My birthday is coming up and MIL & FIL have offered to buy some soap-making books for me. I'm a soaping newbie, vegetarian, more interested in using natural colours/fragrances (if any) than artificial stuff, and I think at some stage I'd like to try liquid soaps too...
I've looked at 'the everything soapmaking book' & 'the natural soap book'... any thoughts on either of those? Any other suggestions?
And do you think it is worth getting books, or are they just a repeat of stuff I'd find on the web? I do a fair bit of reading online and have managed so far to figure out what I'm doing, with plenty of new ideas to try when I have time... it'd be annoying if I got a book and it just told me what I already know. Should I ask for other bits and bobs (a couple of essential oils maybe?) instead? Or I could completely freak out my MIL and ask for some potassium hydroxide, I have no idea where to find that but FIL is a retired chemical engineer so I'm sure he'd dig some up
I've looked at 'the everything soapmaking book' & 'the natural soap book'... any thoughts on either of those? Any other suggestions?
And do you think it is worth getting books, or are they just a repeat of stuff I'd find on the web? I do a fair bit of reading online and have managed so far to figure out what I'm doing, with plenty of new ideas to try when I have time... it'd be annoying if I got a book and it just told me what I already know. Should I ask for other bits and bobs (a couple of essential oils maybe?) instead? Or I could completely freak out my MIL and ask for some potassium hydroxide, I have no idea where to find that but FIL is a retired chemical engineer so I'm sure he'd dig some up