title: Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics)
author: Elizabeth Letcavage
description: Elizabeth Letcavage is the editor/author of Basic Soap Making, Natural Soap Making, and Basic Leathercrafting. She gardens, crafts, and writes in central Pennsylvania. Patsy Buck is a soap maker who operates Handmade Soap by Patsy in Pennsylvania.
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  Beyond Beginners: Advanced Soapmaking for the Rest of Us! - Book One
  
  
  
  
  
  BY
  
  
  DARREN JORGENSEN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Preface to Book One
  
  
  
  
  
  I write this preface after developing my outline for the complete book, but
  after writing only the first half of it.
  
  
  
  
  
  Why do I stop here?
  
  
  
  
  
  I don’t stop. I pause. I wonder at the number of words and conclude that this
  is enough information to keep a reader engrossed for several days - and
  possibly overwhelm them. There is a lot to learn here, depending entirely on
  how far advanced each of you, my readers, are in cold process soapcrafting.
  
  
  
  
  
  My goal is to teach. My aims are lofty, I realize. Who am I to teach? Just
  some bloke who had to learn a lot of it on his own - because the books just
  weren’t out there to teach me.
  
  
  
  
  
  I’ve done the research. I mean the research of looking for other intermediate
  soapcrafting books. And you know what? The pickings are slim. And of those few
  that are available I always found some basic 