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The Handmade Soap Book
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Good Source of Information but Caution on Recipes

Good for inspiration, but...

maybe for beginner, but not so great for experienced soapmak

Worth Every Penny!

Beautiful and Inspiring, with Caution

The Handmade Soap Book
Melinda Coss
Manufacturer: Storey Publishing, LLC
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Binding: Hardcover

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Essentially Soap

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Book Description

Readers can easily craft a wide variety of unique bath products from one basic recipe using the easy, step-by-step instructions.

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Good Source of Information but Caution on Recipes.......2003-01-06

I like the way the book is organized and written, and the photos are inspiring. The writer does a good job of organizing the topics. I found the lists of additives, essential oils, and fillers especially interesting and informative, and I return to this section often. However, after plugging in a few of her recipes in a lye calculator, I was disappointed in the lye heavy recipes. I felt this was very lazy editing and a potential danger to new soap makers who do not know how to design their own recipes. I checked some of her sap values and they are correct, but, out of a sampling of 5 recipes, 2 recipes are lye heavy: "Grapefruit Slice" is -1.6% lye heavy; "Fresh as a Cucumber" is also -8% lye heavy. However, "Blackberry Smoothy", "Peach Melba", and "Strawberry Soap" are all okay. If you already know how to design your own recipes, this is a good book for inspiration.

Good for inspiration, but..........2002-09-19

I am a beginner soap maker, and found the recipes and pictures good for inspiration. Also, the sequence of pictures for a basic recipe from heating stage to the trace stage are useful. However, the book is not useful for creating your own recipes. While the book has a saponification table and a description of how to calculate amount of lye to use, it does not tell you how much liquid to use in a new recipe.

maybe for beginner, but not so great for experienced soapmak.......2002-01-10

I returned this book. As an experienced soapmaker, I found that this book just repeated a lot of the same information from other books I have read. There are better books out here and this one is pretty mediocre. I would recommend "Essentially Soap" over this book.

Worth Every Penny!.......2001-11-25

As a professional soapmaker I own just about every soapmaking book published. "The Handmade Soap Book" by Melinda Coss is my favorite and I highly recommend it. The photographs by Emma Peios are sensual and entice you to want to make each and every soap in the book. The recipes are for small batches which works well while you are just learning and when you've found your favorites you can double or triple the recipes. The recipes are well written and pretty much fail-proof. Coss is not a soap snob or purist, rather she uses color freely to produce delightful results. Coss features both vegetable soap and animal-based materials for those who would like to experiment and choose for themselves rather than have the decision made for them which is done in many soapmaking books. Yes, the book is a bit pricey but it is hardcover so it is durable, the photographs are inspirational and the recipes make "The Handmade Soap Book" worth every penny.

Beautiful and Inspiring, with Caution.......2001-11-24

This book is an inspiring look at handmade soap recipes. The photographs are helpful as well as beautiful, and there are some good photos of the soapmaking process. Readers should always be aware that every soap recipe should be run through a lye calculator before use, and this book is no exception. Typos do happen, and a few of these recipes are lye-heavy. The descriptions of each recipe are also not very informative, but rest assured that every recipe will create luxurious handcrafted soap. The photos will also inspire the reader to create their own recipes and experiment with color and fragrance options.

Handmade Soap: Recipes For Crafting Soap At Home ( Country Living)

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Good cold process soap reference
Disapointing experience making the goats milk soap
Disapointing experience making the goats milk soap
These soaps are extraordinary!
Loved it!

Handmade Soap: Recipes For Crafting Soap At Home ( Country Living)
Mike Hulbert
Manufacturer: Hearst Books
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Book Description

There are really just two ways to make soap -- the cold process and glycerin -- but there are literally thousands of ways to make that soap delightful. Beautifully colored and shaped soap is a joy to use; grainy soap is studded with sand or poppyseeds in an amazingly effective hand cleaner; and pure translucent glycerin soap is as gentle as it is clear.

