Creative Gifts: Bath Salts

Oct 24, 2018 | mixed media, Uncategorized | 0 comments

DIY bath salts

More DIY Christmas.
Bath salts make an easy group gift -you know that gift that is easy to make in mass and give to large groups. Most people fall back on baking, I don’t bake much–only unless its as a set up for cake decorating. This was my “group” gift this year.

As a crafty person I have large quantities of weird stuff laying around the house. I actually made this batch of bath salts and only had to purchase the baking soda and the sea salt!

I used:
one box of baking soda
one tube of sea salt
half a sachet of lavender
lavender essential oil
glycerin
epsom salts
food coloring

I filled a medium bowl half full with baking soda.
I added 10 drops of glycerin and 5-6 drops of lavender oil.
I blended the glycerine and the oil into the soda, adding more soda as I went until everything was blended and dry.

In a large bowl, I added the baking soda oil mix, the rest of the baking soda, the sea salt, half of my lavender sachet and the Epsom salts.

I had 2 cups of menthol and eucalyptus Epsom salts and 2 cups of plain Epsom salts.

I blended everything together.

I then added a few drops of blue food coloring to a paper towel (I didn’t have purple, so blue it was), and I do mean a few 4 to 6. Then stir the mix with the colored towel. This will transfer a slight color into the mix. The color isn’t needed, it just makes it a bit more “special.”

The bath salts were divided up into baggies and placed into small containers. Easy-peasy, and a nice soothing nice smelling bath for all.