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This book is chalked full of recipes dating from the early 1800’s to now. The following are just a few of the categories included:

	Soap making
	Creams & Lotions
	Balms & Salves
	Perfume Bases

There is even a Strange & Bizarre section. After reading some of these recipes, it is completely understandable as to why the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was implemented.

	Reference section includes:
	definition of ingredients
	Conversion charts.
	Brief explanation on how to change batch sizes.

$24.95 Each

BK0045

Make it Fizz contains 24 recipes for Bath Bombs, Bubbly Bars and other Bath Treats from the “Queen of Fizz” Holly Port.

Holly gives you a step by step guide on how to mix and test your mixture before making Bath Bombs.

She has also included troubleshooting tips on some of the most common issues that plague BB makers.

This in depth book even provides different types of packaging ideas for your products.

$23.95 Each

BK0047

This book is printed on water-proof, oil-proof paper so it can be used in your production area without the worry of ruining it.

It is jammed packed with the following information that soapmakers tend to need when working on products.

	Conversions for many different units of weight, volume (liquid), length and temperature
	Math calculations (fractions, decimal and percentages) and math formulas
	Basic labeling requirements and how to calculate the size of your principal display panel and text sizes for your net weight and ingredient declarations
	Lye and water calculation formulas (for both NaOH and KOH), superfat calculations, lye discount and a SAP chart for most common (and uncommon) oils and fats.
	There's also a place to record your own notes and reference material, so it's handy when you need it.

Size: 7" X 5-1/4"

$8.95 Each

BK0044

This 212 page book covers the A to Z of liquid soapmaking. It provides simple step by step how to instructions from start to finish.

Recipe sections included in this book are:

	Soap Paste
	No Paste
	Soap Gels and Jellies
	Specialty Liquid Soaps

Learn how to thicken, color, fragrance naturally as well as incorporate additives to your own liquid soap. As if all the above wasn’t enough to make you want to add this book to your soaping book collection, Jackie Thompson breaks down how to formulate your own liquid soap recipes step by step. It is a must have for anyone who wants to try their hand at liquid soap.

$24.95 Each

BK0046

Soothing Soaps gives readers all the easy steps for making soaps at home. Author of the best selling Soap Book, Sandy Maine, now turns her hands to the creation of beneficent soaps to help heal our bodies and minds.

Recipes are lye free. The recipes include antiseptic soaps, poison ivy soaps, acne soaps, muscle healing, chicken pocks, bruises and emollient soaps.

DIY Kitchen Chemistry is filled with simple to follow do-it-yourself bath and body product recipes. Kayla answers every question that an potential kitchen chemist may have about the industry, ingredients and supplies.

Let your inner Kitchen Chemist out with this easy to follow book written for the everyday reader all the way to an experienced crafter.

$11.40 Each

BK0042

Establishing and then following good manufacturing practices in your business is like having and using a GPS navigator to get around town. No matter how familiar you are with the streets, it takes a lot less effort to just follow the directions.

The trick, of course, is having all the necessary information in the navigator to start with.

That’s what GMP is all about—setting up the navigation system for your production and manufacturing, so you can avoid the potholes and steer clear of the factors that could potentially wreck your product.

Learn: GMP Basics, Documentation, Standard Operating Procedures, Specification Sheets, Ingredient & Material Lot Numbers, Master Formulas, Batch Records, Batch Numbers, Quality Control and more.

$24.95 Each

BK0040

This is the first book published with recipes on the methodology of making Melt and Pour Soap base from Scratch. The basic recipes in this book will give you the freedom to make your own Melt and Pour base. It also provides tips on how to customize your base.

This book will help guide you, as a small home based business, on how you can follow the regulations, labeling laws and industry standards for selling soap and cosmetics. Whether you are a crafter, hobbyist or business owner this book has everything that you need.

$11.40 Each

BK0041

The Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably, or How to Make Luxurious Handcrafted Soaps for Family, Friends, and Yourself.

Maybe you’ve made melt-and-pour soap and want to move on to something more challenging and rewarding. Maybe traditional soapmaking appeals to you, but you figure that working with lye is too difficult or dangerous. Or maybe you’re already doing it, but outmoded ideas and methods are complicating the process and slowing you down.

