Dream Bath Salt Soap and Perfume Recipes: October 2012

Desert Sands Layered Bath Salts

Always a pretty gift to give.

5 drops yellow food coloring

4 drops red food coloring

4 drops musk oil

3 drops Jasmine fragrant or essential oil

3 cups Epsom salts

1 cup baking soda

2 tsp. glycerin

Combine baking soda, Epsom salt and glycerin until well blended. Add scents

until there are no clumps, just a fine powder. Divide the mixture evenly

into 3 separate bowls. In the first bowl add 3 drops yellow food coloring,

in the second bowl add 3 drops red food coloring, and in the third bowl add

2 drops yellow food coloring and 1 drop red food coloring. Stir each bowl

until the color is well mixed. Allow the air to dry it for a few hours

before placing in a bottle. Once dried, layer the colors... red first, then

orange, then lastly yellow.

Dream Weaver

Cucumber Loofah Soap

3 oz. opaque soap

2 tsp. powdered loofah

15 drops cucumber fragrance oil

1 T. Aloe Vera gel

green coloring

A mold

Shred the soap in a food processor and set aside. Boil 1/2 cup of water over

low heat and stir in the shredded soap. Continue stirring until the mixture

becomes a sticky mass, approximately four minutes. Remove from heat and

stir in the aloe Vera gel, the fragrance oil and the coloring until well blended.

Spoon the mixture into a mold and let set for six hours or until hardened.

Wrap finished soaps in cellophane.

Dream Weaver

Coffee & Cream Soap

One of my Favorites.

1 4oz. bar glycerin soap

1 teaspoon ground espresso

1 teaspoon powdered milk

10 drops coffee fragrance oil

In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the bar of glycerin soap until

liquefied. Remove from heat and stir in ground espresso, powdered milk,

and coffee fragrance oil. Pour soap into a mold and let set for three hours

or until hardened.

Makes a great gift.

Dream Weaver

Ancient Soap

An excavation of ancient Babylon revealed evidence that Babylonians were making soap around 2800 B.C. Babylonians were the first one to master the art of soap making. They made soap from fats boiled with ashes. Soap was used in cleaning wool and cotton used in textile manufacture and was used medicinally for at least 5000 years.

The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) reveals that the ancient Egyptians mixed animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to produce a soap-like substance.

According the Pliny the Elder, the Phoenicians used goat's tallow and wood ashes to create soap in 600 BC. Early Romans made soaps in the first century A.D. from urine and soap was widely known in the Roman Empire

The Celts made their soap from animal fat and plant ashes and they named the product Saiph from which the word soap is derived.

Citrus & Calendula Soap

You will need:

1 # M & P transparent soap base

A handful of calendula petals (dried) , about 1/4 cup

15 drops of yellow food coloring

3/4 tsp. grapefruit EO

1/2 tsp. tangerine EO

1 TBSP melted shea butter ..melted separately

Melt the soap base and at the same time melt the Shea butter in a custard

cup placed in a pan of boiling water or in the microwave. Add Calendula

petals to the melted base, a few drops of yellow food coloring, the EO and

then the melted Shea butter. Try to have this the same temp as the melt

and pour. Keep stirring the soap/Shea butter mixture. As it starts to set up

spoon into heart molds. ( By spooning you have more control how many of the

Calendula leaves go into each mold.) I like to let my molds set at room temp

until them are skimmed over fairly firm then I chill them in the freezer for

about a half hour before removing them from the mold and place them on a

rack to finish drying completely.

This is a very pretty soap. Makes 8 heart soaps. Enjoy!!!!

*****By stirring the soap/Shea butter mixture as it cools the butter will

not float to the top and make little circles of butter which might look like

mold to those that don’t know.

Basil and Lime Bath Salts

This is a good recipe and they make great Christmas Gifts.

You will need:

5 cups of Sea Salt (or Epsom salt, or a combination of both)

1 Tsp. of Baking Powder

2 Tsp. of Almond Oil

5 drops Lime Scented Oil

4 drops Basil Oil

1 drop green coloring

1 drop yellow coloring

All you have to do is mix the salt and the baking powder in a bowl. In a

another smaller bowl mix together all liquids and add to salts, stirring

well. You should let them sit so they can soak up the scent and the coloring

all of the way through. After they have sat for about two hours take them and

place them in jars with cork stoppers. To create a good seal dip the cork in melted

wax (green to match salts) and put cork into bottle.

