About my book
Overview
- Various soap carving techniques
- 40 cute tutorials for every experience level
- Three experience levels
- 128 pages
- High quality illustrations
- Each presented soap can be used for bathing, as decoration in your home or gifts for your friends or family!
What is inside the book?
- Introduction
- A brief history of soap carving
- Using carved soap
- Benefits of soap carving
- Advantages of carving soap versus molding soap
- Chapter 1: Materials & Tools
- Soap for carving
- Tools for carving soap
- Additional carving tools
- Other supplies
- Chapter 2: Essential techniques
- Getting started
- Preparing to Carve
- Softening Soap
- Holding a Carving Knife correctly
- Working with the Templates
- Shaping Soap for Carving
- Carving lessons
- Adding color
- Decorating with beads
- Recycling soap scraps
- Gift-giving ideas