Bath Melts
Bath Melts are fruit or nut butter melts for soaking in the tub. The added ingredients will leave your skin soft, detoxified and smelling terrific. This particular batch I made for Valentine's Day presents. You can scent them with any essential oil or fragrance and make them in any mold, even an ice cube tray!
This is a kid safe project and the results are kid safe too. And what parent doesn't love things that will get your kids in the tub!!
Ingredients
This is a pretty simple and quick project. You'll need the following:
- 1/2 cup Shea butter, cocoa butter, mango butter (any solid at room temp fruit or nut butter). For this project I used Shea butter.
- 4 tbsp Citric Acid
- 6 tbsp Oatmeal (any kind is fine.)
- 1/2 cup baking soda (Sodium bicarbonate /sodium hydrogen carbonate / NaHCO3)
- 1 teaspoon chocolate fragrance oil. (Or any fragrance oil...essential oils may require much less, depending on the EO used.)
- Something to use as a mold. This batch is about perfect for filling a standard ice cube tray.
Method
- Grind oatmeal and add dry ingredients
- I used a food processor to make this entire batch, but you can do the grinding in a coffee grinder, or if you happen to have a mill in your back yard, throw it under the stone and spur on the donkeys. Whatever method you use, you want the oatmeal to be ground fine enough to be kind of fluffy.
- Then add each of the other dry ingredients, mixing well between additions.
- After all the dry ingredients have been added, blend well.
- Melt your butters, on medium heat in the microwave for about 90 seconds, checking after 1 minute. If, at the end of 90 seconds, you still have a few solid bits, stirring should melt them.You don't want your oils to get so hot that they start to cook.
- Once the oils are melted, stir in the fragrance oil.
This recipe was kindly supplied by Gracefruit. You can find all the ingredients for this recipe at www.gracefruit.com