Chocolate Cookie Soap

Chocolate Cookie Soap

You will need:
1 lb. Opaque MP
1 TB. Cocoa butter
Cocoa powder for colorant (or brown dye)
1 TB. Chocolate FO
Round or cookie molds

Melt the MP soap. Remove from heat and slowly stir in the cocoa butter and
enough cocoa powder to make it a pale brown or tan. Add fragrance oil.
Reserve enough of the soap to make a darker brown color. Pour the lighter
shade of brown soap into round/cookie molds. Add more cocoa powder to the
reserved batch of MP base to make a darker brown. Marble into the pale
brown soap.

Cranberry Bubble Bath

8 oz. unscented liquid soap

2 oz. distilled water

7 drops bergamot oil

5 drops lime oil

3 drops vanilla fragrance oil

2 drops gardenia fragrance oil

Mix all together and pour into a container.

Cookie Cutter Soaps

Melt and Pour soap base(opaque)

Scent (optional)

Color (must be liquid, like gels)

cookie sheet (must have at least a 1/2 in. edge on it)

knife (to swirl your colors!)

cookie cutters

Melt down the soap base and scent. You can give the main base a color if

wish or leave it white. Pour the base on the cookie sheet and add colors and

swirl them all over - be creative! When this dries, pop the block of soap

out of the cookie sheet. Use cookie cutters to cut up the soap.

There are lots of different things you can do with this... Some ideas:

Christmas Soap: Swirl red & green into white and use cookie cutters

Candy Cane Soap: Swirl red into white with peppermint scent and candy cane

cutters

Easter/Spring: Swirl multiple pastels and find some fun cookie cutters

4th of July: Patriotic white soap with a beautiful red & blue swirl (find a

nice star cutter!

Natural Hair Cleaning Shampoo

Hair Cleaning Shampoo (Removes Impurities from Hair)

3/4 cup distilled water

1/4 cup shampoo concentrate (or substitute with 1/2 cup unscented shampoo

and increase salt to 1 tsp.)

1/2 tsp. table salt

1 tbs. dried thyme

1 tbs. dried peppermint

1 tbs. dried lavender

1 tsp. witch hazel

1 tsp. almond oil

7 drops cinnamon oil

3 drops ylang-ylang oil

This shampoo is known to be effective in removing impurities such as smog

and city grime from the hair. In a heavy saucepan, bring the water to a

boil and add the dried thyme, peppermint and lavender. Remove the pan from

the heat and let steep for 30 minutes. Strain the herbs from the water and

pour the herbally infused water into a ceramic bowl. Add the shampoo

concentrate and stir until well mixed. Add the salt, witch hazel, almond

oil, cinnamon oil and ylang-ylang oil to the mixture, stirring until thick.

Bottle and close.

Chocolate Soap

12 oz grated soap

5 oz water

1/4 cup instant cocoa powder

1/8 oz Chocolate Fragrance oil

Combine the grated soap and water in a saucepan, and set on medium heat.

When the soap has melted, add the cocoa powder, and chocolate fragrance.

Stir well, then pack into molds and let sit until hardened.

Cherry Cheesecake Soap

(Makes Two 4-1/2 inch cakes - 4 slices each)

1-1/2 lbs. White M & P Base

1/2 lb Clear M & P Base

2-1/2 tsp. Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Fragrance

1 tsp. Blending Vanilla

1 Tbs. Cherry (not Maraschino) Fragrance

Dash of Lemon Fragrance

Red Colorant

Green Colorant

Yellow Colorant

1-2 Tbs. Finely Ground Oatmeal

Life of the Party Mold - AO52

4-1/2 inch spring form pans

Melt 1/2 lbs white base. Add sufficient coloring to make as dark red as

possible, add 2 tsp of Cherry fragrance. Pour at least 30 "cherries" in the

mold (it looks like it makes two halves of a 1 inch Christmas ball). Allow

to cool, Pop out and set aside.

Melt 4 oz of clear base. Add 2 drops of green and 2 drops of red colorant.

Will turn brown. Add 3/4 tsp of Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Fragrance. Mix in

oatmeal. Pour evenly into two of the spring form pans.

