Get the most from your bath

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 07:48 PM

Just add 1/2 - 1 cup of dried milk to your bath water for a softening
and soothing bath.
Milk Bath #2
2 cups dry milk powder
1 cup cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon fragrance oil of your choice
Blend together all ingredients in blender. Add 1/2 cup of mixture to
hot bath water.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 07:50 PM

8 oz. constrach
8 oz. citric acid
16 oz. baking soda
5 to 10 drops fragrant oil
Decorative container
Thoroughly mix cornstarch and citric acid together in a bowl. Add the oil until well blended. Mix in the baking soda. Dry completely. Transfer to container. Directions for use: 1/4 c. to 1/2 c. in bath water.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 07:52 PM

1 cup oil *
1/2 cup honey
1/2 liquid soap (I use the clear and fragrance free ones)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Mix together all of the ingredients and pour into a clean bottle with a tight-fitting stopper or lid. TO USE : Shake (the mixture separates) well before using. Pour 1/4 cup into the bathtub under running water.
MAKES : 16 ounces, enough for 8 baths
* I use Sunflower Oil. You may use any light oil like Sunflower, Sesame,
almond, grape, etc.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 07:54 PM

1/4 cup (60 ml) Jojoba oil
1/4 cup (60 ml) Soybean oil
1 tsp. (5 ml) Honey
1/2 tsp. (2.5 ml) Polysorbate 80 (emulsifier)
35 drops Rosemary essential oil
30 drops Lemon essential oil
10 drops Sandalwood essential oil

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 07:57 PM

12 oz olive oil, shortening, and/or coconut oil
4 oz castor oil
2.1 oz lye
4 oz water
8 oz glycerine
2 oz heavy sugar syrup (three parts sugar to one part boiling water)

Mix lye solution, add to oils, add glycerine and syrup at trace. Allow to set up for several days or longer, freeze, and grate.
Dissolve 2 packets cherry or your choice of color/falvor koolaid in 12 oz. rubbing alcohol
Add grated soap and heat gently.
Heat this and stir till all the soap is dissolved, then kept stirring fairly constantly on low heat till eventually it got to where it skinned over when cooled slightly.
Then add 2 dozen drops of your choice of eo or fo.
Pour into molds and let set until firm enough to cut or unmold. This may take several days.
Let cure several weeks and test ph when it is about 8 or less it is ready to use.
This is a fun recipe and has allot of different variety as their is kool aid packets!

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:00 PM

Ingredients:
1 quart water
1 bar castille soap (grated or flaked)
3 ounces glycerin
5 drops lilac fragrant oil
Directions:

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

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:01 PM

10 3/4 ounces of lye cristals
4 cups cold water
27 ounces coconut oil
34 ounces olive oil
24 ounces of vegetable shortening
1/2 an ounce scented oil
1 heat resistant plastic container
1 enamel or stainless steel pan
1 wooden spoon

Put the lye into the plastic container. Slowly and carefully add the cold water. Stir until the crystals are dissolved, then place the container in a shallow pan of cold water to bring the temperature down to between 95-98 degrees, not more, not less. Use the candy thermometer to keep an eye on the temperature.

Melt the shortening in the enamel pan, and when it's melted, add the coconut and olive oils. This mixture also has to be between 95-98 degrees, so use a second candy thermometer to make sure you get the right temperature.

When both solutions are ready, slowly add the lye solution to the oils mixture, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Keep stirring until the mixture traces (meaning until the spoon, when lifted from the mixture, will be able to trace a design on the creamy surface of the soap, and this design will be visible for a few seconds).

If you have stirred for 30 minutes and the soap still doesn't trace, don't worry. The soap is still usable, but it will take a little longer to harden when placed in the molds.

Before pouring the soap in the molds, add the scented oil and mix. Then pour into the molds. Cover these with a folded blanket and place them on a level surface, sheltered from drafts.

Allow to set for 24 hours, then uncover and allow to set for another 24 hours. At this time, the soap has the consistency of soft cheese, and you can mold it into different shapes if you want. If you want it to be harder, let it set longer, then cut into bars, and let it cure for about two weeks.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:03 PM

Ingredients
2 3/4 cups (400g)grated glycerin soap
orange coloring (can use mace powder (2tsp/10ml) mixed with (4 T/60ml) of veg. oil)
1 teaspoon/5 ml sweet orange essential oil
Pinch each of dried marigold or chamomile flowers and pinch of dried orange zest

Instructions
Melt glycerin soap over low heat in double boiler. Add color as melting nears completion and turn off heat. Stir in essential oil. Pour into molds. Mix in flowers and zest with a toothpick as soap cools in the mold.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:04 PM

1 cup honey
1 cup boiling water
2 cups milk
1/2 cup sea salt
2 Tbsp baking soda
10 drops of vanilla oil
Dissolve sea salt and baking soda in bathwater. Dissolve honey in boiling water, add milk. Add milk and honey mixture to bathwater. Add vanilla.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:06 PM

Ingredients:
1 cup fresh or 1/4 cup dried mint (chop up finely if its fresh)
1 cup fresh bay leaves -finely chopped
1 teaspoon coconut oil
1 teaspoon of almond extract
Directions:
Mix ingredients together then place in a mesh bag such as cheesecloth. Place under hot running water. Sit back & enjoy.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:08 PM

( super size batch)
113 ounces lard
68 ounces crisco
98 ounces coconut oil
48 ounces olive oil
16 ounces soybean oil
48 ounces lye
120 ounces rain or distilled water
2 ounce dry sage and rosemary
1 ounce essential oil mix of sage, rosemary and lemon grass

Grease the molds you wish to use and place to the side.
Infuse oils with sage and rosemary by heating them together till quite warm.
Allow this mixture to sit till cooled to 120-125 degrees.
Pour the oil/fat mixture into the mixing bucket.
Add lye solution slowly and steadily while the mixer is turning.
At thin trace add essential oils. Stir in well.
Pour into molds and cover thoroughly.
Allow to cool 48 hours or more.
Unmold after no more than 5 days, cut and allow to continue to dry until ph reaches at 8 or less.

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:11 PM

Ingredients:
1 cup kosher salt
1 cup baking soda
3 drops Pine balsam essential/fragrance oil
2 drops cinnamon essential/fragrance oil
2 drops cassis essential/fragrance oil
2 tablespoons of glycerin
Directions:
Mix ingredients together blending well. Break up any clumps

**Nightmare** · 05-13-2006, 08:12 PM

This is a good soap for both dry & oily skin...very nourishing!
* 1/4 C. oatmeal
* 1/4 C. rolled barley
* 1 C. glycerin soap base,melted
* 1/4 C. grain slurry**
* 1/2 C. crushed or powdered oatmel (you can make powder in the blender)
* 1 tsp. barley power (see note above)
**To prepare grain slurry- cook (the regular) oatmeal and (rolled) barley in 1/2 C. boiling water at med heat for 15 minutes. Cool and place in a double layer cheesecloth. Squeeze out & collect as much liquid *slurry* as you can, discarding remaining grains.
Mix remaining ingredients well, pour into molds and cool.