Soapmaking 101 (Teacher Edition): Beginning Cold Process Soapmaking - Paperback

by Kerri Mixon (Author)

Open a soapmaking school and teach students to make soap effectively and safely with Soapmaking Studio Class Workbooks. Each text is available in a full-color teacher edition with answers and a matching student edition. These workbooks make it easy to start soapmaking classes or to improve existing soapmaking lessons. Used for years, this trusted Soapmaking 101 workbook includes soapmaking safety, creating a soap recipe to fit a mold, understanding oil specification sheets and saponification values, calculating lye quantities without using a "lye calculator," and formulating the soap recipe with the correct ingredient proportions necessary to complete the saponification reaction in the mold. When teaching the formulas and methods in the Soapmaking 101 workbook, free sodium hydroxide is not present when the cold process soap is removed from the soap mold.

Author Biography

Kerri Mixon is a 16th generation soapmaker and the owner of multiple soap-related businesses. Her articles on soapmaking have appeared in numerous trade publications. A seasoned instructor, she has taught soapmaking classes to students and live audiences across the United States. Master soapmaker Kerri Mixon's passion for soapmaking is obviously contagious; several graduates of her soapmaking classes now run their own successful soap, body care, and cosmetics businesses.