Shaping, coloring and mixing in additives are all covered in details. Soap, cut or molded into bars, squares, balls, domed bars, and round, is a joy to behold. Precious handmade soap can be personalized as gifts for the bride, for a newborn, or for a birthday by embossing a monogram onto the bar. Colors from subtle to pulsating add another dimension. Ingredients such as violet petals or coffee grounds create soaps that soothe and scrub. Sentimental soap made with May's lavender blooms is so romantic in November; pine scented soaps warm the month of December.

Handmade soap is a gift that says comfort, relaxation, and a treat for the senses -- for oneself or for a friend.

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Good cold process soap reference.......2006-11-03

This book is a pretty good reference for a beginner soap maker. It covers three soap-making processes: cold process, hand (or French) milling (a.k.a. rebatching), and melt and pour.

This book has:

1. Sufficient detail for me, a complete novice, to have made a successful batch of cold process soap my first time. (I was somewhat supplemented by internet searches of soap making.)
2. A helpful, though not complete, troubleshooting section for cold-process soap.
3. Wonderfully scented recipes!
4. Blurbs about the properties of various essential oils, exfoliants, and other additives. These are not comprehensive, but are sufficient to get you started.
5. A section on the properties of various oils.
6. Seven basic (no additives) cold-process recipes that can be used with handmilling, along with basic properties of each.
7. Alot of cold-process recipes, along with some hand-milling recipes and ideas.
8. Ideas and recipes for herb-infused oils, making your own extracts, bath oils, bath teas, shampoo, shower gel, hair rinses, laundry and dishwashing soap.

It LACKS:

1. Hand-milling information. I'm having alot of trouble with it and can't find any answers! It would be great to have a troubleshooting section for handmilled soap.
2. Melt-and-pour information. If you need ideas for making melt-and-pour soap, how to embed objects, how to layer, etc., this is not the book to turn to.
3. A guide for developing your own soap recipes -- how to calculate lye/fats ratios, etc. And I wish the section on the properties of oils was a bit more extensive.
4. Recipes for lotions, body butters, bath salts and bath fizzies, in this book.

Another thing I did not like about the book is that it has some unrealistic expectations about one's soap-making budget. I'd've loved to see one (or a few) "grocery store" recipes, that can be made from oils one can easily find in any grocery store.

So, in short, this book would be a useful addition to a soap-making library, but it should probably not be your only reference.

Disapointing experience making the goats milk soap.......2003-09-28

Im a novice soap maker, but very good at following directions. However, when I attempted the goats milk soap (basic recipe 5) it was a disaster! The directions caution you about adding the lye to the goats milk...first it will be cloudy, then tan and you need to watch it carefully so you add to the oils before it turns orange. Well, my milk was tepid as the directions state but as I slowly added the lye, the mixture turned orange immediately...no cloudy stage and no tan stage! I poured it into the oils anyway following their instruction all the way..and the whole mess seperated as soon as it was poured into the mold...a complete waste.
Stubborn as I am, I tried the recipe on page 64, "Goats Milk and YLang Ylang", hoping to try again and this time it turned yellow immediatly as I added the lye. Again, I poured it anyway, no separation occured and the soap seems fine, but will have an expert friend look at it just to be safe.
The problem seems to be that the book does not tell you that goats milk needs to be completely or partially frozen to avoid burning it when the lye is added.
I will say it is a beautiful book, and will try the other recipes with hopes of better success.

Disapointing experience making the goats milk soap.......2003-09-28

These soaps are extraordinary!.......2003-01-24

Out of all the "popular" soap books, this was one of the first I bought and the one I use the most! I have made most of the recipes in this book and haven't had a failed batch yet, either hand stirred or with a stick blender. I was a beginner and now everyone wants my soaps because they are mild & natural, smell so "real" and are simply wonderful. Over the years I have become more sensitive to chemicals and "fake" smells. I have solved that problem by making and using these natural soaps for myself and my family.

As with any new endevor, I researched as much as I could, and I run ALL recipes through a lye calculator which can be found for free on the web. I personally like the amount of essential oils used because you can still smell them after the soap has cured.

If you want a soapmaking book, written by an awesome soapmaker, and don't want to spend hours being put to sleep by scientific chemical equations, then get this book and prepare to change your life forever!

