Soapmaking
Practical Action
Further information
The following publications describe soapmaking in more detail:
• Small-scale Soapmaking: A handbook, by Peter Donker, Practical Action Publishing/TCC,
1993.
• Case Study No 3: Soap Pilot Plant, Technology Consultancy Centre, Kumasi, Ghana, 1983.
• Soap, Ann Bramson, Workman Publishing Co, 1975
• The Art of Soap Making, Merilyn Mohr, Camden House Publishing, 1979
• Making Soaps and Candles, Phyllis Hobson, Storey Communications Inc., 1973
This technical brief was last updated by Tony Swetman for Practical Action in
November 2008.
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