bath and body recipes collected from various places

8/2/2019 Bath and Body Recipes Collected From Various Places

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Ginger Cinammon-Salt Body Scrub by "AJ"

This body scrub has the fresh, invigorating scents of both ginger and cinnamon!

1 cup sea salt

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 cup almond oil or olive oil

Mix all ingredients together, then gently rub over your damp skin (except your face) to slough off dry

skin. Rinse with warm water.

Chocolate Covered Oreo Cookies

OK, so it's not a soap recipe - but these are so good and so cute and so simple to make - we just had

to include the recipe. Take a look at these simple step by step instructions.

Breakfast for your Skin - (Oatmeal & Brown Sugar Scrub)

Exfoliates and is very moisturizing but doesn't leave a greasy feeling. Before you turn off your shower

scoop a small handful of scrub into your hand. Rub gently onto your skin. Rinse.

3/4 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup ground oatmeal (not instant)

1/4 cup pure honey

3/4 to 1 cup (or to total saturation) Oil of choice - I use Jojoba, Grapeseed or Sweet Almond

1/4 tsp Essential or Fragrance oil of choice (optional) Vanilla works nicely. Though this smells great on

it's own.

Mix the brown sugar & oatmeal together in a large bowl. Now add the honey. Drizzle the oil over the

mix. Mix well. When all your mix is saturated and sinks to the bottom of the bowl and you have oil on


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top you're done. Add your essential oil or fragrance oil. A six or eight ounce wide-mouthed jar works

nicely. Spoon mixture in.

Brown Sugar and Lemon Scrub

A touch of lemon makes this scrub so refreshing! - Recipe submitted by Josephine Santos.

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup salt

1 tablespoon of kalamansi or lemon

1 tablespoon of virgin coconut oil(vco)

1 tablespoon of honey

Mix brown sugar and salt, then add kalamansi or lemon juice, virgin coconut oil and honey, mix well.

Aunt Katie's Body Scrub

Honey 3/4 cup

Caster sugar 1 cup

Sea salt 1 cup

Jojoba oil 3ml

Fragrance oil 3ml (orange & ylang ylang are beautiful combined with the honey)

Pour honey into medium sized bowl, then add sugar and stir to combine. Add the salt in increments,

to adjust the consistency to your liking. (I prefer a consistency not unlike crytallized honey). When all

ingredients combine, add oils and stir well. This recipe is particularly long keeping as the lack of water

discourages bacteria.

Honey Bee CP Soap

Olive Oil 32 oz.

Palm Oil 16 oz.

Tallow 24 oz.


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Totals 72 oz.

5% Superfatted Lye Amount 9.477 oz.

Ounces of water recommended 23.760 oz.

At trace, add fragrance and 1 Tablespoon of Honey. Do not insulate your soap as the Honey may

cause your soap to superheat.

Easy Shea Butter CP Soap

Coconut Oil 16 oz.

Olive Oil 18 oz.

Palm Oil 16 oz.Shea Butter 4 oz.

Tallow 16 oz.

Totals 70 oz.

5% Superfatted Lye Amount 9.815 oz.

Ounces of water recommended 23.100 oz.

Easy Lip Balm Recipe - using Lanolin

1oz. Olive Oil

.3oz of Lanolin

.4oz of Shea Butter

.4oz of Beeswax

Flavor oil and Stevia for taste.

Melt beeswax gently over a double boiler (or in the microwave if no double boiler is available). In a

separate container, heat the Lanolin oil and Shea Butter up until it is fully liquid. Add the olive oil to

the melted Lanolin oil and Shea Butter. Combine the beeswax and all the oil, stir well. Add flavoring (if

desired) and pour into containers.


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Skin Firming Gel - using CroThix

CroThix has a secondary use as a skin firming agent. (Its primary use is as a thickening agent in liquid

soaps, and shampoos.) Here is an easy gel that you can make that is good for all skin types, using

jojoba makes a non-comedogenic cream that won't clog your pores.(CroThix may be purchased at

Bramble Berry Soap Making Supplies)

This makes (4) four ounce containers of gel-crme.