Loved it!.......2002-03-07

This is one of my favorite soap making books! The recipes are great! Although I've never done any of the hand milled ones, since I'd had trouble doing that with other recipes. The recipes make great hard bars of soap! Highly recommended!

El Libro del Jabon Artesanal / The Handmade Soap Book

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El Libro del Jabon Artesanal / The Handmade Soap Book
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En un mundo lleno de contaminación y productos químicos como el que vivimos, este libro les enseñará cómo crear sus propios jabones y artículos de tocador para el baño, utilizando tan sólo ingredientes naturales y materiales poco especializados. Las excelentes fotografías y las sencillas recetas les animarán a empezar inmediatamente. · Cree un jabón que se adapte a su propio tipo de piel · Elija sus ingredientes de entre una variada gama sumamente apetecibles, entre ellos melocotón, pepino, ylag-ylang, canela, piña, pipermín, camomila, lavanda, sándalo, chocolate, leche de cabra y muchos más. · Incluye recetas para pastillas de champú, lociones corporales, aceites de baño y jabones espumosos · Resuelva sus problemas a la hora de hacer regalos con jabones para adultos y niños, hombres y mujeres · Además incluye ideas geniales para envolver y presentar los jabones elaborados

The Handmade Candle Book (Handmade Series)

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Excellent rep. of artistic quality in handmaking paper.

The Handmade Candle Book (Handmade Series)
Alison Jenkins
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From tools to wicks and types of wax, here’s all the information you’ll need to make original candles in a range of colors, shapes, and textures. More than 20 unique projects offer something for every taste, from simple Green Apple candles with the wick as a stem to a distinctive and artistic Rothko-esque rectangle with muted layers of color. No matter what your skill level, you’ll be able to fill your home with candlelight as you enjoy an inspirational new craft.

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Excellent rep. of artistic quality in handmaking paper........1999-09-23

Book defines clearly how to make paper and what constitutes quality ingredients in doing so. Author has excellent summaries of each step for producing original handmade paper. Also, the book provides ideas/recipes for adding your own artistic signature to each sheet of paper.

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Melinda Coss
Manufacturer: NEW HOLLAND PUBLISHE
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This is a book about women's history and biography and to radical history, particularly to our understanding of family and gender relations and female self-understanding of women radicals.

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A worthy effort as biography and history apart from the case.......2005-12-07

Ilene Philipson is a pyschologist and a practicing therapist. This is the strength, and sometimes the weakness, of this book. Her insight is into the personality and upbringing up of Ethel Rosenberg. The book gives a great picture of one of millions of working class youth of the 1930s who grew up to be fighters for unions and opponents of capitalism.

Ethel Rosenberg grew up amid the massive poverty and oppression of the Jewish Lower East Side in New York in the beginning of this century. She grew up in an environment in which families with electric lights, hot water, and their own bathroom were considered privileged. Ethel had none of those things until after she was married, her husband got an engineering job in WWII, and they got their own place. Philipson quotes the memory of a school friend of Ethel Rosenberg who explans that as teens Ethel and her friends were afraid to go into the cheap and simple cafes in the neighborhood because that they didn't know how to use a full set of silverware.

Ethel Rosenberg also grew up in the oppressive atmosphere of a traditional family, where no future was expected for the girls except work, marriage and work, and work and children, while her brothers were doted on, no matter what. She grew up in a family where the not always successful struggle for financial survival overwhelmed any concerns for a bigger world of politics, culture, or education.

From early childhood Ethel Rosenberg'sr mind and heart struggled for a bigger world in her studies at school and in her growth into a capable amateur actress and a great singer. She received no encouragement from her family. Instead, her activities in music and theater and her working class activism were mocked, especially by her mother and older brothers.

Despite Ethel Rosenberg's excellent academic record and her great singing and her acting (her high school year book predicted that Ethel would be come a Broadway star), there was no thought of Ethel doing anything but going to work for a low-wage job when she left high school. There was only derision at home for her attempts to save money and devote time for music lessons, acting groups, and purchasing an old piano.

It was on Ethel's first job that she was swept up into one CIO organizing campaign and another. The singing lessons she received and her participation in amateur acting troupes and a large choir that regularly sang at Carneige Hall were replaced by Ethel singing on picket lines, at union rallies, and at political meetings. She blossomed into a fighter for her class and her kind. Unfortunately, like so many of her generation, she could see no further than the ruinous and reformist politics of the stalinized American Communist Party, but that is another story.

