Try it! ~
I found a recipe on Pinterest for Homemade lotion bars: A lotion bar
is like solid lotion, but it melts as you rub it on your warm skin. Keep it in
a tin in your purse, wonderfulness. (this
is the idea)
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| lotion bars in tins (the lids are underneath) and the molds I used |
Equal
parts of:
beeswax or (4.5oz) I suggest pellets, they are so easy!
beeswax or (4.5oz) I suggest pellets, they are so easy!
shea butter or (4oz)
coconut oil or (4oz)
coconut oil or (4oz)
and
essential oils / vitamin E
the Result:
Stinky! Shea butter stinks!
Even after dumping 3 ml of my essential oil blend (vs just a few drops, which
is what things normally call for), all I smell is Shea butter. I would suggest
doing half as much Shea as coconut oil, (or maybe buying coco butter instead of shea??) But I made such a large batch, (which I don’t
even care for using because of the smell) so I don’t know if I’ll EVER need
to make another batch (I made so many because they were gonna be part of my
home-made neighbor Christmas gifts, but then I never got around to passing them
out…)
Fail… (they are moisturizing,
and pretty cool, but it’s hard to get over the smell)
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| bath fizzies in and out of their gift bags. |
Another part of my non-given
Christmas gifts was Bath Fizzies, recipe also found on Pinterst:
1 ¾ cup
Baking Soda
2 cups
Cornstarch
1 cup Citric
Acid
Water in a spritzer
(with a few drops food coloring)
5-6 drops Essesntial Oils
You mix the dry ingredients, then slow spritz and stir
(trying to avoid too much fizzing) until it can be tightly packed, then you add
the essential oil, stir it in. then pack it into small baking molds.
Let dry/set for atleast 2 hours, then pop out. It says she suggest ¼ cup per fizzy, is good
for 1 bath.
This turned out better than the lotion bars (no stinky shea
butter) and it fizzied in the tub! I added one at the end of my kids bath and
they loved it.
Success!
The 3rd part of my gift was a salt scrub, I made a tiny bit for myself, and liked it, I also made a single jar as a thank you to a friend (don't know what she thought of it) Then thought it would be easiest to make a big batch then divide it into jars. But I never cleaned up my baby food jars (the sticky residue from the labels) and I never spray painted the lids (so they'd be cute instead of looking like baby food jars) And since I never prepped my jars I never made the big batch... But it's really easy!
There are so many combinations to be found (via pinterest) So you can do whatever you want, the basics are:
sea salt
oil (evoo (has a smell to it), almond oil, or whatever your favorite is (apricot, grape seed, avocado...)
*use half as much oil as salt.
add essential oil of your choice (for smell and/or health properties)
**you can add whatever else
you want, dried herbs, honey, citrus zest or juice, coconut oil, vitamin E.
Whatever! Though I was just sticking to
the basic 3 ingredients, nothing fancy here!
For all my home-made gifts I created my own essential oil blends to 'flavor' them: a Holiday blend with cinnamon and other Christmas-y smells, and a Citrus Mint blend with Peppermint and a variety of Citrus oils.
They were gonna be cool gifts, except the lotion bars stink (you can't smell my awesome oils over the shea butter), and I never made the salt scrub. So I failed to hand out my gifts even after all my effort. So sad. (if you want some bath fizzies or a lotion bar stop on by!)
-Angela
