Soap Making Through History - A Collection of Antique Soap Making Books
Friday June 27, 2008
You probably have to be a pretty dedicated soap maker to really appreciate and enjoy the history and traditions of soap making throughout the ages. But I've never really been satisfied just knowing how to make soap...I wanted to know why to make soap, or rather, what has motivated soap makers throughout the centuries. I'm fascinated by how far we've come in science...and at how the process is pretty much still the same. These scans of antique soap making books, courtesy of good old Google, will show you hundreds of years of soap making history. I bet you'll discover some things that you never knew about soap making. I'll also bet that you'll find the same soap making spirit in these authors that us modern soap makers share.Photo Credit: George Marks / Getty Images
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