Yet, this book provides an excellent view to the inspiring and fighting spirit that workers of the time had. It is particularly interesting to read of the organizing campaigns among "white-collar" workers in stores and distribution centers and among technical and professional workers that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg joined in the 1930s and 1940s.

Philipson does a good job at show the type of stress Ethel felt as a wartime and post war house wife, totally devoted to her children, and perhaps unnevered and overwhelmed by the difficulties her first son Michael presented. She even took college level child pyschology courses to try to learn to be a better mother.

In these later days and in talking about the trial and imprisonment, Philipson centers her work on the emotional and pyschological stress that Ethel went through. Her younger brother David Greenglass and his wife had succumbed to Government threats. They invented lies about Ethel and her husband as the FBI dictated to save their skins. Her own mother and her brothers were pressuring her until the last days of her life, to "confess." The wanted her to make up a story that would "save" herself, even if she would have to lie, implicate her husband and many others.

It is here that Philipson shows this is the echo of the conflict in her family she faces as a youth, between the narrow world of personal greed, and a bigger world that Ethel came to live in. At the same time, Philipson who takes no position on the case itself, shows that Ethel was a human being, not the plaster saint some have made her out to be, who felt pain and sorrow, depression and fear, during her imprisonment. Among other women at the Womens House of Detention Ethel became popular, her songs being requested every night by other women. Yet, alone, the only woman in Sing Sing's "death house," she succumbed to fear and depression at times.

Philipson wrote this book before the recent disclosures of government tapes of Soviet dispatches from the period and the testament of a former KGB agent who claims he worked with Julius Rosenberg. Apparently, this book was written even before Robert and Michael Meeropol, Ethel's sons, gained Freedom of Information Act files on their parent's case.

Even these sources reveal the government understood that Ethel Rosenberg had absolutely nothing to do with whatever Julius Rosenberg did or did not do. The government was simply using her prosecution to put pressure on her and her husband to confess. The government knew they were murdering an innocent woman when they electrocuted Ethel Rosenberg.

I want to underline that this book is most interesting as the personal story of a working class woman from the lower east side, telling her story without romance or sentimentality, giving a picture of the kind of real stress and trauma real family life inflicts on us. It would be a great read and a precious book even if Ethel had never been involved in a cause celebre.

What Ethel was guilty of is wanting to fight for more for working people and believing that her own fate was tied up with that struggle, and that giving her life was better than lying for the FBI and the rest of the US government. When a new wave of young working class fighters rises up to fight the persistant government and big business attacks on our jobs, our benefits, social programs, to fight the permanent war drive and the attacks on civil liberties, they should look to the example of Ethel Rosenberg to guide them.

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Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation

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David Stern , Michael A. Banks , and Rusty McClure
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Set in the vibrant Industrial Age and filigreed with family drama and epic ambition, Crosley chronicles one of the great untold tales of the twentieth century. Born in the late 1800s into a humble world of dirt roads and telegraphs, Powel and Lewis Crosley were opposites in many ways but shared drive, talent, and an unerring knack for knowing what Americans wanted. Their pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them both wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds. But as their fortunes grew, so did Powel’s massive ego, which demanded he own eight mansions and seven yachts at the height of the Great Depression. Rich with detailed reminiscences from surviving family members, Crosley is both a powerful saga of a heady time in American history and an intimate tale of two brilliant brothers navigating triumph and tragedy.

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a msut read for radio fans.......2007-08-27

Great read for a radio fan or anyone interested in early 20th century business moguls.

The Crosley Empire.......2007-08-23

I bought this book for my brother who owned a Crosley years ago, but I read it before I gave it to him. Great book! One of the best I have read in a long time.

It was a great history lesson and you do not have to be a Crosley buff to enjoy it.

Would highly recommend.

Richard Flory

Crosley: Two Brothers and a Business Empire That Transformed the Nation.......2007-08-11

The person for whom I purchased the book absolutely loves it!! It's the story, the pictures and presentation that just makes reading it so enjoyable. I'm very glad that I made this purchase.