Melt 1 lb of white base. Add a few drops (only) of yellow colorant. Add

1-3/4 tsp of OM&H Fragrance, 1 tsp of blending vanilla (will add amber glow)

and a small dash of lemon fragrance.

Mist brown base with alcohol and pour creamy base evenly into pans - be sure

to leave about 1/4 to 1/2 inch head room. Allow to cool about 20 minutes

until surface is fairly solid.

Spray top of "cake" and bottom of "cherries with alcohol.

Arrange about 15 cherries on each cheesecake. Melt 4 oz of clear base. Add

red colorant to make deep red, add 1 tsp of Cherry Fragrance. Spoon over

cherries, covering them and allowing excess to flow around them.

Allow cakes to cool about 30 minutes. Pop spring form pan and enjoy.

Cherry Berry Bubble Bath

1/2 cup unscented shampoo

3/4 cup water

1/2 tsp. salt (regular table salt is fine)

15 drops cherry fragrance oil

Pour shampoo into a bowl and add water. Stir gently until well mixed. Add

salt, and stir until mixture thickens. Add cherry fragrance oil and place

in decorative bottle. Can also be used as a body wash!

Champagne Bubble Bath

1/4 C foaming concentrate

3/4 C distilled water

1/2 tsp. table salt(not sea salt)

1 TBSP. glycerin

1/4 tsp. Champagne or white wine fragrance oil

Buy a bottle of champagne- drink it or toss it but keep the bottle. Heat

water(not boiling just hot), stir in concentrate and glycerin until completely

dissolved. Add fragrance oil and stir well. Add salt stirring until dissolved. Allow mixture to

cool. If it is not as thick as you would like add another 1/4 tsp. salt stirring until

dissolved. Pour into a clean champagne split and seal bottle. Using a pink or white

paint pen create labels for the front and back on gold stickers. with a square

of candy foil cover the cork, twisting at the neck.

Candy Cane Swirl Soap

You will need:

½ lb. MP opaque base

1 tsp. Stearic acid

red colorant

Candy Cane fragrance oil

candy cane cookie cutters

wax paper lined pan or tray

**you could also use the Wilton mini cake pan candy cane mold**

Melt the MP base and stearic acid separately. Combine them when they are

both liquefied. Whisk well. Add the fragrance oil and pour into a wax paper

lined pan or tray. Take a bit of red coloring (just a bit on the tip of the

toothpick) and swirl into the soap until it is marbleized. When it is firm

enough, take cookie cutter and cut out candy cane shapes.

These are great for Christmas!!!

Candy Cane Bath Salts

Ingredients:

3 cups of Epsom salts

3 Teaspoons of Sweet Almond Oil

9 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil

1 drop of red food coloring ( more if you like)

1 drop of green food coloring

To decorate:

You could use several jars with turn lids or cork seals

red, green and white Christmas ribbon

several gift tags shaped like candy canes OR

several candy canes (small ones)

To make the salts separate each of the three cups of salts into three bowls.

Separate each teaspoon of almond oil into three bowls.

Into one bowl of almond oil add the drop of red food coloring, into the

second add the green. Into each of the three bowls of oil add three drops of

peppermint oil. Mix each bowl well.

After mixing pour each of the bowls of oils

and coloring into one of the bowls of salt. This will leave you with a bowl of

green a bowl of red and a bowl of white scented salts. Let sit for a few hours covered.

To create the candy cane effect layer layers of each color, a layer of red,

a layer of green , a layer of white, over and over until you fill the jar.

Bridal Bath Salts

(in 4 layers ~ makes 16oz.)

2 Cups Rock Salt

1/2 Teaspoon of Each Fragrance Oil

Rose, Sage, Lavender, Rosemary

Food Color

Divide salt into four equal amounts, place each in a container with sealable

lids. That’s 1/2 cup in each container or for 8 ounces of bath salts use 1/4

cup in each container and half the amount of fragrance oil and food color.

Add 1/2 teaspoon Rose fragrance oil and 4 Drops of red food color (or you

can leave it white), put lid on and shake well. To the next one add 1/2

teaspoon Chamomile-Sage (or just sage if you have it) and 4 drops of green

and 2 drops of blue food color and shake. To the third add 1/2 teaspoon

Lavender fragrance oil, 3 drops of red and 4 drops of blue food color and shake well.

