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title: Soap Making
description: Soap making is the chemical process of combining fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap. Learners will understand the saponification process, safety measures for handling lye, oil formulation, scenting, coloring, and both cold-process and hot-process techniques.
category: trades-crafts
subcategory: specialty-crafts
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/soap-making
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# Soap Making

Soap making is the chemical process of combining fats or oils with an alkali to produce soap. Learners will understand the saponification process, safety measures for handling lye, oil formulation, scenting, coloring, and both cold-process and hot-process techniques.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Modern Soapmaking

Technical articles and tutorials on cold-process soapmaking: lye solutions and water discounts, superfatting, pH testing, colorants, and recipe formulation, alongside business guidance for small makers. Readers finish able to reason about why a given formula behaves as it does.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.modernsoapmaking.com

**Tags:** soap-making, cold-process-soap, saponification, lye-safety, recipe-formulation

### 2. soapqueen.com

Soap Queen is Bramble Berry's comprehensive soapmaking resource with step-by-step tutorials, recipes, videos, and product reviews for melt-and-pour and cold-process soaps, plus tips and troubleshooting for DIY soap makers.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://soapqueen.com

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, specialty-crafts

### 3. soapmakingforum.com

Soap Making Forum is a community site for soap makers to share recipes, techniques, and troubleshooting tips, with discussions, tutorials, and user-submitted resources on formulas, safety, scents, and equipment.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://soapmakingforum.com

**Tags:** websites, trades-crafts, specialty-crafts

## Books

### 1. The Complete Photo Guide to Soap Making

**Author:** David Fisher

Photographed walkthroughs of melt-and-pour, hand-milling, cold-process and hot-process soapmaking, with safety, equipment, recipes, scrubs and bath bombs, and a section on formulating your own. After working through it you can run a full batch unsupervised.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1589239431?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, trades-crafts, specialty-crafts

### 2. Soap Making for Beginners

**Author:** Kelly Cable

Cold-process method taught from scratch using plant oils, herbs, spices and essential oils rather than synthetic fragrance or colour, with recipes and troubleshooting. Finish it able to mix lye safely and adapt a recipe to available oils.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939754038?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, trades-crafts, specialty-crafts

### 3. Natural Soap Making

**Author:** Elizabeth Letcavage and Melissa Harden

Short illustrated guide to cold-process soap using only natural fragrances, colorants and texture additives, covering oil properties, botanical additives, and twelve recipes with layers, swirls, nuggets and confetti. Readers can reproduce decorative effects without synthetic ingredients.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0811710726?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, trades-crafts, specialty-crafts

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