Author: Marta Tarallo Publisher: Quadrille Publishing ISBN: 9781787136687 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
Sustainability is creeping into all aspects of our lives. The beauty industry is one of the biggest polluters, littering our oceans with used plastic bottles and containers - therefor, there is now a growing movement looking for cleaner and greener way to beautify. Learn how to simplify your beauty regime with Botanical Soaps as this book shows you how to create your own beauty products using all natural ingredients. Demystify your skin type and discover how to combat bathroom plastic, minimize your routine by making your own soaps, shampoo bars and other beauty products including, lip butters, cleansers, bath salts and natural deodorants. Botanical Soaps is a beautiful and inspiring guide that will encourage you to green up your beauty regime with all natural, organic projects that are kinder to both the planet and your skin.
Author: Jan Berry Publisher: ISBN: 1624143849 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
"With this new comprehensive guide, herbalist Jan Berry offers everything the modern-day enthusiast needs to make incredible botanical soaps. Beginners can join in the sudsy fun with detailed tutorials and step-by-step photographs for making traditional cold-process soap and the more modern hot-process method with a slow cooker...Featured resources are Jan's handy guides to common soapmaking essential oils and their properties, oil and milk infusions with healing herbs and easy decoration techniques. The book also contains Jan's highly anticipated natural colorants gallery showcasing more than 50 soaps that span the rainbow."--
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781950671021 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
Created as a companion to the Herbal Academy's Botanical Skin Care Course, we've captured many of our favorite tried-and-tested skincare recipes into one delicious herbal book. Whether you're looking for a rich cream to pamper your face, a soothing salve for minor first aid, or topical support for a chronic skin condition, we've got something for you here. By the time you work your way through this recipe collection, you'll have a full cupboard of incredible botanical skincare products to share with your friends and family--and maybe even your pets and neighbors, too.
Author: Babs Behan Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing ISBN: 1787132870 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
Learn how to transform foraged wild plants, plants, garden produce and recycled food into dyes and inks with Botanical Inks. The book shows you how to extract environmentally sustainable colour from the landscape and use it to create natural dyes for textiles, clothing, paper and other materials. Botanical Inks covers dyeing and surface application techniques, including bundle dyeing, Shibori tie-dyeing, hapazome, indigo sugar vat dyeing, wood-block printing, screen printing and more. And it also shows you how to turn your new inks, dyes and technique knowledge into wonderful projects, from a simple bundle-dyed a scarf to a block-printed tote bag. The process of turning plants into print can help you reconnect with nature, find a creative outlet and develop a mindful sense of presence. It also promotes an awareness of sustainable practices and how to reduce our impact on the planet.
Author: Marie Browning Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9780806972152 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Just take commercially available glycerine or coconut-oil base, cut it up, and melt it in the microwave. Pour the liquid into moulds to set - and let the real fun begin. This text offers information on different types of aromatics and essential oils.
Author: Anne-Marie Faiola Publisher: Storey Publishing ISBN: 161212089X Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
Make your own custom-tailored and perfectly formed cold-process soaps! Learn how to use milk jugs and yogurt containers for molds, and how coffee, avocado, and even beer can add unique dimensions to your creations. This encouraging introduction to the art of soapmaking makes it simple to master the techniques you need to safely and easily produce your own enticingly fragrant soaps.
Author: Jan Berry Publisher: Page Street Publishing ISBN: 1624148751 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 459
Book Description
Create Beautiful Herbal Soaps The Safe, Easy & Fast Way Feel good about pampering yourself with these artisanal soaps featuring natural botanicals, colorants and exfoliants. This comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to melt-and-pour soapmaking from Jan Berry, author of Simple & Natural Soapmaking, includes 50 inspiring recipes plus design tutorials and a stunning natural colorant gallery. Her method is incredibly easy; all you need to do is melt your soap base, infuse it with healing herbs or flowers, add essential oils and natural colorants, and pour it into a beautiful mold. As soon as your soap is dry, it’s ready to use! This method is a safe soapmaking technique that doesn’t require handling lye. Plus, because it’s so simple, many projects make for excellent family-friendly crafts. Kids will love helping out with simple soaps like Sunflower Sunshine Bars or playing with Aromatherapy Soap Dough. As you work through the projects, Jan leads you through a variety of techniques step by step. From simple herbal infusions in Wildflower Honey Soap to advanced methods of layering and swirling as in the Ocean Waves Soap, there’s always another project to excite beginner and advanced soapmakers alike. Here, you’ll find all the information and inspiration you need to make soaps that are gentle on your skin and fun to make! Expand your herbal product collection with these other books in Jan Berry's bestselling series: - Simple & Natural Soapmaking - The Big Book of Homemade Products for Your Skin, Health & Home (coming April 2020, available for pre-order now)
