Homemade Spa Bath Products

Hello Ladies,

Below are the bath products we made at our last meeting. Please also view the bottom for some other fun products!

Homemade Milk Bath
(thanks toAngela Glover!)
1/2 cup powdered milk
1/4 cup Epsom salts
½ tbsp. baking soda
½ tsp. cornstarch
few drops of essential oil or 1/8 tsp. fragrance oil
optional: ¼ cup lavender buds
or dried flower petals

Natural Oatmeal Bath
(to relieve eczema/itchy skin)
½ cup ground oatmeal or Scottish oatmeal
½ cup cornstarch

Scented Bath Salts
1 cup Epsom salts
1/8 tsp. fragrance oil or few drops essential oil or dried lavender/flower petals
optional: 1 drop food coloring

Recommended Suppliers
Fragrance oil: Adamsboro Sundries (adamsborosundries.etsy.com)

California lavender buds: The Violet Patch (thevioletpatch.etsy.com)

Natural soaps: Oil and Spice (oilandspice.etsy.com or oilandspicebath.com)



Directions for mixing:
1. Add ingredients to Ziploc bag and seal
2. Shake to mix ingredients thoroughly
3. Pour spa product into small clear gift bag

**Tip**If scent is too light, add a few drops more of oil
If scent is too strong, add more Epsom salts


Other Bath Products to Try…

Chamomile-Mint Bath Salts
1/2 cup epsom salts
1/4 cup sea salt
2 bags peppermint tea (4 tsp leaves)
2 bags chamomile tea (4 tsp leaves)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon mint extract
Directions:
1
In a mixing bowl, combine both salts.
2
Add tea leaves and stir well.
3
Sprinkle both extracts over top of mixture and, with a wooden spoon, blend the extracts evenly throughout the salt mixture.
4
Fill a decorative jar with salts and close tightly.

Brown Sugar Scrub
(thanks to Carly!)
1/2 cup of brown sugar

1/4 cup of almond oil

1/4 cup of liquid Ivory hand soap

1/4 tsp of vanilla
Directions:
Mix ingredients and use as a body scrub/exfoliator.

Other website with bath recipes:
Bath salt tutorial:
http://www.skin-care-recipes-and-remedies.com/bath-salts-recipes.html
Skin care recipes and remedies blog:
http://skincarefromscratch.com/
More bath scrubs:
http://tipnut.com/homemade-sugar-scrub-recipes/