No matter which of these fits you, you’ll find Smart Soapmaking practical, helpful, and refreshing. Written by a former professional soapmaker, this book explodes the myths about soapmaking and shows you how to make luxurious soap with the least fuss and bother.

With both customary and metric measurements, plus a list of suppliers in five countries, Smart Soapmaking is the first truly international book on the craft!

$12.50 Each

BK0031

Well over 50 recipes for salves, balms, lotion bars, and lip balms in this 52 page book. The book discusses infusing, the properties of herbs, essential oils, base (carrier) oils and butters. Also gives some great sources for these items.

From gardener's salve to a bug repellant solid bar, from drawing salve to hair pomade - you'll find them all here.

$7.95 Each

BK0039

Be your beautiful best, inside and out with this 377 page book that contain 175 homemade herbal formulas for glowing skin & a vibrant self.

Discover the joy and fun of crafting your own personalized body care products using herbs and other natural ingredients that nourish, pamper, cleanse, and protect the skin without using irritating or harmful chemicals.

In just minutes, you can whip up dozens of organic treatments that will make your face radiant, your skin glow, your hair shine, and your hands and nails beautiful. From head to toe, you’ll find the perfect treatment for every part of our body, whether you’re looking for a relaxing bath blend, a stimulating facial mask, a natural bug repellent, a refreshing mouthwash, or a sensual body cream.

$18.50 Each

BK0037

Enter the world of aromatherapy creams and lotions with Donna Marie, and learn how easy it is to craft natural skin-care products that rival those found at the most exclusive department stores and salons.

Free yourself from synthetic substances, experience the pleasure of homemade lotions, and preserve and protect your skin. Donna Maria reveals her secret formulas for creating light, nourishing creams that will revitalize your skin and promote a healthier, younger-looking complexion from head to toe.

$16.50 Each

BK0036

The Smart and Simple Guide to Making Lovely Milk Soap From Cow Milk, Goat Milk, Buttermilk, Cream, Coconut Milk, or Any Other Animal or Plant Milk.

Do you love the feel of milk soaps but shy away from the cost? Are you looking for a special kind of gift you can make yourself? Or do you already make soap and want to try something new?

Anne L. Watson’s Smart Soapmaking was the first book based on modern techniques that eliminate the drudgery and guesswork from home soapmaking. Now, by popular demand, she continues her soapmaking revolution with the first practical, comprehensive book on making milk soap.

Experience the rich, soothing, luxurious feel of milk soap you’ve made yourself. Your skin will thank you for it.

$12.50 Each

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BK0032

By C. Kaila Westerman

Soapmaking has never been this easy! The revolutionary melt-and-mold method begins with a meltable glycerin base; crafters can create stunning specialty soaps in minutes, with no lye and no waiting. Recipes that show you how to use color, fragrance, and other desired additives offer great creative possibilities for manipulating light, form, and color. This book includes stunning color photos and simple step-by-step instructions for 30 different techniques.

$13.95 Each

BK0033

By Catherine Failor

With common ingredients and equipment, readers can craft stunning transparent soaps. Step-by-step photographs offer a full exploration of this special technique, ingredients, and the basics for making transparent bars. This book includes recipes and tips for creating unique and beautiful M&P masterpieces.

$13.95 Each

BK0034

This book explains, in plain English, how to follow product labeling rules and regulations from:

	Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act
	Fair Product and Labeling Act
	Uniform Weights & Measures Law
	Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulations
	State Laws

In addition, the appendixes include cosmetic color additives and their approved uses, INCI names for common ingredients, restricted and prohibited ingredients and metric conversion charts.

Whether you're an old hand or a newcomer to the business of soap and cosmetics, you'll find the information presented here to be clear and easy to understand, and Soap & Cosmetic Labeling an excellent guide through the maze of labeling regulations.

$23.95 Each

BK0030

Ever want to know how to make delicious vinegars using the herbs you're growing - or the ones showing up at the produce departments in the grocery store? Once you've made them, what can you do with them? Well! We've got some answers and some luscious recipes to try. Our readers and friends have really come through with some delightful new recipes. This little book is jammed with the expertise of over 20 fabulous cooks and herbalists. The novice will find instruction and the expert will find inspiration.

