A few people asked me to post photos of the gardener spa treatments I made for holiday gifts this year.
I made lavender goat’s milk soap, lavender bath bombs, lavender fizzy bath salts and mint lip balm.
I placed them in this galvanized planter. The paper sack in the back contains warm, fuzzy socks.
I didn’t have time to make “real” soap the old fashioned way (with lye) so I just used this “melt and pour” variety. I ordered it from Wholesale Supply Plus. You melt the soap base in a double boiler, add essential oils for fragrance and color if you wish (I left mine natural) and pour it into soap molds. EASY.By the way, you can add “fragrance oil” which has synthetic ingredients, but I prefer to use pure essential oils so the soaps are more natural and less likely to irritate sensitive people.
You drop one into the bathtub and it explodes into fizzy bubbles. The bubbles release the lavender scent. The kids love these. For a step-by-step video (by Coastal Scents) on how to make these (and the recipe), go here. Be sure to watch the video to the very end to see her blooper when the bath bomb fizzed all over the table. That stuff works.
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Bath fizzies are rather hard to make, I’ve heard, so yours turned out quite nicely, even if you think they’re a bit bumpy.
Oh thanks for telling me that Teresa. I thought I must have just messed up the recipe! It is good to know that others have trouble too. Watching the video helped a lot.
My kids love the bath bombs. They really do “explode” into bubbles when they hit the water…much to the delight of young boys!
I’m bound and determined to make bath fizzies next year…provided I get enough sleep the rest of Dec and some of January.
And yes, you really did do great with the fizzies!