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Homemade Bath and Beauty Recipes

By editor ⋅ December 10, 2006 ⋅ Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Bath and beauty products that you make yourself to give as gifts are more personal and meaningful than their expensive commercial counterparts.  Carefully chosen oils, herbs, fruits and spices allow a wide variety of fragrant concoctions, while common ingredients such as epsom salts, baking soda or oatmeal are easy to work with and readily available.

On Creative-Home.net, you’ll find a primer on making Homemade Facial Toner, including recipes to make refreshing watermelon toner, rose petal skin toner, apple toner and pine needle facial toner.   There is also a selection of  Bath and Beauty Recipes, including bath or shower gel,  sea salt bath scrub, herbal bath tea, lavender bath powder, fizzing bath crystals, and lilac bubble bath.

At AllFreeCrafts, we have Printable Oatmeal Milk Bath Sachets - pretty sachets with a romantic ladies theme to be filled with a few tablespoons of a simple oatmeal milk bath recipes.  I had lots of emails from people who tried these last Mother’s Day - and they seem to have worked out very well.  I like them myself, and always have a few set out in the bathroom. 

There’s also five recipes for Aromatherapy Bath Salts, remarkably easy to make, and very pretty when you decorate recycled glass jars with our free jar labels.  Choose the color and essential oil fragrance to suit the recipient - there is even one recipe for sugar and spice bathsalts, scented with cinnamon, ginger and cloves.  You’ll find instructions on how to reproduce the decorated jars as well, using common household string, ribbons, raffia or a doily.