Books, Home & Garden, Crafts & Hobbies, Potpourri

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Jim Long, Dagmar Fehlau
Making Herbal Dream Pillows : Secret Blends for Pleasant Dreams (The Spirit of Aromatherapy)
by Storey Publishing, LLC (Hardcover)

A lavish book offering step-by-step instructions for creating herbal-scented pillows for custom-made dreams.

Robert S. McDaniel
Essentially Soap: The Elegant Art of Handmade Soap Making, Scenting, Coloring & Shaping
by Krause Publications (Paperback)

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. -Easy to follow step-by-step instructions. -Time-saving melt and pour and rebatch techniques.

Catherine Bardey
Making Soaps & Scents : Soaps, Shampoos, Perfumes & Splashes You Can Make At Home
by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (Hardcover)

With this book, it is 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.

Ellen Spector Platt
Lavender: How to Grow and Use the Fragrant Herb
by Stackpole Books (Paperback)

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.

Casey Kellar
The Good Earth Bath, Beauty & Health Book
by Krause Publications (Paperback)

Ann Tucker Fettner
Potpourri, Incense, and Other Fragrant Concoctions
by Workman Publishing Company (Paperback)

"Recipes for making potpourri sachets, scented candles, [and more]. . . Many good suggestions for decorating. . ."-- Library Journal. "This delightful little book is for all flower lovers, rose gardeners, herb fanciers, and all who love the sweet smell of spring. Included are recipes and instructions for making enchanted scented concoctions-things like potpourris, sachets, incense, pomander balls, toilet water, and other flowery things"-- The South Carolina Gardener. Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. 209,000 copies in print.

Catherine Bardey
Making Candles & Potpourri: Illuminate and Infuse Your Home
by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (Hardcover)

Julia Bird
The Naturally Scented Home: Creating Traditional Scented Products with a Modern Twist
by Collins & Brown (Hardcover)

Any real estate agent will advise you boiling lemons or oranges will provide a "welcome" scent, while masking any unpleasant ones. It works, and drawing from the highly popular tradition of aromatherapy, a top interior designer shows how to keep a home smelling fresh and sweet and pure--emphasizing the use of easy, effective, and 100-percent-natural recipes. Beyond simple solutions to handling nasty odors, from banishing cooking smells to deodorizing a dog's bed, she offers exotic ideas (scented inks, pampering bath oils) for increasing your domestic pleasures. Concoct your own fragrant insecticides, air fresheners, furniture creams, laundry soap, moth bags, and more, and in addition make the most of flowers and incense. A Selection of the Country Home Book Club.

David A. Webb
Making Potpourri, Colognes, and Soaps: 102 Natural Recipes
by Tab Books (Paperback)

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Alan Cormack, David Carter
Flowers: Growing, Drying, Preserving
by Crescent (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1988-03-19)

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