$4.95 Each

BK0022

Yes, you can build your own profitable business that gives you the freedom to express your creativity and drive as well as social and economic responsibility. In Creating an Herbal Body care Business, Author Sandy Maine shares her experience and philosophy of building a successful company, as well as stories from other business owners who work with their hands and minds to enrich the health and well-being of others.

$14.95 Each

BK0013

If you've ever sold anything, then you've done some marketing, although you may not have realized it at the time. This book is written especially for people who make the products they sell.

Whether you are trying to sell your paintings at local art shows, or trying to turn your candle or soap making into a full time career, here are some basic, easy to follow suggestions for getting your marketing plan off the ground.

Creative mind need creative ways to sell. Trade in those boring, unimaginative marketing plans for a fresh, new approach to getting you and your handmade products noticed.

The Author, Scott Blackson is owner and CEO of The Soap Fairy, Inc. Scott started making handcrafted soaps in his kitchen in 1996, and has since turned an enjoyable hobby into a full-time business employing 6 people, and selling his handmade products throughout the United States and around the world.

$9.95 Each

BK0023

40 pages (plus cover) crammed with how to information for getting herbs into your hot/cold process soaps. We talk about which herbs will add color, texture, or medicinal properties.

$4.95 Each

BK0017

Ah, such bliss! Fragrant confections for the bath sent from all over the continent. Bath brew, cold process soap, Bridal Wedding Tea Bath, Bath Truffles, and a Honey Butter Hand Mask to name just a few of the 32 wonderful recipes from 17 different herb businesses and shops.

$4.95 Each

BK0018

Ever wonder how to add magic and whimsy to your garden? Want to make it a place where the fairies play? Do you want to create picnics and parties where there is a touch of mystery? This little gem of a book will give you plenty of ideas to ponder. You'll know which flowers to plant, how to keep the wee folk safe and cozy once they've settled into the garden, and some stories for the young ... and the not so young!

$4.95 Each

BK0019

Tons of wonderful potpourris from 16 different sources. We also have some sachets, simmers, and pillows. How does Autumn Aria sound? Sinus Sniffing jars, smelly jellies, Three King's Layered Potpourri, wax pomanders, Friendship Potpourri, and Ancient Echoes are all in there, along with Citrus pomanders and House Blessing potpourri. Many others just as wonderful!

$4.95 Each

BK0020

We've gathered recipes from all over and you'll be blending teas in no time at all. 17 herb shops and businesses send a couple of their favorites. Stress busters, Sweet Tea, Lavender Mint, Honey bush and Lemon Myrtle... Many wonderful tisanes to try.

$4.95 Each

BK0021

There is delicious food all around us, food that we've just stopped noticing. This book is crammed with unique and tasty recipes to help a beginner get started or expand a old forager's repertoire. We stopped counting the recipes when we hit 80, and they were submitted by well over 30 contributors. While there are pictures, this is not a field guide. It IS a great cookbook. Spiral bound, b&w with color cover.

A note from Ron at Willow Way; just thumbing through this book and reading some of the interesting tidbits and stories is fun but believe me, as soon as Spring gets here, we will be out picking what some call weeds, and trying out some of these recipes.

$8.95 Each

BK0024

by Susan Miller Cavitch

This is an inspiring exploration of the goodness of chemical and additive-free soap.

The author takes the mystery out of soapmaking, sharing her formulas that are good for your skin and free of synthetic additives. Her book gives you clear directions and illustrations to guide you step-by –step through the entire process. Find recipes for old favorites like oatmeal/honey and avocado soaps to Susan’s unique recipes for goat milk, borage and even a tropical shampoo bar. It also has profiles and tips from professional soapmakers. 109 pages.

$13.95 Each

BK0025

by Catherine Failor

Using a simple double-boiler technique, readers will make elegant and soothing liquid soaps. Dozens of recipes using oils, herbs and other natural ingredients to create hand soaps, shower gels, bubble baths, conditioning shampoos and even baby and pet shampoos.

Learn how to blend oils, additives, color and scent to develop one-of-a-kind liquid soaps.

The author, Catherine Failor, has been making soap for more than 20 years, 144 pages, full-color photographs throughout.

$13.95 Each

by Nancy Booth

Discover Your Signature Scent and Craft Truly Personal Perfumes at Home!