Author: Kandra Churchwell Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
The Natural Soap Color Palette gives you the tools you need to color your soap with nature's own colorants. Join Kandra in her exploration of over 22 natural soap colors from infusions and custom blends. You'll be empowered to start your own soap color experiments and be on your way to creating your own new color blends: - Learn how to make botanical infusions, teas, decoctions, and slurries. - Understand how to masterbatch lye, what a water discount actually is, and how to use ratio's for simplified water calculations.- Find out how to track your infusions, and how to calculate how much oil you have in an infusion jar.- Learn how to make a single bar "micro" batch.- Learn how to mix existing colors to make new colors, including blended greens and an array of purples. - Learn how colors fade overtime, and what to do about it.- Discover how to keep your soaps white and why not all charcoal makes black soap while some makes soap too black.- Includes Kandra's recipe for her "anti-alkanet" purple powder!About the Author and Soapmaker: Kandra has been making soap with natural colorants since 2010. She is the proud mother of 3 homeschooled children and lives with her husband in Denver, Colorado. Her struggles with finding a perfect reproducible purple started her down her path to color blending, finding new ways to create soap colors with all-natural ingredients, and have introduced her to lifelong along the way. She wrote this guide to natural colors with the hopes of sharing her joy of soapmaking, nature, and the combination of her artistic passions with other soapmakers. Kandra's natural soap colors have been brightening the showers and sinks of her customers for years, and now they can find a new glory in your soaps! This book a guide to help you understand how to extract colors from nature through infusions, teas, decoctions, and botanicals. It will help you to not only have a better understanding of the process but provide the skills you need to go beyond simply following instructions from a recipe. You will have a better understanding of how your ingredients affect the color of your soap and how to create your own unique soap colors.Colors featured in this book include: - Green: created from slurries and blends of yellows and blues - Orange: from infusions and carrots ranging from sunny yellows to bright orange and peach tones. - Purple: going beyond the all-might alkanet root and exploring how to blend a perfect purple from reds, blacks, and blues. - Black: including charcoal grays to midnight blacks that don't stain - White: understanding what makes a soap white, and how to manipulate your process to create a beautiful white to creamy off-white.
Author: Juliet Sear Publisher: David and Charles ISBN: 1446377881 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 552
Book Description
“Sear’s food styling background is apparent . . . Home bakers looking to up their decorating game will want to check out this eye-catching cookbook.” —Publishers Weekly Learn how to perfect the prettiest trend in cake decorating—using edible flowers and herbs to decorate your cakes and bakes—with this impossibly beautiful guide from celebrity baker Juliet Sear. Learn what flowers are edible and great for flavour, how to use, preserve, store and apply them including pressing, drying and crystallising flowers and petals. Then follow Juliet step-by- step as she creates around twenty beautiful botanical cakes that showcase edible flowers and herbs, including more top trends such as a confetti cake, a wreath cake, a gin and tonic cake, floral chocolate bark, a naked cake, a jelly cake, a letter cake and more. “I’m not sure yet which is more impressive, Juliet’s decorating skills or how good her cakes taste.” —Buddy Valastro of Cake Boss “A feast for the eyes. You’ll not find a more beautiful baking book. Blooming marvellous!” —Fearne Cotton, English broadcaster and author “Juliet’s stunning botanical book shouts springtime and happy times!” —Melissa Hemsley, author of Feel Good: Quick and Easy Recipes for Comfort and Joy “A new kind of professional has now entered thefood business: cakeologist. Well known in theU.K. forherfanciful creations with edibleblooms (shecounts PrinceHarry, KateMoss, and SirIan McKellen among hercustomers), Searoffers 30 wares to U.S. bakers . . . Sear, who’s been highlighted in Martha Stewart Weddings, deserves a major ‘hip!’ for her forher accomplishments.” —Booklist (starred review)
Author: Rick Darke Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604697393 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 393
Book Description
“This thoughtful, intelligent book is all about connectivity, addressing a natural world in which we are the primary influence.” —The New York Times Books Review Many gardeners today want a home landscape that nourishes and fosters wildlife, but they also want beauty, a space for the kids to play, privacy, and maybe even a vegetable patch. Sure, it’s a tall order, but The Living Landscape shows you how to do it. You’ll learn the strategies for making and maintaining a diverse, layered landscape—one that offers beauty on many levels, provides outdoor rooms and turf areas for children and pets, incorporates fragrance and edible plants, and provides cover, shelter, and sustenance for wildlife. Richly illustrated and informed by both a keen eye for design and an understanding of how healthy ecologies work, The Living Landscape will enable you to create a garden that fulfills both human needs and the needs of wildlife communities.
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