New eBook: Secrets of Handmade Soap Making — Your Complete Beginner's Guide

If you've ever stood in your kitchen with lye and oils measured out, heart pounding, wondering if you're about to make something beautiful or ruin your countertop — this book is for you. It's for every one of you who's DM'd me "okay but HOW do I actually start" more times than I can count. So I finally sat down and wrote the whole thing out, start to finish, no gatekeeping, no scattered fifteen-tabs-open research required.

Secrets of Handmade Soap Making is my complete, 134-page, beginner-to-confident guide to cold-process soap — and it's officially live in the shop today. ♡

Why I wrote it this way

I didn't want another book that hands you a recipe and calls it a day. I wanted the why. Why does lye do what it does. Why does a recipe need to be run through a calculator before you pour it. Why your first batch might seize on you and what to actually do about it (spoiler: it's fixable, and you are not a failure). So the book walks you through five parts:

• Part One — Before You Begin: real safety habits, the protective gear you actually need (not everything the internet tries to sell you), and handling sodium hydroxide with confidence instead of fear.
• Part Two — The Science & the Craft: saponification explained in plain human language, recipe formulation, lye calculators, and fragrance safety.
• Part Three — Your First Batch: the full step-by-step, lye solution through cure, plus troubleshooting for the classic first-batch hiccups.
• Part Four — 10 Tested Recipes: Kitchen Staples, Sunshine Citrus, Lavender Oat, Coconut Dream, Honey Oat, Charcoal Cleansing, Coconut Milk, Rosemary Mint, Palm-Free Unscented, and Bastile. Ten. Real. Recipes.
• Part Five — Growing Your Craft: labeling basics and the beginning of the "could I actually sell this someday" conversation, plus a full ingredient and supplier reference you'll keep coming back to.

This genuinely is meant to be a book you keep on the shelf (or the desktop, no judgment) and flip back to — not a one-and-done read.

Who it's for

Complete beginners who've never touched lye in their life. Hobby makers who want to finally understand why a recipe works instead of just following it blindly. Anyone thinking about eventually selling who wants a real technical foundation before they get there.

The details

• 134 pages · digital PDF, instant access once checkout is live
• 10 beginner-tested recipes
• Regularly $29.99 — on sale now for $14.99 ♡

Get Secrets of Handmade Soap Making →

I am so, so excited for you to have this. Go make something beautiful — and tell me which recipe you try first.

With so much love, Denise