to make soap for the last several years. She makes countless bars of soap, for sale, for gifts, but mostly for fun.

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