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By Marie Gale

Does the history of soap and cosmetics intrigue you? Do you look for inspiration from the past? If you answered yes, then this book is for you!

Find recipes in many categories from the 1800s or 1900s as well as modern recipes. There are even a few "Strange & Bizarre" recipes that have been included to show how odd recipes have been.

We think you will love this book as your fingers walk through time! Taylor has found this book to really twirl her geek beanie. We are sure it will twirl yours, too!

By Kirsten K. Shockey & Christopher Shockey.

We've loved the Fermented Vegetables book and so when Fiery Ferments came out, we had to snap up this book as well!

This book on fermenting your own hot sauces, kimchi, and spicy chutney is incredible. Taylor has made her own hot sauce using this book and we've even seen the socks knocked off some of the spice lovers around!

By Marie Gale

There are many paths that may have brought you to this point where you are an fabulous maker of soaps or cosmetics. No matter how you got here, how do you guarantee your products are the same every time?

Marie Gale walks you through everything you should know about Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). Create operating procedures for your products, keep fabulous records and even simplify your production.

Make your life easier and allow your business to flourish!

By Jackie Thompson

Want to delve into the world of liquid soaps, but not sure where to start? This book will help you make beautiful liquid soap no matter if you are a beginner or have several batches of liquid soap under your belt!

We've found this book to be filled with clear and helpful explanations, color photos, and tables and charts illustrating how to: a) Successfully create sparkling clear soaps quickly and easily every time. b) Formulate liquid soap so you never have to dissolve a stubborn soap paste again. c) Make the most luxuriously thick shower gels ever. d) Color, fragrance and thicken your liquid soap. e) Add nutritive value with herbal extracts and infusions. f) Extend the shelf life and stability of your soap. g) Formulate your own recipes.

An excellent resource and great for troubleshooting mid-batch!

By Donna Maria

156 pages of Donna Maria's aromatic concoctions. If you want some answers to your lotion questions this may be the best place to start.

Learn about emulsions, and how to work with thickeners and additives for the best creams you can make.

by Catherine Failor

This booklet explains how to make cream soaps. The trick is they use a combination of lyes, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide. Allow Catherine to walk you through the process and make these fun items!

Think shaving soap, think grease monkey soap, think paste soaps, think wonderful in a jar or tube!

By Catherine Failor

134 pages. Have you wanted to learn how to make liquid soaps and gels? This book is the best gift you can give yourself. We have had a great amount of fun playing with liquid soaps and they are overwhelmingly accepted by the general public.

By Catherine Failor

This book covers how to make your own transparent soaps. These beauties are often called glycerin soaps. We found this book easy to understand, and the soaps fun to make. The author gives simple, step-by-step instructions using either animal fats or vegetable oils. There are specialized formulations, all created and tested by the author. Don't let anyone tell you transparent soaps can't be made at home. They can!

By Jonathan Adolph

136 pages. The best part about being a soapmaker and a parent is encouraging our children's young minds to explore the world around them.

This fun book is packed with 40 fun experiments for scientists 8 years and older. All you need is a few household items, a mason jar, and curiosity! Experience adventures while making slime, tornadoes, lava lamps, and more. Have fun and learn with the kids after your adventurous soap making sessions!

By Rosemary Gladstar

Medicinal Herbs is a great book and has been a valuable resource for many who study herbs. Learning about plants, their uses and their cautions, is an enjoyable addition to making our own soaps. Maybe you will stumble upon a few herbs that kick your soaps and salves over into exceptional products which heal as well as clean.

We highly recommend! The 7 x 9 inch book can easily fit into any hand bag or backpack for reading when a few minutes come around.

By Susan Miller Cavitch

Susan Miller Cavitch takes the mystery out of soapmaking, sharing her advice and formulas for making high-quality soaps that are good for your skin - and free of synthetic additives. She offers readers in-depth information on selecting and using a wide variety of nourishing fats and oils and fragrant essentials oils to create old favorites like oatmeal/honey, vitamin, and avocado soaps. Susan also includes her own unique recipes for goat milk, borage, mixed nut, tropical shampoo bars, and others.

By Nancy M Booth

This book will help you to expand your body care products. The author takes you step by step through the perfume making process. She also helps you to identify your own personal preferences and also what would appeal to other personality types. She gives formulations for combining essential oils and fragrance oils to make blends that are sure to please a wide variety of individuals. A must for anyone wanting to understand the scenting process.

By Marie Gale

Ever feel like the hardest part of making soaps and cosmetics just happens to be the labeling? Stop worrying!

Marie Gale simplifies the rules and regulations that seem overwhelming to any handcrafter. Learn how to label your products without the stress! Get advice that protects you from crossing the line between cosmetics and drugs.

This book is helpful in explaining everything you need to know in plain English. An ideal book for any business owner!

One of our favorite soap making books, we were heartbroken when it went out of print. After discovering several used copies of this book, we decided to bring our favorite book back to the catalog as an excellent resource. While each book has been used, we're only offering books that are still in good condition.

This book is considered the best place to start with your cold process soap making hobby. A good book with a good balance of art and science. We found this book to be required reading for our students.

By Stephanie L. Tourles

248 pages. Have you wanted to learn how to use essential oils effectively and safely? This book is the best gift you can give yourself or your best friend who wants to learn more about the best way to use essential oils.

An informative read, we think this book offers fantastic guidance for safe essential oil use. We've added this to our bookshelf and find that our blog team always pulls it our to reference the information inside!

This book by Colleen Dodt is to help new people to aromatherapy use essential oils. Use the plant essences as a part of a blend or solo. Essential oils can be used in a lot of areas, including soaps, lotions and diffusers.
160 pages.

By Susan Miller Cavitch

From the author of the best-selling The Natural Soap Book comes this illustrated guide to making over 40 specialty soaps - from exquisite stained-glass, marbled, and layered soaps to soothing masseuse bars, hardworking laundry soap, and practical liquid soaps.

By Alan Barclay, PhD, Philippa Sandall, & Claudia Shwide-Slavin, MS, RD, CDE. Foreword by Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD.

We love learning about many different topics here at MMS! This book is perfect for anyone who is always wanting to learn something new.

I've found this to be a great source of information about not only common sugars and sweeteners, but uncommon ones as well. I've been able to find nutritive contents for sugars, calories, and sweetness relative to sucrose. This book is teeming with the type of information that my great-grandma would have called "good information" and sent everyone she knew a copy!