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Bath & Shower Time
A selection of pampering products to soothe, moisturise, relax or simply lift your mood whilst you wash away the day.
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How to make rose petal bath salts
RECIPES
Soaks
Buttermilk Bath Bloom
Luxuriate Moisturising Bath Milk
Mineral Mud Wallow Bath
Muscle Revival Mineral Soak
Fizz
Glitter Bubbly FIzz
Rose Petal FIzz
Lemon Butter FIzz
Melts
Chocolate Bath Melts
Sheer Bliss Bath Melts
Scrubs
Invigorating Body Scrub
Dry Sugar Mud Scrub
Happy Scrub
Little Lime & Ginger Scrubbers
Sucragel Sugar Scrub Plus
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Body Care & SPA product videos
This is so moisturising and skin softening that your skin will feel like velvet.
30g cocoa butter
120g powdered skimmed milk
30g buttermilk powder
15g cornflour
1g sweet orange essential oil
1g chamomile essential oil
Grate the cocoa butter into bowl. Add the skimmed milk powder, buttermilk powder and cornflour and mix well.
Add the essential oils and mix well wnsuring that there is no clumping.
Place in a bottle or jar with lid.
Directions: Add a handful (approx 30g) to a warm bath.
Shelf Life - 9 months
Luxuriate Moisturising Bath Milk
20g sucragel
40g peach kernel oil
20g jojoba oil
6g cocoa butter
10g glycerine
2g essential oil
Heat sucragel to approximately 70°C (no need to be absolutely accurate, a guess will do if you don't have a thermometer to hand)
Heat oils and butter to 70°C
Add together whisking as you do (I'm a bit cack handed so I pour then whisk)
Cool to tepid
Add glycerine and essential oils and stir well
Place into container. If the bath milk separates a little (depends on how good your whisking was!) then shake before use.
To use: Pour about one third of the bottle into a lovely warm bath.
Caution - may make bath slippery.
This recipe makes approximately 100g bath milk
Shelf life - 1 year
Bathe like a hippo! All these minerals will help sooth and relax. No wonder hippos like to wallow.
30g Epsom salts
30g sea salt (preferably dead sea salt)
15g bicarbonate of soda
15g citric acid
15g cornflour
5g dead sea mud
1g rosemary essential oil
Place all the dry ingredients into a bowl and stir until thoroughly combined. Add the essential oil and continue to stur until the essential oil is thoroughly mixed in.
Place in a bottle or jar with lid
Directions: Add a handful to a warm bath
Shelf Life - 18 months
A mineral bath soak designed to rejuvenate tired muscles
30g powdered skimmed milk
80g sea salt
25g Epsom salts
10g tapioca starch
5g cornflour
1g rosemary essential oil
1g lemon essential oil
Place the tapioca starch in a bowl and add the essential oils. Stir well and leave to rest for 5 minutes.
Add the rest of the ingredients into the same bowl and stir until thoroughly combined witht he tapioca starch.
Place in a bottle or jar with lid.
Directions: Add a handful (approx 30g) to a warm bath.
Shelf Life - 9 months
Glitter Bubbly Fizz
180g bicarbonate of soda
60g citric acid
20g sodium cocoyl isothionate (SCI)
Blue liquid colouring
4g geranium essential oil
A quarter of a teaspoon of cosmetic grade glitter
For a mould use an ice cube tray or similar
1. Combine the bicarbonate of soda with the citric acid in a large bowl and mix well using your hands or a spoon. Break up any lumps until you have a consistent mixture. Avoid breathing in the mixture as it may cause you to sneeze! Wear thin rubber/polythene/latex gloves if you wish to protect your hands.
2. Add the the SCI to the bowl and mix well.
3. Add the blue liquid colouring and stir well (and quickly to prevent hte mixture from fizzing)
4. Add the geranium essential oil, then add the cosmetic grade glitter and mix well.
5. Squeeze a little of the mixture in the palm of your hand. If it sticks together and holds its shape then the mixture is ready to put into moulds. If it is still a little crumbly, add a tiny amount of water and tstir quickly (adding water will cause the mixture to fizz up. DO NOT ADD TOO MUCH WATER OR YOUR MIXTURE WILL FIZZ WHEN PLACED IN THE MOULDS).
Squeeze again - if the mixture holds together like damp sand then you have the correct consistency.
6. Fill the mould as tight as you can with the bath fizz mixture. Press down with your fingers to compact the mixture. If you have any mixture left over, you can use any small shape or container as a mould.
