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By Ellen Spector Platt
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The leaves, stems, buds, and flowers of lavender are valuable for a variety of uses. This revised and updated edition of the best-selling guidebook gives instructions for growing and harvesting the popular aromatic herb, with ideas for using it in the garden landscape, in crafts, and in recipes. Projects are included for making potpourris, wreaths, garlands, arrangements, and even lavender-spiced chicken, halibut, potato salad, madeleines, and bread. An added section on festivals and farms offers travel opportunities for those who want to experience lavender culture. A full list of sources completes this definitive book. |
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By Robert S. McDaniel
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Consumers are no longer satisfied with the industrial types of soap available at the grocery store. They want specialty soaps with just the right scent, emollients, and eye-appeal. They want to pamper themselves and their loved ones with personal soaps made to suit their own tastes and preferences. Now they can get that perfect custom-made soap by making it themselves. Drawing on years of experimentation and fine-tuning, author and chemist Dr. Robert McDaniel has developed simple instructions and recipes for making a wide variety of cold process soaps as well as melt and pour and rebatched soaps for the beginner. McDaniel instructs on how to work with fragrances, skin treatments, colors, and shapes, and discusses the aromatherapy benefits associated with many essential oils. -25 recipes for cold process soapmaking.
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By Tina Sams
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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. |
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By Jim Long
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A lavish book offering step-by-step instructions for creating herbal-scented pillows for custom-made dreams. |
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By Catherine Bardey
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With this book, it's easy to create soothing suds and a wide variety of perfumes, colognes and splashes that moisturize, revitalize and aromatize skin and hair. Following the simple step-by-step directions, readers can make all the body products of their dreams, from Buttermilk Oatmeal Soap and Tangerine Cocoa Bar to Lemon Lavender Shampoo. Each recipe also points out how readers can improvise and create their own special soaps and scents. A special section details the techniques of the world's most famous fragrance producers and traces perfume history. The book includes a resource directory, safety hints and ways to make your soaps more earth-friendly. |
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Book for the Kindle: How to Make Incense Guide
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By G. W. Septimus Piesse
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The Art Of Perfumery, And Method Of Obtaining The Odors Of Plants, With instructions for the manufacture of perfumes for the handkerchief, scented powders, odorous vinegars, dentifrices, pomatums, cosmetics, perfumed soap, etc. With an appendix on the colors of flowers, artificial fruit essences, etc. etc.
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By Casey Kellar
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In this practical guide to beauty and well-being, readers will learn how to make Mother Nature their Fairy Godmother! With remedies and toiletries made with natural, simple formulas and ingredients found in health food, drug, and grocery stores, people of all ages can learn how to pamper themselves. Casey Kellar, the founder and CEO of RainShadow Labs and RainCountry Naturals, is also the author of The Natural Beauty & Bath Book and Natural Cleaning for Your Home. - More than 75 simple formulas enhance well-being and produce spa-quality beauty results
- Learn to make lotions, toothpaste, bubble bath, massage oils, cough syrup, lip balm, perfume, and hair care with readily available ingredients
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By G.W. Septimus Piesse
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THE ART OF PERFUMERY,
AND METHOD OF OBTAINING THE ODORS OF PLANTS,
WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PERFUMES FOR THE
HANDKERCHIEF, SCENTED POWDERS, ODOROUS VINEGARS, DENTIFRICES,
POMATUMS, COSMETIQUES, PERFUMED SOAP, ETC.
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SECTION I.
INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY.
SECTION II.
Consumption of Perfumery—Methods of obtaining the Odors:—Expression, Distillation, Maceration,
Absorption
SECTION III.
Steam-Still—Macerating Pan—Ottos exhibited at the Crystal Palace of 1851—Simple Extracts:—Allspice, Almond, Artificial Otto of Almonds, Anise, Balm, Balsams, Bay, Bergamot, Benzoin, Caraway, Cascarilla,Cassia, Cassie, Cedar, Cedrat, Cinnamon, Citron, Citronella, Clove, Dill, Eglantine or Sweet Brier, Elder, Fennel, Flag, Geranium, Heliotrope, Honeysuckle, Hovenia, Jasmine, Jonquil, Laurel, Lavender..etc
SECTION IV.
ANIMAL PERFUMES.
Ambergris—Civet—Musk
SECTION V.
Smelling Salts:—Ammonia, Preston Salts, Inexhaustible Salts, Eau de Luce, Sal Volatile Acetic Acid and its Use in Perfumery.—Aromatic Vinegar, Henry's Vinegar, Vinaigre à la Rose, Four Thieves' Vinegar, Hygienic Vinegar, Violet Vinegar, Toilet Vinegar, Vinaigre de Cologne
SECTION VI.
BOUQUETS AND NOSEGAYS. Compound Odors:—The Alhambra Perfume—The Bosphorus Bouquet—Bouquet d'Amour—Bouquet des Fleurs du Val d'Andorre—Buckingham Palace Bouquet—Délices—The Court Nosegay—Eau de Chypre—The Empress Eugenie's Nosegay—Esterhazy—Ess Bouquet—Eau de Cologne. (French and English Spirit.) ...etc...
SECTION VIII.
PERFUMED SOAP.
Perfumed Soap—Ancient Origin of Soap—Early Records of the Soap Trade in England—Perfumers not Soap Makers—Remelting—Primary Soaps—Curd Soap—Oil Soap—Castile Soap—Marine Soap—Yellow Soap—Palm Soap—Excise Duty on Soap—Fig Soft Soap...etc...
SECTION IX.
EMULSINES.
Form Emulsions or Milks when mixed with Water—Prone to Change—Amandine—Olivine—Honey and
Almond Paste—Pure Almond Paste—Almond Meal—Pistachio Nut Meal—Jasmine Emulsion—Violet
Emulsion
SECTION X.
MILKS OR EMULSIONS.
Liebig's notice of Almond Milk—Milk of Roses—Milk of Almonds—Milk of Elder—Milk of Dandelion—
Milk of Cucumber—Essence of Cucumber—Milk of Pistachio Nuts—Lait Virginal—Extract of Elder
SECTION XII.
POMADES AND OILS.
Pomatum, as its name implies, originally made with Apples—Scentless Grease—Enfleurage and Maceration process—Acacia, or Cassie Pomade—Benzoin Pomade and Oil— etc...
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By G.W. Septimus Piesse
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THE ART OF PERFUMERY AND METHODS OF OBTAINING THE AROMAS OF PLANTS was first published in 1857, and to this day remains THE quintessential guide to distilling your own essential oils, and for using them to make your own cosmetics, scented soaps, smelling salts, bouquets, nosegays, sachets, perfumed papers, perfumed leather, incense, aromatic lamp oils, emulsines (soap substitutes), cold creams, lip salves, perfumed hair oils, hair dyes, face powders, rouges, tooth powders, mouth washes, hair rinses and more! This must-have manual of all things olfactory is an attractive, informative and preeminently practical volume the perfumer, aromatherapist, herbalist or crafter in your life is sure to cherish. |
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