To the last container add 1/2 teaspoon Rosemary fragrance oil, 4-8 drops of green food color and shake.

On separate pieces of wax paper, spread out each color and air dry for

several hours. When the salt is completely dry layer it in the container.

Rosemary ~ Lavender ~ Sage ~ Rose (on top) To speed up the drying process

you can put the wax paper on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven and let

the pilot light work on it or for an electric oven, pre-heat at lowest temperature and turn off before putting salt in the oven.

You have just made lovely layered bath salts that also has special

meaning.

Red Rose - Means Unity White Rose - Represents Pure Spiritual Love

Sage - Represents Good Health and Long Life Lavender - Means Devotion

Rosemary - Lasting Friendship and Remembrance

Bath Bombs / Bath Fizzes

2 tbs. citric acid (you can get this at a pharmacy)

2 tbs. cornstarch

1/4 cup baking soda

3 tbs. coconut oil (or any other emollient oil like almond, avocado or

apricot kernel oil)

1/4 tsp. fragrance oil

3-6 drops of food coloring (if desired)

Paper candy cups

Place all of the dry ingredients (first 3) into a bowl and mix well. Place

coconut oil into a small glass bowl and add fragrance and food coloring.

Slowly add oil mixture into dry ingredients and mix well. Scoop up small

amounts of the mixture and shape into 1" balls. Let the balls rest on a

sheet of waxed paper for about 2 to 3 hours, then place each ball into a

candy cup to let dry and harden for 24 to 48 hours. Store bombs in a

closed, air-tight container. To use, drop 1 to 3 bombs into warm bath

water.

Bath Cookies Bath Salts

2 cups finely ground sea salt

1/2 cup baking soda

1/2 cup cornstarch

2 tbs. light oil

1 tsp. vitamin E oil

2 eggs

5-6 drops essential oil

Preheat oven to 350 F. Mix together all the ingredients. Take a teaspoon

of the dough and roll it gently into a ball about 1" in diameter. Continue doing this with all the dough and place the balls on an un-greased cookie sheet. (You can decorate the cookies with clove buds, anise seeds, or dried citrus peel if you wish.) Bake the cookies for 10 minutes, until they are

lightly browned. Do not over bake. Allow the cookies to cool completely.

To use, drop 1 or 2 cookies into a warm bath and allow to dissolve.

Do not eat! Yield: 24 cookies, enough for 12+ baths.

Easy Basic Bubble Bath

Easy Basic Bubble Bath

Ingredients:

5 drops fragrant oil or essential oil (your

choice)

1 quart water

1 bar castille soap (grated or flaked)

1 1/2 ounces glycerin

Directions:

Mix all ingredients together. Store in a container. Pour in running water.

Aspen Dreams Bath Salts

This scent is very woody, and is suited for soothing your muscles and

relaxing in the tub. It is very masculine in scent, I think. I enjoy this

after a long day at work, it makes me feel comfortable and content. Women

love it as well as men do.

The ingredients are:

2 cups of Epsom salts (or a mixture Epsom/sea)

2 tablespoons of baking soda

essential oils:

5 drops of rosewood

2 drops cedar wood

2 drops Chamomile

a nice jar with a tight fitting lid

To make the salts:

Mix the salts and baking soda in a bowl very well.

Mix oils in a small cup. Take them and pour them evenly over the salt.

Mix the two very well.

Let sit for over an hour before placing in a jar and sealing.

If you are going to color these use yellow and red to make a light brown.

Apricot Freesia Soap

Apricot Freesia Soap/Tart

Ingredients For Soap/Tart

1 lb White Glycerin Soap Base

12 Drops Cosmic Color Canary Yellow

11 Drops Cosmic Color Red

1 t. Apricot Freesia Oil

Ingredients For "Whipped Cream" Topping:

4 oz White Glycerin Soap Base

¼ t. Apricot Freesia Oil

A "Shake" of Super Sparkle Gold Sparkle Dust

Melt soap base in a double boiler.

Once melted, add color and fragrance.

Pour into a muffin tin and allow to harden.

Remove from tin.

Melt soap base for topping and add a shake of Sparkle Dust.

With an electric mixer, mix until thick and bubbly.

Spray tarts with rubbing alcohol and spoon the topping onto the tarts while

allowing some to run over tarts.

Top with a dash of Sparkle Dust if desired.

Ancient Soap

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