7. Wash your hands after completing end ensure that they are thoroughly dry before cleaning up.
180g bicarbonate of soda
60g citric acid
dried rose petals
Red liquid colouring
4g rose fragrance oil
For a mould use an ice cube tray or similar
1. Place a few of the rose petals in the base of each ice cube tray compartment
2. Combine the bicarbonate of soda with the citric acid in a large bowl and mix well using your hands or a spoon. Break up any lumps until you have a consistent mixture. Avoid breathing in the mixture as it may cause you to sneeze! Wear thin rubber/polythene/latex gloves if you wish to protect your hands.
3. Add the rose fragrance oil and mix thoroughly until the fragrance oil is absorbed.
4. Add a few drops of the red liquid colouring.
NOTE: - As soon as you add any liquid colouring, the mixture will start fizzing. Quickly cover the fizzing mixture with some of the non-fizzing mixture in the bowl to 'control' it.
5. Mix in the colour so that it is evenly distributed, adding a little more ( quickly covering the fizzing mixture) as necessary until you reach the colour you desire.
6. Squeeze a little of the mixture in the palm of your hand. If it sticks together and holds its shape then the mixture is ready to put into moulds. If it is still a little crumbly, add a tiny amount of water and treat it as if it is liquid colour as it will cause the mixture to fizz up. DO NOT ADD TOO MUCH WATER OR YOUR MIXTURE WILL FIZZ WHEN PLACED IN THE MOULDS.
Once you have the correct consistency and it is holding its shape when squeezed you can start to pack the moulds.
7. Fill the mould as tight as you can with the bath fizz mixture. Press down with your fingers to compact the mixture. If you have any mixture left over, you can use any small shape or container as a mould.
8. Wash your hands after completing step 7 and ensure that they are thoroughly dry before cleaning up.
180g bicarbonate of soda
60g citric acid
20g cocoa butter
Yellow liquid colouring
4g lemon essential oil
For a mould use an ice cube tray or similar
1. Melt the cocoa butter either in a bowl over hot water, or in a microwaveable bowl (melt using short bursts of microwave power)
2. Combine the bicarbonate of soda with the citric acid in a large bowl and mix well using your hands or a spoon. Break up any lumps until you have a consistent mixture. Avoid breathing in the mixture as it may cause you to sneeze! Wear thin rubber/polythene/latex gloves if you wish to protect your hands.
3. Add the melted cocoa butter and stir.
4. Add the lemon essential oil and mix thoroughly until the essential oil is absorbed.
5. Add yellow liquid colour to the mixture noting that the mixture will start to fizz so you need to act quickly.
6. Dollop the mixture into the moulds and leave to set. These will take longer to set than regular fizz due to the cocoa butter.
50g cocoa butter
25g sweet almond oil
1g chocolate fragrance oil
Melt the cocoa butter in a glass jug over a pan of hot water on a low heat. Once just melted add the sweet almond oil and mix thoroughly. Remove from heat and leave to cool a little.
Add the chocolate fragrance oil and stir.
Once cooled but still completely liquid, pour into ice cube tray moulds and cool in the fridge for 24 hours.
Press out of ice cube moulds as you would an ice cube and leave at room temperature.
Directions - drop one melt in a warm bath
Caution - may make bath slippery
Shelf Life - 3 years
These look so beautiful - and you can stick silk or dried flowers on top to make them look even more stunning. Little sugarcraft flowers work just as well and will dissolve in the bath.
50g shea butter
25g sweet almond oil
100g bicarbonate of soda
50g citric acid
3g angelica fragrance oil
water soluble colouring
Place the shea butter in a plastic jug. Soften the shea butter a little by giving it a few short bursts in a microwave until it is soft enough to easily prod your finger into. Add the sweet almond oil and beat using a handheld whisk (you can use a fork, but you will end up with a sore arm!) until it is light and fluffy and looks rather like an uncooked meringue mixture.
Put to one side and measure out the bicarbonate of soda and ctiric acid. Mix together in a bowl and set to one side.
Meanwhile, go back and give the shea butter/oil another whisk.
Add the angelica fragrance oil to your shea butter/oil mixture and beat again until thoroughly blended. Gradually add the bicarbonate/citric acid mixture beating after you have added about 50g (in other words, you'll be adding the bicarbonate of soda/citric acid mixutre in three almost-equal lots).
Give the mixture one final whisk (although this won't be so easy now as it will have become more solid with the bicarb/citric mixture added).
