Making Candles and Soaps For Dummies
Description
Whether you're a beginner or seasoned craftsperson, this fun, fragrant book offers all the information to get started right away! With everything from the "how-tos" of candle making and soap making to a wealth of tips and information, this jam- packed guide combines two of the most popular crafts today! Making Candles & Soaps For Dummies will feature quick, inexpensive and fun ways to make your own candles and soap at a fraction of the cost of store-bought ones. Detailed step-by-step illustrations and photos help the reader follow along with ease. Full color insert will feature beautiful, bright colored candles and soap products you can make in your own home. Candle projects will cover a wide range of candle making and decorating techniques, including learning how to dye wax wonderful colors, pour it into unusually shaped molds, perfume it, model with it, and embed it with decorative objects. In addition, create candles for the holidays, for entertaining, and gift giving. Learn how to even create floating candles for a pool or pond. Home soap making projects will cover directions for fragrant hand soaps of all shapes and sizes, inexpensive laundry soaps, leather soaps, medicinal soaps, shaving lather, liquid soaps, herbal soaps and shampoos.