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Bath Products / How-to-make Recipes:Bath Products
1. Apple Scented Liquid Hand Soap
You will need:
1-1/4 Cups super concentrate
32 oz distilled water
1/2 Teaspoon green apple fragrance or your favorite apple scent.
8 drops of red or grass green liquid color
1 oz humectant or glycerin (optional)
a stick blender
clear bottles
1 doz pumps
Use distilled (purified is not distilled) water for best clarity in the end product; tap water will add a cloudiness. Use a stick blender to mix in the Super Concentrate, colorant and fragrance. (A stick blender must be used to mix because hand stirring will not mix it in properly.) Mix for about 1 minute. Allow mixture to sit overnight before bottling to give the air time to escape and the mixture will become clear. If you use non-distilled water, it will be cloudy. If you add oils to the mixture then it will be opaque.
(Makes 10- 4 oz bottles or 5- 8oz bottles)
Finish off by decorating with apple stickers or stringing a wooden apple bead onto some raffia and tying it around the bottle.
2. “Juicy” Apple Soap
The MilkyWay apple mold
1lb Basic Soap Noodles
1/3c whole milk
1/3c unsweetened apple juice.
1 tablespoon mango butter
1 tablespoon avocado oil
2tsp apple fiber powder
about ¼ of a little tiny scoop of Soap Crafters Raspberry Red oil-based colorant
jade green liquid color
1 additional teaspoon of avocado oil
Melt the mango butter with the avocado and oil in the microwave. While it is melting, warm up your oven (200 degrees), Fry Daddy (warm), or crock pot (low).
Measure out 1/3 c of the milk and add the melted mango butter and oil to it. Pour this mixture over your shredded soap which you have placed in a crock pot, oven safe dish or Fry Daddy. Cover the container and melt for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
After 45 minutes to 1 hour, check your soap. Stir it well. If it looks fully melted at this point, continue to the next step.
If not, and it is still dry, add 1 tablespoon of milk and stir again. Let it melt for another 15 minutes. If it isn’t super dry, but still needs to melt a bit, stir well and let melt for another 15 minutes.
After soap is fully melted, add ½ the fragrance, apple powder and apple juice; blend well. After it is fully blended, add the other half of the fragrance, apple powder and apple juice and stir well.
Scoop into molds.
If you are putting it into a more detailed mold, put in a small amount of soap at a time and press the soap into the details of the mold. It is kind of like spackling a hole in the wall. You want to fill the spaces so there are very few air pockets. It helps to use a rubber spatula that has been coated with oil.
After you un-mold it, mix the oil-based colorant into 1 teaspoon of avocado oil. Using a paint brush and just a small amount of the color, very lightly brush the color onto the apple part of the soap. It won’t take much. Wipe off any excess. Next put a drop of the jade green color on the bristles of another brush. Paint the leaf part of the mold with that.
3. Sparkling “Cider” Bath Fizzie
Use your favorite bath fizzie recipe or, if you don’t have one click the link below to see how easy they are to make.
http://www.soapcrafters.com/node/257
You’ll also need:
True red or grass green water based powdered color
green apple fragrance or your favorite apple scent
The MilkyWay apple mold
4. Green Apple Lip Balm
What you need:
1 dz lip balm tubes and/or jars
shrink wrap bands for the jars or tubes
pipettes
3 tsp beeswax
9 tsp almond oil
½ tsp green apple flavor
1/8 tsp vitamin e
Melt beeswax with almond oil on low heat just long enough to fully melt beeswax. Turn off the heat and stir in vitamin e and flavor. Using the pipettes, fill the tubes and/or jars.
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