Add a little of your chosen colour and mix until thoroughly blended. Spoon into little cake cases or whatever you wish your mixture to set in. Decorate with glitter, jewels, flowers and leave somewhere to set for at least 12 hours.
Directions: Drop one into a warm bath and enjoy the sparkling aroma.
Caution: May make bath slippery
Shelf Life - 12 months
Invigorating Body Scrub100g sea salt (or combination of sea salt, fine grain salt with epsom salts)
20g melted butter (cocoa or shea butter)
50g oil (or combination of olive, jojoba, sweet almond, grape seed, wheatgerm or evening primrose oils)
30g glycerine
1g sweet orange essential oil
1g peppermint essential oil
2g geranium essential oil
A few drops of liquid colouring
Combine salts and oils in large bowl. Add glycerine and mix well.
Add the essential oils and sufficient amount of liquid colouring to get the desired shade. Mix well. Place in jar and label.
Directions - massage onto damp skin then wash/rinse off.
Caution - may make bath or shower floor slippery.
Shelf Life - 6 months
This one is oh so simple and yet oh so effective!
Whilst we've called it a dry scrub, you will want to add a little olive oil to ensure that the sugar 'clumps' rather than just falls through your fingers. How much you use is up to you and will depend on whether you've gone for the more absorbant caster sugar or not. You can't add too much, so just tip in a little at a time until you have the texture you want.
50g granulated or caster sugar (depending on how 'scratchy' you want it to be!)
10g dead sea mud
10g - 20g olive oil
15 drops of essential oil
Combine sugar, mud and oil in a suitable container (plastic jug or bowl). Add the essential oils and mix well.
Place in plastic bag or small jar and label. Yes, it's that easy!
Directions - massage onto damp skin then wash/rinse off
Caution - may make bath or shower floor slippery
Shelf life - 6 months
300g fine pink Himalayan salt
20g glycerine
20g grapeseed oil
65g cherry kernel oil
65g mango butter
2.5ml orange essential oil
2.5ml bergamot essential oil
Place the pink salt into a jug or bowl
Pour over the glycerine, grapeseed and cherry kernel oils
Leave to seep for five minutes
Whilst waiting, gently melt or soften the mango butter
Add the softened/melted mango butter to the oils/salts mixture and stir well
Adjust to your desired consistency by adding more liquid oils/salts depending on whether you want more of a gloopy, slurry or fairly solid scrub
Add the essential oils and stir well to ensure that they are thoroughly incorporated in the scrub mixture
Place into a jar and label so that you can identify the contents
For use in the shower or bath
Directions for use - massage onto damp skin then wash/rinse off.
Caution - may make bath or shower floor slippery.
Shelf Life - 9 months
Little Lime & Ginger Scrubbers
A quick and easy way to exfoliate and moisturise at the same time! These little scrubbers are the perfect size to give yourself an all over treatment.
40g cocoa butter
20g peach kernel oil
40g bicarbonate of soda
15g citric acid
0.5g ginger essential oil
1g lime essential oil
Mould - an ice cube tray works perfectly for this recipe
Melt the cocoa butter in a suitable bowl or jug. When melted, take off the heat and leave to cool a little.
Blend the bicarbonate of soda and citric acid and add the essential oils. Mix until the essential oils are thoroughly blended into the mixture. Add the peach kernel oil to the cooling cocoa butter and then pour the oils into the bicarb/citric mixture. Stir well and pour/dollop into an ice cube tray.
Place in the fridge for 24 hours. After 24 hours, take out of the mould.
Directions for use: For use in a bath or shower. Wet body, then take one little scrubby and massage onto skin in circular movements. The scrubby will exfoliate and moisturise at the same time. Wash and rinse as normal after use. Pat body dry with a towel.
Caution: May make bath or shower slippery
Shelf Life : 12 months. Store somewhere dry and cool
20g sucragel
65g sweet almond oil
40g caster sugar
1g essential oil
Whisk the sucragel using a milk frother or similar. Slowly add the sweet almond oil whisking all the time. Add the essential oil and give it one final whisk.
Sprinkle the sugar over the mixture and leave to seep. If necessary, adjust by adding either more sugar or more sweet almond oil depending on how you prefer the texture of you final scrub.
Place into a wide necked container.
To use - take a handful of the scrub and massage onto damp skin whilst standing in the shower or bath. Rinse.
Caution - may make bath or shower tray slippery.
Shelf life: 6 months