Made Especially For Christmas
You can make peppermint bath salts. Use peppermint essential oil, divide in half, color one half red, and leave the other white. Get some clear jars and make a 'candy cane' stripe bath salt!
Easy Milk Bath
Just add 1/2 - 1 cup of dried milk to your bath water for a softening and soothing bath.
Milk Bath #2
2 cups dry milk powder
1 cup cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon fragrance oil of your choice
Blend together all ingredients in blender. Add 1/2 cup of mixture to hot bath water.
Chocolate Milk Bath
For kids, how about a chocolate-milk bath? Just put a couple of Tablespoons powdered coca in a couple of cups of powdered milk!
Citrus Body Splash
Your friends will love the uplifting aroma of this citrus blend!
1/2 cup distilled water
1/2 cup alcohol (100 proof ethyl alcohol or vodka)
5 drops each of Orange, Lemon and Tangerine Essential Oils.
Blend essential oils in alcohol and then stir in the distilled water. Package in a glass container. Cobalt or green bottles with an atomizer is a nice way to package this for gift giving. Shake before using.
To find more recipes and ideas for products you can make at home and to find online locations for the ingredients listed in these products try these pages:
The Original Toiletries Library
A vast number of recipes in every category, as well as an extensive index of suppliers.
Meltand Pour.com
Recipes with links to suppliers.
The Herbarie
Tips on Making Your Own Products. Includes a section on "Herb Facts and Lore".
More ideas from Suite 101:
Skin Care Made Easy
By Kim A. Draper
Home-made Herbal Sunscreen
By Ellen Lord
A Gift for Father's Day
Unisex Skin Lotion or Aftershave Lotion By Adrienne Reid
And there are many more. Just search the Suite 101 site for more "make your own toiletries".
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