I like everyone to have something special for Christmas and I loathe the prepackaged "Oh I have to get a present in a hurry" area at walmart so I make presents. Tonight I'm making bathsalts, it's cold so that's my theme. I will be making Lazy Lavender bedtime bath salts and Winter Woes sinus relief bath salts. I start out by making a big container of "base" salt. My base salt recipe is as follows - 64oz Epsom salt, 12oz dead sea salt, 12oz dendritic salt and 2oz Tapioca powder. Mix all those ingredients and then pull some out and add 2.5oz melted coconut oil and .7oz optiphen. The reason I pull out a little bowl of "base" to mix the liquids with is because it is easiest for me to mix the them together and them mix that bowl with the whole container. Sometimes the liquids clump up and I don't want all my preservative to clump in one area, that would be no good. A pint jar holds about 13.5oz of this mixture. Pull out however much base you need and put it in a separate bowl. I am using Sinus Relief fragrance by Natures garden and aqua pearl mica by Brambleberry. Weight your salt base and add 3% fragrance to that. You can add more or less, for this fragrance in particular this is a great amount. When adding colorants start out with a small amount and move up slowly. I find sprinkling it like this helps. Fill jars and set aside. They are light green.........the flash says otherwise. Lazy Lavender is next, pull out however much base and add your fragrances accordingly. I used Lavender 40/42 essential oil and Vanilla Spectacular from Nature's garden. I did end up throwing a tad of Brambleberrys Black Amber and Lavender at the end to deepen the scent. Fill jars and set aside. Get out the fun stuff! I printed my labels from Avery, it is free and very easy to use. I used Mod Podge to glue them to the tops which was a terrible idea because they just fell off........lol. Looks like I'll be using the glue gun for that too. Finished products :) These are for family so the labeling is different than for selling. I used mason jars for these and I would never use glass for selling either, below are some I made that will be shipped, they are plastic.
0 Comments
|
Archives
March 2016
Categories |