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Melt and Pour Soap Recipes with Deborah Dolen & Techniques Book & Film

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Over 80 of the best melt and pour soap recipes and techniques created by author and designer Deborah Dolen. This is one of the first and the most comprehensive melt and pour soap books on the market. The first draft was written in year 2000 and expanded on since that time.  From start to finish this 61 page book shows you how to work with melt and pour soap bases with many clever ideas including the incorporation of soothing herbs and botanicals or ingredients from around the house! Melt your old face masks and cold creams to go in your new soap!  Deborah Dolen is a big proponent of recycling as long as the material is not "years" old.  Deborah also provides a full natural coloration chart so you can use spices and other handy natural elements to achieve color.  This book sells on the shelves for $19.95 but is offered here in ebook format for $9.95.  Soap sweating?  One of Deborah's readers who sells melt and pour soap at Farmer's Markets, reports dipping dry melt and pour soap products in child safe water based puzzle glue to keep the beauty of her soap intact when taking them to market.  Deborah has tried this and it does have merit.  Melt and pour soap is always glycerin based, and glycerin does attract water from the air - but another reason it is a superb moisturizer for skin. About the Author

Melt and pour soaps are utilitarian in nature and can be made for many functions of the home. A few examples examples in the melt and pour soap family include: Coffee Bean and Vanilla Deodorizing Soap for the kitchen, (shown below) as well as Peppermint Hand Sanitizing Soap, All Spice Soap, Gent's Canadian Balsam Fir/Basil Shaving Soap, Calamine Soap, French Pink Clay Facial Soap, Gardener's Soap, Achy Day Soap, Chunk Soaps, Hemp Soap, Headache Bars with Rosemary, the new Shampoo Bars, Herbal Soaps and so much more that you can make right at home! 

Taking your products to market?  Deborah also gives the reader great packaging ideas. Written by Deborah Dolen for Mabel White DIY publications.  Related articles and writings by Author Deborah Dolen: Click here for Table of Contents  Click here for video clip on Amazon. Registered National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ISBN 1-894872-04-5 Melt and Pour Recipes and Formulas. Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2002-2011.

Make Your Own Perfume  Make Your Own Lip Sugar Scrub

The soap on a rope (shown on the cover of the book above)  is very easy to make, one of the techniques that requires no heat and a great project for kids as well as adults.  It requires simply shredding and moistening a colorful melt and pour soap base (2 bars) and making into a hard packed snowball which also anchors the cord.   A simple bow at the top of the chord conceals the mechanics of where the the cord meets the soap.

Soap Q and A with the Author

Ivory is not soap.  Ivory is fun to carve and that is about it with commercial soaps.  No commercial soaps will melt in your microwave and gross results if you try.  You rarely see the word "soap" on the commercial stuff-mainly they are called "bars" for a reason.  Burt's Bees established in mid 2000's what goes on your skin does end up in your blood stream.  Consider using natural soaps for that reason alone.   

I like glycerin soap as well as the old fashioned cold or hot process soaps using lye (castile is what I make the most).  I find melt and pour glycerin soap great for projects and gifts, and overall exceptional to moisturize the skin.  I find hot/cold process best for true natural and gentle cleansing. I use both glycerin bases and castile bases (made with lye) in my home.

Just one fabulous example of the original ideas in our Melt and Pour Soaps Book is the Farmhouse Kitchen Deodorizing Bar on the left.  Between the scent of vanilla and coffee grounds, the smell of onions and/or garlic on your hands do not stand a chance!  These bars are so beautiful it would appear you paid $10 each for them or more.   There are so many recipes you can run with, when making your own melt and pour soap, it is truly amazing.  We are partial to the honey bee soap and calamine soap for kids with itchy skin.    

If you love to make soap and bath care items, you may want to also consider our new The Bathroom Chemist to learn how to make bath bombs, the new shampoo and lotion bars and more, along with The Self Apothecary our best selling book on how to make your own bath products. For the soap making lovers, consider making vegetable and botanical soaps the old fashioned way with The Natural Soap Maker and The Soap Rebatcher by Deborah Dolen.  Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2000-2011 ISBN 1-894872-04-5 Melt and Pour Soaps, Recipes and Formulas.