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Kathleen Penner
A Beginner’s Guide to Handmade Soap with Herbs, Essential Oils, and Sustainable Ingredients
by Kathleen Penner
Create beautiful, nourishing soaps using simple, natural ingredients. This beginner-friendly guide walks you through the essentials of soapmaking and offers over 50 soothing recipes for everyday use. From herbal infusions to essential oil blends, each recipe is crafted to be both practical and gentle, helping you build confidence while creating products you will actually use and enjoy.
Rediscover the heritage and creativity of true soapmaking with Natural Soapmaking: 50 Simple & Soothing Recipes for Everyday Living by Kathleen Penner.
This comprehensive 200+ page handbook guides you through every major method, including cold process, hot process, melt-and-pour, liquid, and foaming soap. Blending practical instruction with timeless techniques, you will learn how to select ingredients with intention, craft herbal infusions, and design your own signature bars with confidence and ease.
Inside, you will find:
• Step-by-step guidance for each soapmaking method
• Essential safety practices, tools, and ingredient foundations
• Sustainable approaches for thoughtful, low-waste living
• Clear instructions for curing, cutting, and storage
• 50 original recipes, including Herbal Garden Soap, Rose Clay Swirl, Sea Salt Spa Bar, and Honey & Goat Milk Glow Bar
• A companion workbook section with space for notes, formulas, and reflection
More than a craft, soapmaking becomes a return to slower rhythms, a way to create something useful, nourishing, and beautiful by hand. Kathleen’s clear, structured approach makes the process accessible while encouraging creativity and personal expression.
Designed for beginners and expanding into a lasting skill, Natural Soapmaking is a practical, enduring guide to creating handmade soap you will use, share, and return to again and again.
Kathleen Penner is an author and award-winning travel industry leader creating refined, practical guides on wellness, self-sufficiency, and meaningful travel.
Kathleen Penner is an author, educator, and award-winning travel industry leader known for creating refined, practical guides that help readers live with greater intention, resilience, and clarity. With a background in business development and global travel, she has spent years guiding others through complex decisions, building trust, and delivering experiences that go beyond the surface. Her work now brings that same level of structure and insight into the world of wellness, self-sufficiency, and prepared living. Kathleen’s books are designed as usable systems, not just inspiration, offering readers clear frameworks, thoughtful guidance, and a sense of confidence in how they care for themselves and their homes. Whether writing about herbal remedies, food preservation, or everyday preparedness, her focus remains the same: to create resources that are both beautiful and deeply practical, grounded in real life and built to be returned to again and again.
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