Bath Beauty - Oatmeal Mask

Bath Beauty - Oatmeal Mask
Ah yes our love of oatmeal continues. Here we have our oatmeal mask, it has all the benefits of an oatmeal bath but for your face! How delightful.

Ingredients
1 Cup Pink Clay
2 Tablespoons of Oat Flour (ground oatmeal)
1 Tablespoon Chamomile Flowers, ground
1 teaspoon finely ground Rose Hip Seeds

Instructions
Mix all ingredients together
Store in an airtight container.
To use take about 1-2 Tbsp of the mask
Add enough distilled water to get a paste consistency
- Tip - You can add additional mask ingredients for varying effects! Here is an example
Use Pure lemon juice diluted in water (restores skins natural acid mantle)
1 tsp honey (for moisturizing)
Add a couple drops of Tea Tree oil ( for antibacterial)

You Should experiment with different types (please use caution, if you are allergic to something don't put it on your face or in your mask, that's just silly). You can always mix everything together, with your added special ingredients. And sell them! Your friends will never know how you get that amazing skin, but now they can too with your home made oatmeal mask!

Bath Beauty - Oatmeal Milk Bath

Bath Beauty - Oatmeal Milk Bath
Oatmeal Milk Baths are great for soothing skin irritations.

Ingredients:
1/2 cup of milk powder
1/4 cup of oatmeal
1 Tablespoon of hazelnut oil
6 drops of lavender oil
1 muslin bag

Instructions:
Mix the milk powder, hazelnut oil and lavender oil in a small bowl until thoroughly combined
Then put your oatmeal in a muslin bag
Secure the top
Run your bath
Add the combined mixture directly under the warm running water
Drop the muslin bag of oats straight into the tub itself and enjoy

An oatmeal milk bath is a great way to help soothe any skin irritations you might have. This is also good for removing dry skin and is a good way to leave your body feeling refreshed! I highly recommend this, and of course tell your friends about it. You never know you could turn out to be the resident Bath Beauty Recipe Expert!

Bath Beauty - Dry Shampoo

Bath Beauty - Dry Shampoo

- Tip - When you are camping our not around a fresh water supply but would still like to have the feeling of just showered hair, or at least cleaner hair then what you have got then Dry Shampoo is the way to go. It's easy to get supplies for and easy to use, no more 4 day unwashed hair feeling!

Ingredients
1/2 cup cornstarch
Fragrance oil (optional)

Instructions
Sprinkle cornstarch into your hair
Massage into hair and scalp
Allow it to absorb for a few minutes
Brush through hair
Repeat if necessary

- Tip - If you would like your hair to smell like something add a drop of two of you favored fragrance oil to the corn starch before applying. This way you will be freshened up AND nice smelling.

This is a great way to clean that hair up in a rush, especially if you are going on long trips or going camping and are unsure of whether or not there will be fresh water around to use liquid shampoo! You can always keep some in your car for emergencies!

Bath Beauty - City Hair Shampoo

Bath Beauty - City Shampoo
City Shampoo is shampoo that is designed for people who live in cities. It helps to remove smog and god knows what else that your hair might have picked up. This is a MUST for you city lovers!

Ingredients
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

Instructions
In a heavy saucepan, bring the water to a boil
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
Pour the herbally infused water into a ceramic bowl
Add the shampoo concentrate
Stir until well mixed
Add the salt, witch hazel, almond oil, cinnamon oil and ylang-ylang oil to the mixture
Stir until thick
Bottle and close

Yes there are a lot of ingredients but if you live in a city they shouldn't be hard to come by at all. If you live in an apartment building you can put up signs talking about this great shampoo and how it restores your hair and removes all the gunk from city living from it. You might make a nice side income from this alone, at least enough to possibly afford that nice loft you've been eyeing.

Bath Beauty - Euphoric Bath Salts

Bath Beauty - Euphoric Bath Salts!

Who would want an exhilarating bath? That's what they are there for isn't it? Baths are meant to be relaxing but now they can also be euphoric. And what better way than with Euphoric bath salts!

Ingredients
Sea Salt--3 tbsp
Baking Soda--3 tbsp
Essential Oils--8 drops
Jar--4 oz
Choose 3 or 4 oils from these essential oils:
Champaca absolute
Clary Sage,
Grapefruit
Jasmine absolute
Linden absolute
Myrrh
Patchouli
Rose
Ylang Ylang

Instructions
Add sea salt, baking soda and oils to jar
Gently shake to mix
-Tip - Mix well!
Add to tub of running water

In order to completely compliment your bath desires you can always add some candles for a nice low level lighting effect and put some nice soft music on. Whatever your preference. This is a good idea for yourself or your lover if you want to be romantic. I will have tons more of these ideas coming up so keep you eye out! Happy Bathing everyone!

Bath Beauty - Apple Tart Soap

Bath Beauty Recipe - Apple Tart Soap!

OK its time to make our own soap. There are lots of different soaps and today I am going to give you the home recipe for making your own apple tart soap! Don't worry I will get around to posting other "flavors" as well in case apple tart isn't exactly the type of soap you want. Here we go!

Apple Tart Soap

Ingredients
4oz. Clear, Unscented Glycerin Soap
1 Tablespoon Liquid Soap
1 teaspoon Liquid Glycerin
1/2 teaspoon Apple Fragrance Oil
2 Drops Red Food Color
1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon

Instructions
Melt soap in small pan over low heat or in a glass cup in the microwave.
Add Liquid Soap and glycerin and stir gently but well.
Add fragrance, color and cinnamon.
Stir and let stand a couple minutes.

- Tip - Let it stand just enough to start to thicken so when you stir again the cinnamon will be more evenly distributed.

Pour into molds.
Allow to set completely (in or out of freezer).
Wrap in plastic wrap or use cellophane candy bags.

That's it your done! Couldn't be simpler. You always think it might take more than this to make soap but it sure doesn't! And remember if you make a lot you can always sell some to your friends and neighbors!

Bath Beauty - Champagne Bubble Bath

Bath Beauty - Champagne Bubble Bath

- Tip - Everyone loves bubble baths, why not make it a little extra special by making it a 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 split 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.

- Tip - 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 while twisting at the neck

It may not be spectacular but it is quite nice and definitely spices up the night. Besides who wouldn't like a "champagne" bubble bath?