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Candle and Soap Making at Home

Hybrid Learning Solutions · e-book

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About this book

A practical, South African guide to making safe, good-quality candles and soap at home, for gifts, a hobby or a side income. Twelve chapters follow a school administrator in Benoni who makes container candles for her market stall, a bus driver in Gqeberha who makes cold-process soap in his garage, and the retired science teacher who runs their classes: a safe workspace, equipment and what to do in a fire, a burn or a splash; waxes, wicks and fragrance, and how much wax a jar holds; container candles step by step; pillars, tealights and rolled beeswax candles; the burn test and the safety warnings every candle needs; how soap works and how to handle lye safely; melt-and-pour soap with no lye at all; cold-process recipes and calculating the lye by hand, checked a second way; making, cutting and curing cold-process soap; colour, scent and design; labels, ingredient lists and the claims you must never make; and costing, pricing and selling at markets and online. 30 diagrams and photographs, worked examples, practice exercises with answers, a temperature chart, a burn-test record, a lye calculation worksheet, starter recipes, batch and costing sheets, label templates, troubleshooting tables, a glossary, where to get help, and 144 Exam prep questions. A Skills Series title. Lecturers: a free Facilitator Guide (session plans built around a maker's file, practical safety rules, teaching notes and every answer) is available to colleges registered with HybridE. To register your college, contact Thandeka on 073 431 6763.

What is inside

  1. Chapter 1: Getting Started Safely
  2. Chapter 2: Waxes, Wicks and Fragrance
  3. Chapter 3: Making Container Candles
  4. Chapter 4: Pillars, Tealights and Moulded Candles
  5. Chapter 5: Testing and Candle Safety
  6. Chapter 6: How Soap Works, and Lye Safety
  7. Chapter 7: Melt-and-Pour Soap
  8. Chapter 8: Cold-Process Recipes and the Lye Calculation
  9. Chapter 9: Making, Cutting and Curing Cold-Process Soap
  10. Chapter 10: Colour, Scent and Design
  11. Chapter 11: Packaging, Labels and the Law
  12. Chapter 12: Selling and Pricing
  13. Appendix: Charts, Worksheets, Recipes, Templates, Glossary and Where to Get Help

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