📚 Soap Making

Lye and oil measured exactly: cold and hot process, scent and cure — craft chemistry you can hold.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject soap in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The modern soap and detergent industry	Martin, Geoffrey	1931	9
	Perfumes, cosmetics, and soaps	Poucher, W. A.	1936	6
	A treatise on chemistry applied to the manufacture of soap and candles	Campbell Morfit	1856	5
	The Strand Magazine	George Newnes	1891	5
	Natural and Handmade Soap Book	Sarah Harper	2014	5
	Soaps	George H. Hurst	1898	4
	Good Gifts from the Home	Kelly Reno	2000	4
	The Everything Soapmaking Book	Alicia Grosso	2003	4
	Smart soapmaking	Anne L. Watson	2007	4
	You wouldn't want to live without soap!	Alex Woolf	2015	4
	The Chemistry of Soap	A. Harris Stone	1968	3
	Poucher's Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps	W.A. Poucher	1992	3
	Making Transparent Soap	Catherine Failor	2000	3
	Making natural liquid soaps	Catherine Failor	2000	3
	Gourmet Soaps Made Easy	Melinda Coss	2001	3
	Making candles & soaps for dummies	Kelly Ewing	2005	3
	Soap manufacturing technology	Luis Spitz	2009	3
	Soapmaking the natural way	Rebecca Ittner	2010	3
	DIY artisanal soaps	Alicia Grosso	2015	3
	Formulations	Tharwat F. Tadros	2016	3
	Soaps and candles	James Cameron	1888	2
	American soaps	Henry Gathmann	1893	2
	Manual of toilet soapmaking	C. Deite	1904	2
	Soap-making manual	Edgar George Thomssen	1922	2
	Perfumes and spices, including an account of soaps and cosmetics	A. Hyatt Verrill	1940	2
	Soap	Ann Bramson	1975	2
	Fragrance	Beverly Plummer	1975	2
	The art of soap making	Merilyn Mohr	1991	2
	Soothing soaps for healthy skin	Sandy Maine	1997	2
	Handmade Soap	Tatyana Hill	1999	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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