Industrial pioneers.......2007-07-23

I'm sitting in a home full of computers, MP3 players, dvd recorders and players, a satellite TV box, and scores of electric appliances that are smarter than I am. Reading of a time when consumer electronics were unknown, and the primary electric appliance was a lightbulb, is like looking into the dark ages. Well, not quite. But you know what I mean.

The Crosley name is one that I've heard around my home throughout my life, but with the exception of a Crosley radio on a shelf, my knowledge of the company or the men that founded the firm was fuzzy at best. The authors have done an outstanding job at fleshing out Powel and Lewis Crosley and the world they lived in and revolutionized.

Many a novel I've read non-stop, but this is the first biography that I've done an "all-nighter" with.

The authors had no axe to grind, the times were well fleshed out, and one's faith in the ability of someone to think it up and do it, is reaffirmed. It was chock full of interesting information and facts, and I found myself checking Google satellite maps for locations mentioned in the book (Yes, the Arlington St. location still exisits and the satellite pic catches the executive tower, one-time home of WLW).

There is some bumpy writing, as noted in a few other reviews. I blame not the authors, but the editor. The boys really like their cliches. Lawyers are always "Sharpening their pencils," people come and go "Exit Stage right/left, Enter stage right/left;" and so many variations of "Masses not the classes" permeated the text, I wondered if they had some sort of Bolshevik thing going on.

That aside, this guy will be giving several copies of this book for Christmas this year - and I can't think of a better testimonial to the book.

Crosley.......2007-05-31

This was one of the most intersting biog. I have read in a long time. It is hard to believe the brothers could jam that much into just one lifetime and then it was all gone. I heartly recommend this book if you have an interest in one of our most exciting periods.

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Development of fraction specific reference doses (RFDs) and reference concentrations (RFCs) for total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) (Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group series)

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The overlying theme to this series is the importance of exposure potential when defining human health risk. The fate and transport of a chemical or mixture defines the exposure route, and in conjunction with receptor properties, concentrations at receptors. If fate and transport is not considered, unrealistic human health risks could be calculated, resulting in misinformed decisions about site clean-up and regulatory guidance. We hope you find these documents useful in your efforts to evaluate and determine acceptable risk-based criteria at petroleum sites. To complete the risk-based approach, the Working Group has also selected toxicity criteria (e.g., Reference Doses) for each of the defined fate and transport fractions. The evaluation of the toxicology research database and rationale behind the toxicity criteria selected is described in detail in Volume 4. The group selected the American Society for Testing and Materials' (ASTM) Risk Based Corrective Action (RBCA) framework as an example of how these elements can be used to calculate risk-based screening levels driven by non-cancer human health risk for petroleum contaminated sites.

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Louisiana RFD Recipes
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RFD
Charles Allen Smart
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“This book,” the author tells us in his preface, “is intended to be a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930s.” RFD is a faithful portrait of farm life as thousands of men and women experienced it from one end of the country to the other and from pioneering times to the present century. Originally published in 1938 to enthusiastic reviews and commercial success, RFD is the story of one couple’s trials with leaving the comforts of city life for a chance to get back to the land. Charles Allen Smart was a New York novelist and prep-school teacher when he inherited his aunt’s farm in Chillicothe, Ohio. He and his wife moved into a rustic stone farmhouse, determined to combine their lives as working farmers with their active intellectual life, love of art, and political progressivism. They upset some in their small town by staging parts of Clifford Odets’s play Waiting for Lefty, but they won respect for their hard work and honest dealings. Smart conveys the feel of their lives at a time when living in the country was a meaningful distinction in America. He also writes movingly of his concerns regarding America’s materialism, the rise of industrial agriculture, burgeoning chain stores, and frayed communities. Told with sensitivity, gusto, and a fierce honesty, RFD became a classic because embedded in its charms as a first-rate farm memoir is the universal story of one couple’s earnest, joyful attempt to live meaningful lives. Ohio University Press is especially pleased to reissue this midwestern classic with a new foreword by noted farm writer Gene Logsdon.

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RFD
Charles Allen Smart
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