Creative Catalyst Productions
Soapmaking: Easy Melt and Pour Creations. Few crafts are as much fun and rewarding as soapmaking. And melt and pour soap is the easiest, quickest and most creative type of soapmaking there is.
You can create unique and individual soaps in just minutes and at a fraction of the cost of fancy, store-bought soaps. Included in this program are recipes and demonstrations for making green tea soap, oatmeal and lavender soaps, healing soaps, moisturizing soaps and much, much more.
Once you learn how, you may never buy another bar of soap again. (P.S. Soap makes great gifts, too!) Also included is a Special Features section with soap recipes, materials and tools list, diagrams for making soap gift boxes. The recipes, diagrams plus a materials and tools list are also available in PDF versions, and can be downloaded from the DVD disk.
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Sharyn Pak offers an excellent introductory lesson in the craft of melt-and-pour soapmaking, a quick and safe method for creating a variety of soaps. The step-by-step instructions for each of the 13 projects are easy to understand, and the chapters are arranged from easiest to most difficult projects. Pak includes tips and suggestions to help make the crafting experience enjoyable, safe, and productive. Oatmeal, moisturizing, scented, and decorative are some of the types of soaps made. A list of materials and tools (microwave, measuring cup, knife, plastic molds, green tea, oatmeal, shea butter, lavender, etc.) and soap recipes are included in the "Special Features" segment. This excellent, creative demonstration of soapmaking techniques would be suitable for classes, crafting clubs, or at-home use.
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Now anyone can make wonderfully smelling, beautifully configured, superbly textured decorated soaps in the comfort of their own home just by following the ‘user-friendly’ video, “Soapmaking: Easy Melt & Pour Creations.” This 112 minute, full color, full frame DVD provides step-by-step demonstrations of the ‘melt and pour’ method of making soaps that can be created from beginning to end in less than an hour. The processes taught are the easiest and safest soap making techniques ever—and the only limits to creativity are the mind’s imagination. The tools required are common to every household beginning with a microwave oven, a measuring cup, a knife, and a small kitchen scale. Host Sharyn Pak provides a running commentary replete with tips, tricks, and techniques that will result in truly impressive made-it-yourself soaps to grace any bathroom and make unique gift-giving for do-it-yourself craft and hobby enthusiasts, and would make an enduring popular addition to community DVD collections.
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Craft expert Sharyn Pak (whose Scrapebooking: Memories Made Simple was reviewed in VL - 1/09) is back in this instructional program on making soap. Citing the fun and economical benefits in home soapmaking, Pak provides a brief history of soap from its origins in Ancient Babylon and explains the various methods used including hot and cold press (with lye or fat), hand-milled (which combines either hot or cold press soap with other ingredients) and the approach demonstrated here, the safer and even kid-friendly melt and pour technique. Emphasizing the basics, Pak prefaces her presentation for each style of soap with a pictorial illustrating necessary add-ins, materials, and tools (such as soap-base, measuring cups, oatmeal, fragrances, Shea butter, molds and dyes). Viewers learn to make soap that look like fruit slices, hearts and confetti, a “Peace, Love and Lather” soap, soaps melded with decorative loofahs; even a “Hardworking Hands” soap with oat meal for exfoliating and vitamin E for healing. Concluding with ideas on gift wrapping, packaging for ultimate freshness and making decorative boxes out of card stock, Easy Melt & Pour Creations—which includes text materials lists and PDF-accessible resources—is definitely recommended.