Making Candles and Soaps for Dummies

Book Description
Make floating candles, herbal soaps, and even a home spa

Discover the secrets of color, shape, and scent the fun and easy way®

Whether you're a beginner or seasoned craftperson, this fun book offers everything you need to make beautiful, professional-looking candles and soaps at home. You get practical tips on dyeing and scenting wax, using unusual molds, adding embellishments to candles, working with soap ingredients, and even turning your hobby into a business!

Discover How To: Stock a safe & efficient work area Work with all types of wax Add color and scent to your projects Make melt-and-pour soaps Turn a hobby into a business


About the Author
Kelly Ewing is a writer and editor who lives in the wonderful community of Fishers, Indiana, with her husband Mark, her daughter Katie, her son Carter, and furry canine friend Cheyenne. She has coauthored several books, including The Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, PCs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, and Direct Mail For Dummies. She has ghostwritten several books and edited more than 75 books on a variety of topics. She also writes articles on sports, travel, and human interest for several newspapers. In her spare time — when she can find it! — she enjoys spending time with her kids, reading, walking, writing, scrapbooking, cooking, and doing crafts.


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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 .


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