Take the quick “personal scent profile” quiz in the book to pinpoint your fragrance preferences, and then create perfumes, splashes and colognes that are uniquely you!

Professional Perfumer and Teacher, Nancy Booth, provides step-by-step, illustrated instructions for making personal blends – and creating your favorite perfumes – using herbs, essential oils, fragrance oils, and alcohol. Additionally, learn how to make fragrant mixtures for the home, including potpourris and burning perfumes, how to care for, store and apply your homemade fragrances. Create customized perfume blends and replicate your favorite commercial perfumes at a fraction of their retail price.

$13.95 Each

by Susan Miller Cavitch

Learn basic soapmaking instruction and specialty techniques like marbling, layering and making liquid and transparent soaps. Over 40 specialty soaps – from exquisite stained-glass, marbled and layered soaps to masseuse bars, laundry and liquid soaps. Clear, step-by-step instructions by a Master Soapmaker, Susan Miller Cavitch leads you through every step of the soapmaking process and teaches you how to craft exotic and practical soaps in your home, blend and use essential oils and natural colorants, design multi-colored, marbled and imprinted soaps, understand the chemistry of soapmaking and create your own personal bars; plus tips on how to get started selling soaps.

$17.49 Each

by Sylla Sheppard-Hanger, Founder/Director of the Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy in Tampa, Florida.

This is a Fantastic Book and a “Must Have” for anyone who uses Essential Oils in their body care products! It is a Complete Reference book of Aromatic Plant Extracts, Index of Biological activities of Phytochemicals, Clinical Index and Taxonomical Index.

There is a lot of confusion in the world about essential oils and their healing properties. The Aromatherapy Practitioner Reference Manual is the result of many combined years of research and practical experience and clarifies about 350 of the most commonly offered essential oils (and absolutes) in today's marketplace.

"This book allows a practitioner to look up a problematic indication, understand the required bio-chemicals necessary to effect treatment, and find the essential oils for use. Included are over 340 botanical species with all known common names, their commercial availability, their predominant bio-chemical classes, as well as predominant bio-chemicals inherent therein. Anyone could easily start with the essential oil name, and find out what particular treatments could be effected with the information provided. In the Chart, one could immediately find the traditional uses and actions, the purposes and methods of delivery applications, toxicity and contra-indications, along with their traditional uses in perfumery. Also, morphologic and character types are included, as well as all relevant esoteric relations. Although there may be criticism from the scientific community that esoteric uses have been included, the authors feel that to truly treat in a holistic manner, this information needed to be included."

Complete set of two volumes, 575 pages, Soft Cover 8 1/2" x 11, Spiral ring bound for opening flat.

After a Forward discussing aromatherapy as practiced today, there are sections on the following:

	Delivery Methods: 24 formulation entries, internal, external, discussion on skin absorption.
	Carriers & Additives: 33 entries, including vegetal oils, tinctures, infusions; also clays & algae.
	Safety Considerations: safety data with references.
	Common Name Index: search by common name and include the following indexes Phytochemical Index: over 600 entries; chemical constituents, with their known biological activity, toxicology and essential oil (and aqueous solution) sources. Clinical Index: over 400 entries lists all biological terms or indications (e.g. anti-viral, migraine), definitions and plant sources. Following the clinical uses, the Esoteric uses are cross-referenced in the Mental/Emotional/Psychic & Magical Index, Chakra and Ayruvedic correlations. Taxonomic Index: is included for cross-references of over 76 Botanical Families of essential oil producing plants.
	Includes glossary, a selected bibliography, authors biography and a registration card.

The Aromatherapy Chart is a quick overview of 350 essential oils in botanical order and includes:

	Common names, plant part, botanical family, country of origin, extraction method, product form, & availability
	Biochemistry class & active constituents
	Traditional and Esoteric uses clarified with notations such as: documented action - no evidence found - internal use - herbal extract - medical diagnosis required
	Body systems activity of oil in modern aromatic medicinal usage: integumentary - respiratory - muscular/skeletal - cardiovascular/lymphatic - immune - digestive - endorcrine - genito-urinary/reproductive - nervous (brain/mind)
	Safety data toxicity, irritation, sensitivity, phototoxicity, allergies; cross-reactions and contra-indications; no formal testing

$124.00 Each Includes Both Volumes (Two Volumes)