Every bar of soap an Amish family uses was made by hand — with herbs from their garden, oils from their kitchen, and recipes that have never needed improving.
Lavender from the back fence. Calendula from the cutting garden. Rosemary, chamomile, peppermint, and rose — grown, dried, and infused into soaps that lather rich, smell pure, and treat skin the way nature always intended.
This book teaches you every one of those recipes.
The Amish Herbal Soap Bible is the complete guide to handcrafted herbal soap making — covering herb-infused cold process and hot process soaps, botanical colorants, flower and garden scents, and 50+ authentic recipes that put the full beauty of your herb garden into every bar.
Inside, you’ll discover:
The 25 most useful herbs and botanicals for soap making — lavender, calendula, chamomile, rosemary, peppermint, rose, comfrey, plantain, lemon balm, and more — with growing guides, drying methods, and specific soap making applications for each oneHow to make herbal-infused oils for soap — cold infusion, heat infusion, and solar infusion methods, with herb-to-oil ratios, infusion times, and a complete guide to which herbs pair best with which carrier oils for skin benefits and scentCold process herbal soap from first batch to finished bar — lye safety, trace, adding botanicals without morphing or bleeding, molding, cutting, and the 4-to-6 week cure, with a master beginner herbal recipe that works every timeHot process herbal soap — the traditional Amish preference for utility bars, how to add delicate botanicals after the cook to preserve color and scent, and recipes for laundry soap, hand soap, and farm soap using garden herbsNatural colorants from your garden — using spirulina, turmeric, madder root, indigo, chlorella, paprika, rose clay, and dried botanical powders to achieve beautiful natural colors without synthetic dyesScenting soap naturally — essential oils from garden plants, botanical scent combinations that hold through cure, and Amish-style unscented bars for sensitive skin50+ herbal soap recipes organized by garden and benefit — lavender and honey bars, calendula healing soap, rosemary and mint clarifying bars, rose petal luxury soap, comfrey skin repair soap, chamomile baby soap, peppermint foot soap, lemon verbena summer bars, and seasonal gift soaps from every corner of the herb gardenThis is not a modern artisan soap book with complicated techniques and specialty equipment. This is the complete traditional guide — herb garden to finished bar — written for anyone who has ever wanted to put the plants they grow into soap they actually use.
Scroll up and grab your copy — your herb garden has been waiting for this.