Water 13 oz.

Glycerin .5 oz.

Emulsifying Wax or Ceteryl Alcohol 1 oz.

CroThix .7 oz.

Jojoba Oil .6 oz.

Germaben II or Phenonip .16 oz.

Fragrance or Essential Oil .16 - .50 oz.

Heat the Water and Glycerin to 170 degrees and set aside. Heat the Emulsifying Wax until melted and

add to the CroThix and Jojoba. Stir. Add the water and glycerin to the Emulsifying Wax, CroThix and

Jojoba. Mix until the creme is 105 degrees (or less). Add your fragrance and preservative and package

in jars or an easily squeezable package. Apply under make up for a more smooth application or as a

night creme.

View Anne-Marie's Victorian Hearts soap recipes as featured in Crafts Magazine.

Easy Lotion Bars


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4 ounces mango or shea butter

4 ounces beesweax, yellow or white

5 ounces liquid oil (jojoba or grapeseed are both excellent)

2 teaspoons of essential oil or fragrance oil

This lotion bar does not use cocoa butter so you can use any fragrance or essential oil that your heart

desires and not have a chocolate over-smell.

Melt the beeswax in a separate container and the butter/oil in another container. Add together, mix

well, stir in FO/EO and pour intocontainers. Mixture will harden in approximately 1-2 hours. The cooler

the mixture is upon pouring it, the less 'divets' you'll get in the bar (that sunken spot at the top of the

bar).

Easy Clay Mask - made with Rhassoul &Bentonite Clays

1 part bentonite clay

1 part rhassoul clay

optional: skin loving essential oil, such as Lavender, Lemongrass or German Chamomile

Mix with water until the mask has a consistency that you like. Apply to body or face and wait for clay

to dry fully. Take off with a warm water washcloth. If all over body, jump in the shower to get off

more quickly than a washcloth.

Butterfly Soaps by T.J. Currey

Materials:

One bar glycerin or lye-based soap (bar#1)

A second bar or scrap of glycerin or lye-based soap in a

different color than bar#1 - big enough to use a cookie

cutter with. Depth should be between 1/4 and 1/2 inch.

3 - 4 drops clear glycerin melt and pour soap

Small, metal butterfly cookie cutter

Soap paint


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1. Decide which bar is to be the main bar (bar #1) and which is to be used to cut out the butterfly.

2. Cut out a small soap butterfly using a metal cookie cutter.

3. Melt a small amount of clear glycerin melt-and-pour soap. Using a plastic dropper, drop 3-4 drops

of glycerin onto bar#1 and carefully press the butterfly against the melted glycerin. Wait approx. 10

minutes for it to cool.

4. Take out your soap paints and start playing. You can paint a sun, little antennae on the

butterfly, spots, grass - anything you desire. In addition, you don't have to limit yourself to just

butterflies! Cut out stars, moons, flowers, etc. using the same procedure outlined in steps 2 and 3 and

then paint to your heart's content.

5. Let paint dry for 24 hours before wrapping.

Cookie Cutter Soaps by T.J. Currey

Materials:

scraps or bars of soap

small metal cookie cutters

small see-thru bags, netting, or tulle for

wrapping

1. Slice a bar of soap into thin (1/8 to 1/4 inch) layers.

2. Position small metal cookie cutters and punch out designs.

3. Carefully push soap out and arrange on a pretty dish in the bathroom. You can take different

colored soaps and make a pretty bag of them tied with a ribbon on top.

(Note: May want to wear kitchen gloves while punching out soaps - the metal cookie cutters are

sharp.)

Chocolate Lipgloss Recipe by Rachel and Jennifer

2 tsp. Petroleum Jelly

1/8 tsp. Honey

10 mini Hershey's Milk Chocolate Chips (any brand will do though)

1/8 tsp. Shortening (Crisco)

Carefully Mix all ingredients into a microwave safe container. Make sure they are all clumped together.

