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The Blissful Bath - Book Review

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Blissful Bath

Blissful Bath by

Martingale and Company

The Bottom Line

This is a neat book that gives projects to help you transform your entire bathroom from the floormat to the shower curtain to your soap. Great pictures and diagrams. Solid, easy to understand instructions.
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Pros

  • Great simple to understand recipes & projects
  • Good diagrams and photos
  • Projects to transform your <b>entire</b> bathroom - not just soaps
  • Broad range of basic projects
  • Crossover appeal

Cons

  • Limited recipes if you're just looking for soaps and bath items

Description

  • A good basic book with a broad variety of bathroom related craft projects.
  • Good recipes and instructions - including great diagrams, photos and safety precautions.
  • A fun way to approach the transformation of your entire bathroom!

Guide Review - The Blissful Bath - Book Review

One of the unique things about soap making is that it's part of an overall attention to pampering and taking better care of ourselves - paying more attention to what we rub on our skin - and taking more delight in the textures and scents that make our bath time wonderful. Blissful Bath, compiled by Dawn Anderson, is a unique "soap making" book in that there are only a few soap recipes in it. She gives one good cold process recipe and two melt and pour recipes. She also gives a "bath tablet" and a "lip balm" recipe. The other 11 projects in the book are craft projects to help you transform your bathroom into a delightful refuge. From embellished shower curtains and hand towels to a beaded wastebasket and trimmed bath mat - she's looking at the bath room as a whole picture, from floor to ceiling. While I bought it for the soap recipes, it made me want to get out my sewing machine and paint brushes!
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