Author: Claire

Christmas Gift Ideas
Contributed By: Lily

What you will need: Citric acid (you can buy small amounts from the supermarket but if you want to make a lot- it is probably cheaper to buy the larger quantity from the health food stores- maybe you could go halves with someone), bicarbonate of soda, Epsom salts (also from the supermarket), essential oils, food coloring, a bowl for mixing the ingredients, a glass container with a tight seal for storing the tingles, a wooden spoon and a measuring cup.
What to do:
Place 1 cup of bicarbonate of soda, 1 cup of citric acid and 1 cup of Epsom salts in the bowl and mix.
Place 4 drops of selected essential oil and a few drops of food colouring into the ingredients and mix through. The few drops of food colouring will clump; keep on mixing the clumps until they are tiny but still separate from most of the mixture. Multiple colours look nice but be careful not to overmix
Store the tingles in an airtight container and decorate.

Bath Tingles

What you will need: Citric acid, bicarbonate soda,
essential oil, food colouring grape seed oil, small moulds,
cellophane, a bowl for mixing, wooden spoon and a measuring cup
What to do:
Place 1 cup of bicarbonate of soda and 1 cup of citric acid in a bowl and mix
Place 4 drops of selected essential oil and a few drops of food colouring into the blend and mix through
Measure ½ cup of grape seed oil and mix together with the other ingredients. It will mix up into firm dough.
Using a spoon fill the moulds with the mixture and using the backside of the spoon firmly pack in place.( I use ice cube moulds and it works really well)
Set aside to dry(overnight)
When dry invert the mould gently and the bath bombs will ease out of the mould
Take a sheet of cellophane and cut to the size of the mould. Wrap the mould with the cellophane (if you use the ice cube moulds they end up looking like big lollies.
The bath bombs can be decorated with curling ribbon and stickers of your personal choice.

Bath Bombs

EGERIA

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