(Do not put lid on) Heat at high power for 20 seconds, stir, then repeat until fully melted. Then pour

into a small bottle, and freeze for 15 min, or until solid. Then you can apply it on your lips!


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Sheer Lipstick Recipe by "T.J."

2 oz. beeswax2 oz.jojoba oil

0.2 oz. aloe butter

2 tsp. zinc oxide

2 tiny scoopers oflip-safe mica.

lip balm flavoring

Hint: This is a very waxy recipe and might do better in a tube than the pots as shown.

Sheer Lipstick Recipe by Anne-Marie Faiola

2 oz. beeswax

2 oz. Grapeseed Oil

1/4 oz. Wheatgerm Oil

2 tsp. Zinc Oxide (by volume - optional - may substitute titanium dioxide)

4 tsp. lip safe mica (by volume)

The zinc Oxide will provide a opaque, matte effect to your lipstick. If you use just mica, you will have

a more sheer lip balm.

Melt the beeswax in a double boiler. Once fully melted, add the Grapeseed and Wheatgerm oil. Pour

your colorant into the double boiler and stir well. Let this mixture sit until mixture begins to thicken

slightly (thus suspending the colorant better) and pour into jars or tubes

Colored Lipstick Recipe by Anne-Marie Faiola

This lipstick is a more waxy lipstick than the Sheer lipstick.

Phase 1

4 oz. Castor Oil

4 oz. Jojoba oil

.5 oz. Beeswax

1 oz. Candelilla wax

1/4 oz. wheatgerm oil


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Colorant phase

8 full teaspoons oflip safe mica

1 oz. Castor, Olive or Wheatgerm oil Hint: Castor provides more shine than Olive or Wheatgerm

Melt the waxes in a double boiler. Once they are fully melted, add the Castor Oil and Jojoba oil. In a

separate bowl, add your mica to the liquid oil of your choice. Mix in well and make sure there are no

clumps. Add the colorant mixture into your double boiler and mix well. Remove this mixture from the

double boiler and let sit until mixture begins to cool and thicken (thus suspending the colorant through

out the lipstick). Once cooled to an appropriate thickness, pour intojars or tubes.

Floating Bath Soak by Camille Pratt

3 oz cocoa butter

1 tbsp creamed coconut

1 tsp almond oil

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp powdered oatmeal

2 drops tangerine EO

Melt cocoa butter in double boiler, remove from heat. Mix creamed coconut, almond oil, honey and

oatmeal, blend well. Add mixture to melted cocoa butter, blend well. Add tangerine EO (or your

favorite EO!), blend in. Pour mixture into ice cube trays, chill until firm. Toss one into tub of running

water and enjoy! Note: Use caution upon exiting tub, it may be a bit slippery. But, oh, what a soak!

Luscious Lip Luster

4.4 oz. Calendula-infused olive oil

1.7 oz. Shea butter

4.9 oz. Emu oil

1.3 oz. Beeswax

Melt beeswax gently over a double boiler (or in the microwave if no double boiler is available). In a

separate container, heat the emu oil up until it is fully liquid. Combine the wax and all the oil, stir well.

Add flavoring (if desired) and pour into containers.


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Bath Jelly Recipe - by Amy Vollmer

1/2 cup melted transparent Melt & Pour base

2 cups water

1 envelope Knox unflavored Gelatin

1/2 oz Germaben II

Fragrance oil

3 or 4 colorants

3 or 4 small containers

Pour envelope of Gelatin into a bowl and set aside. Microwave 2 cups of water until boiling. Gently

pour into the bowl of gelatin and stir until completely dissolved. In the meantime melt the M&P in the

microwave. Add fragrance oil to the melted M&P. Slowly pour the soap into the Gelatin and stir gently.

