Bath Salt Recipe

These turned out great, the recipe calls for three cups epsom salt, two cups sea salt, one cup backing soda, 12 drops palmarose, 12 drops lemon, 6 drops lavender essential oil. Mix the salts together in a large bowl mixing by hand. Then store in a glass gar with a thight fitting lid. Put the salt away in a cool dark place for twenty four hours before using. Then run a warm bath and add in a cup of the salts to the bath water and enjoy.

My Cold Cream Recipe

This is how I made it and it turned out great. Two ounces olive oil,teaspoon glycerin, about a ounce of grated bee's wax, one and a half ounces of distilled water, half teaspoon vitamin E oil, about 40 drops of essential oil, orange,bergamot,ylang-ylang, and patchouli. I melted the oils and wax in the microwave, next I heated the water in the microwave until just warm, when the oil mix cooled down just a little, I slowly poured the water into the oil mix one drope at a time while beating constantly with a wire whisk until thick.

My Mouth Wash

This is how I made my my mouth wash. six ounces of water, two ounces of vodka, four teaspoons of glycerin, two drops myrrh essential oil and three drops tea tree oil.

Another Retro Bottle

This is my old avon mouth wash bottle from about the early eighties. This bottle is about twenty five years old now. I keep it filled with my hand crafted mouth wash.

Soap Curing On The Rack

My Shampoo Bars

The recipe for my shampoo bar is 12 ounces coconut oil, 19 ounces olive oil, 12 ounces caster oil,6 ounces lye, 16 ounce water. I used a half ounce of sandalwood and amber fragrance oil to make it smell good. I like the color and the smell , so I am happy with how they turned out and I look foreward to using them over the next year.

My Lavender Soap

I used the same recipe for my lavender soap as I did for the red tea lychee soap. The red tea lychee soap is posted on my side bar. The soap smells great and the color turned out pretty good too, so I am happy with it.

My Soap

This is some of my home made soap. The heart shaped bar is a shampoo bar. The round purple bar is a lavender bar.

My Bubble Bath

I made some bubble bath to put in my retro vanity bottle. The mix is a cup of pure liquid castile soap, a half cup of lavender water, one teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon glycerin, fifteen drops lavender and five drops of spearmint essential oils. It tuned out really good and made a great bath, so I will make it again sometime.

My Retro Vanity Bottle

This is my retro vanity bottle it is about thirty five years old now.

My Rose Lemonade

How to make rose lemonade, fill a jug with ice cold water, add in lemone slices and some rose petals. Then put the jug in the fridge overnight, next day a great tasting rose lemonade.

Rugosa Rose

These are my Rugoa Roses I let them grow wild on my palce. I make rose water out of them, as well as tea, salad, lemonade and flavored water.

Cleansing Grains

This is how I mix my cleansing grains. I mix them in a small bowl and I make just enough to last a day or two. I use lots of roses in my mix, so the color of the grains when wet are a pink color. when I use my own hand crafted rose water in the mix the color of the past is a deeper pink color and it smells wounderful.

Cleansing Grains

These are Rosemary Gladstar's cleaning grains and I use them every day to clean my skin. I keep a big jar of them by my sink. I mix up what I want to use in a little bowl. I mix up just enough to last me a day or two at a time. I mix the grains with rose water. My mix is a cup of ground oats, two cups white clay, quarter cup ground almonds, half cup ground rose petals, half cup lavender buds, and about thirty drops of lavender essential oil added in.

I follow up with a splash of rose water. The rose water mix has a few drops of glycerine added in. You can add in some witch hazel into the mix, if you have oily skin, but it will change the smell of roses.

Lavender Water

There are lots of ways to make lavender water. The way I like it most is to pack a sealer jar with buds and pour a cup or more of boiling water over it. When the seal pops, put the jar in a cool dark place for a few days. Then strain out the buds and it is ready to use. I use it as a last rinse for my hair and I make lotion out of it when done this way. I also freeze it for when I need it in the winter time.

Another way of making it is to take a cup of water and add in about thirty five drops of lavender essential oil, shake it up, put it in a spray bottle and spray away with it.

Another combination is to add a ounce of vodka to a cup of water and add in thirty five or more drops of lavender essential oil.

Lavender water is great to spray on sheets and pillows and around any room.

My Hand Painted Hair Clip

My Sugar Scrub

Sugar scrubs are great for exfoliating skin to uncover your layer of younger looking skin cells. Sugar scrubs are easy to make and use.

The basic recipe is two cups of any kind of sugar to one cup of any kind of oil, thrity five drops of essential oils of your choice.

Just scoop it onto your skin and massage it in, then step into the shower and rinse.

My Face Oil

Four tablespoons olive oil, two tablespoons rose hip oil, one teaspoon glycern, one teaspoon seabuckthorn oil, orange, bergamot, ylang-ylang and patchouli essential oils.

Avocado Conditioing Hair Mask

This a great conditioner for dry hair and ends of longer hair. You apply it to dry hair and cover your head with a shower cap or plastic bag. Keep the conditioner on your head for an hour or two. Then rinse with warm water. You can then air dry your hair for a very conditioned result. If it feels like your hair is too conditioned afterwards just shampoo as usual. The recipe calls for one large avocado, four tablespoons of honey and four tablespoons of rose water. Blind it all up in the blinder until smooth and then apply.

Making Shampoo

I must add that when I make my shampoo, and I add the oil into the mix I never need to use conditioner or hair rinse. If I want a supper conditioning shampoo I will add as much as a whole tablespoon of oil to the mix. If I just want a good shampoo where I don't need to use rinse after washing; I will add as little as half to a whole teaspoon of oil. I always use Coconut oil in my mix. I use virgin unrefined Coconut oil. Coconut oil when unrefined will smell just like a coconut.

Some different ways for making this shampoo are to use Dr Bronner's Lavender soap, add in some Lavender water and a litle coconut oil and colour it a light purple or mouve colour. A lovely mix is a base of orange scented soap with orange water added in and coloured orange, or a pepperment based soap with pepperment water added with a little coconut oil and coloured green. The mixes are endles.