When mixed thoroughly, pour into individual containers and color. Place uncovered containers in the

refrigerator until firm.

Empty Playdoh containers work perfectly and Bath Jelly can be colored to match the lids! Kids have a

blast with this jelly. They can scoop it out and toss into running water, paint the tub and themselves,

glob onto a scrunchie or washcloth and even bathe with it! The possibilities are endless!

Gardener's Recipe

8 oz. Melt & Pour base

2 T. white cornmeal

1-1/2 T. fine pumice

1 T. bentonite clay

2 tsp. of a citrus essential oil (orange, lemon, etc.) or fragrance

Melt base and scent. Stir in cornmeal, pumice and clay continually until it gets to a point where it will

stay suspended in the soap. By this time, the soap will be quite thick and cool. Pour into molds.

Fragrance Stones

1-1/2 cups flour

1/4 cup salt

1/4 tsp. cornstarch

2/3 cup boiling water


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1 tbls. fragrance oil

Colorant of your choice

Mix all dry ingredients. Heat water in a Pyrex cup in the microwave or on the stove. Add the f/o and

the color to the water. Stir water mixture into flour mixture. Mix as best you can and then knead the

dough with your hands. At this point you just want it to look like pie or cookie dough. Roll it out about

a quarter of an inch thick. Cut into shapes or use cookie cutters. Another option is to stamp the flat

shapes. Let the dough stones dry. They get hard as rocks and will last for months.

Honey Dust

1 cup arrowroot powder (sometimes called "flour")

3 tablespoons honey powder

Mix well together and store in an airtight container. This mixture will get hard if moisture is allowed to

get to it. I also package a small feather duster for this. You may substitute up to 2 tablespoons of the

honey with any flavored powder you have access to. I like to use either vanilla or mango.

Crushed grape seeds and almond oil combine to form a soothing,

refreshing facial scrub.

2/3 cup crushed grape seeds, packed

1/3 to 1/2 cup Almond Oil

1/2 tsp. vitamin E

45-60 drops of fragrance oil

Mix almond oil, Vitamin E and fragrance together in a glass bowl. Add the crushed grape seeds and

mix well. Divvy up into jars. The crushed grape seeds will sink to the bottom - this is normal for

scrubs of this type.

This scented body powder pampers the skin. Its rice-and-chamomile base is reputed for

softening and soothing chapped or sunburned skin.

2 oz. rice flour (or cornstarch)

1 oz. finely powdered white orrisroot (or arrowroot powder)


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1 oz. finely powdered dried chamomile flowers

1 drop lavender essential oil or fragrance oil

2 drops orange fragrance or essential oil

3 drops violet fragrance oil

Combine the above ingredients, mix in the fragrance very well by pressing any lumps down with your

fingers. Sift thoroughly and put into containers.

Sugar, Salt and Nut Scrub

1/2 cup ground almonds

1/2 cup ground oatmeal

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup salt

1/4 cup almond oil

45-60 drops fragrance or essential oil

Variation: Add 2 tablespoons of honey for an extra-moisturizing scrub.

Mix almond oil and fragrance or essential oil together in a glass bowl. Add the sugar, finely ground

almonds and salt together in a separate bowl and mix thoroughly together. Add this mixture to the

almond oil. Mix well with your hands to incorporate and you're done!

Solid Brown Sugar Scrub

4 oz. melted melt and pour soap

8 oz. grapeseed oil or Avocado Oil

3-4 oz. brown sugar

1/2 oz. honey

Fragrance oils or essential oils (20 drops)

Mix your grapeseed oil, honey and melted melt and pour soap together. Add the brown sugar and mix

together with hands. You can add your fragrance or essential oils at any point during the mixing

process. Divvy up into wide-mouthed jars. Wait 24 to 48 hours for the mixture to harden into a semi-

solid mixture.


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Brown Sugar Body Scrub

2/3 cup brown sugar, packed

1/3 - 1/2 cup almond oil

1/2 tsp of vitamin E

45-60 drops of fragrance or essential oil

Mix almond oil, vitamin E and fragrance or essential oil together in a glass bowl. Add the brown sugar

and mix in well. Divvy up into jars and have a great time using it!

Solid perfume is fun and easy to make and is a wonderful idea for a personal, hand-crafted

gift! You'll want some stylish little butter pots to hold your creations and Bramble Berry,

Inc. has a terrific selection. To make your solid perfume, follow these directions:

For a 9 oz. batch (which will fill about 36 pots), you would use, by weight:

2 oz. Beeswax

3 oz. Shea Butter

4 oz. Olive Oil

.5 to 1 oz Fragrance Oil of choice

Melt all fixed oils together, and add fragrance oil to melted oils. Pour mixture into small jars or twist-

up tubes and sell as a solid perfume!

Chunk Soaps are beautiful to behold and lots of fun to make. This chunksoap recipe and photo are by Fabienne Nichols.

First, use freshly made chunks, or ones that have been stored in an airtight baggie- if they're too dry,

this'll cause non-sticking.


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My overpour soap is --don't know the exact temp-- just "below" steaming. Opaque chunks (w/

titanium dioxide) will tend to melt "worse", so be careful, and overpour onto these at a bit lower temp.

I do mostly "random" chunks, so don't worry about placement, but...

Do NOT freeze chunks. This'll get ya moisture, and, as someone points out, changes the soap

somehow. If you're freezing soap to get out of the mold for bars, don't freeze all the way, just enough

to do outside. Best thing is to be patient and let soap harden and shrink a bit. I'm a bit forgetful, and

have left soap in overnight, yuck! So I almost never freeze.

Pour a bit of overpour in the mold (to prevent holes and bubbles on the top), grab a handful of

chunks, spritz w/ rubbing alcohol, and "dump" 'em in. You'll want to spritz RIGHT before you place the

chunks in, or alc will evaporate. A good spray, too, so that it looks wet all over, but don't soak. A FINE

mister helps. Pour in more overpour, grab, spray, dump. Spritz what you've poured in if alcohol has

evaporated when you overpour more. Pour, grab, spray, dump. Repeat. For the 32 oz delta mold,

which I generally use for loaves, I pour a bit about 1/8 full, dump (after spritzing), then fill about 1/2

full, spritz, dump, spritz, dump, etc till full of chunks. This'll let you look at "design", and strategicallyplace some if you're doing different colors, or stir them up a bit to get the look you want. Then do one

more filling pour and dump. If you want the chunks all the way through, have some stick out of the

"top" and trim later.

The alcohol PREVENTS the "bubble" look. It will help the overpour adhere. If you're getting any other

effect from the alcohol, there's another factor involved. It's a pretty automatic, and fast thing after

you do a bunch. If you start to get a skin on the overpour, spritz. If you get a skin on the over pour in

the pouring pot, spritz. I do this with chunks in one hand, alcohol spritzer in the other. Sorta plan the

"design" before you go. I do a lot with marbled chunks, so don't have to worry about one color vs the

other, but if I'm doing a couple different colored chunks, you may want to have one pile of "mixed"ones, but have them separate also, to fill in when the random grab doesn't appear random. You may

grab a handful of mixed, but end up with most of one color...

Remember that a LOT of mp "artistry" is in color. I do opaque chunks with clear overpour, and

transparent colored chunks with white overpour. Sometimes a loaf will not look "right", even though it

was done correctly, it's probably in the colors, contrast, or lack thereof.

It's REALLY not as complicated as I've made it sound. Personally, though, I'd start with chunks in a

smaller bar until you get the technique. That way you won't "waste" 2 lbs. You want the success with

a smaller amount before going to a large loaf.

And don't throw out the "wasted messed up" loaf! Cut it up, and use some of those chunks, maybe

smaller chunks, in a single bar, to get the spritzing and pouring down. Save some for shredding, and

putting shreds in a loaf or bar. (ahh, THAT'S when I do freeze!, but that's another story)


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Shaving Soap

Package this in a wide mouth jar and sell with a shaving brush!

2 pounds Bramble Berry Goats Milk liquid soap base

2 tbs. Calendula, ground

8 oz. melt and pour base

1 oz. of your favorite fragrance

Add melted melt and pour to the goatsmilk base; stir in fragrance oil and ground calendula. Pour into

wide mouth jars; wait 24 hours to harden. Soap will get slightly hard but not hard enough to pour into

individual molds.

Scented Stones

Great as room fresheners! You will need:

One ceramic or glass bowl,

1/2 cup flour (do not use self-rising flour)

1/4 cup salt,

1/2 tablespoon alum (available in drug stores),

1 tablespoon essential or fragrance oil,

2/3 cup boiling water and

food coloring (optional).

In ceramic or glass bowl, thoroughly mix dry ingredients.

Add essential oil and boiling water.

NOTE: scent will be strong, but will fade slightly when pastilles dry.

For colored dough, blend in food coloring one drop at a time until desired shade is achieved.

Blend ingredients to form a ball.

Working with a small amount at a time, roll dough between palms of hands to form small balls.

Note: cover unused dough to keep it from drying out.

Allow pastilles to dry.

Secret Garden Bath Teas

Makes one tea bag.

1 tsp lavender flowers (dried)


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1 tsp rose petals (dried)

1/2 tsp lemon balm (dried)

1/4 tsp rosemary (dried)

1/8 tsp spearmint (dried) (just to give it a bit of a snap)

4 drops lavender EO

2 drops rose EO

1 drop patchouli (spelling?) EO

Mix well, put into heat sealable teabag.

Makes an invigorating bath!

One pound barleyOne pound bran

One pound oatmeal

One pound brown rice

One-half pound bay leaves

One-half pound dried lavender flowers

Boil all of these ingredients in four quarts of rainwater for sixty minutes, then strain the mixture. Use

2 quarts of the liquid for each tub of bathwater. An extra rinse after this herbal bath is unnecessary

and would deprive you of some of its benefits. Follow it with a vigorous

towel drying.

Cleopatra's Milk Bath

Pamper yourself with this luxurious bath!

2 cups powdered milk (dry)

1 Tbsp. dried orange peel

2 tsp. dried lavender flowers2 tsp. dried rosemary

Mix all the ingredients together and pour into a clear glass bottle. Use 1/2 cup of the mixture per bath

- soak for 20 minutes. Tie a ribbon and a sprig of dried flowers to the jar for a ready gift!


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Oatmeal Melt and Pour Soap Recipe

(1) Melt 8 oz. of white/opaque base

(2) Melt 8 oz. of clear base

(3) Optional: Grind up 1/2 oz. of Oatmeal in coffee grinder for a smoother,

lighter exfoliation. Also, the smaller the particle, the easier to suspend in the soap.

(4) Combine the two bases

(5) Add your fragrance oil - approximately 1/2 oz. (Oatmeal, Milk and Honey is a good one!) and stir

in well

(6) Optional: Add colorant

(7) Add the oatmeal and stir. Wait 20 or 30 seconds - is the oatmeal sinking to the bottom of your

bowl/Pyrex or is it staying suspended. If it is staying suspended, skip to step 8

(8) If the oatmeal is sinking, this simply means that your base is not thick enough to support the

oatmeal. Either cover the bowl/Pyrex with saran wrap and wait for the base to cool, or stir the melted

base until it is becomes thick enough to suspend the oatmeal.

(9) Pour your oatmeal soap into molds

(10) Spritz with alcohol to finish the soap and break up any bubbles on the top of the soap

(11) Wait 2 to 3 hours (or even better, overnight!) to pop the soap out of the molds. Wrap with saran

wrap and you're done!

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