Making your own toiletries...

[Lulu]

Um, I'm not sure I get you. The stuff I have on my blog is well and truly tried and true. I don't make many creams and lotions anymore unless I am making them for presents due to volume/non-preservative factor, most of it needs to be kept in the fridge.

Although I have a good face mix that can be kept dry and the liquid added only when you need it. I should get it out of the drafts folder.

[Rouge]

Soaps, liquid soap etc. Shampoos and the like.

I know you're good at it, I'm not that's why I'm asking around Lots of ways to ice a cake... that sort of thing.

[christy]

I do bath stuff too. I do a salt bath mix and an oat tea bag as well.

With my salts I do:

1 kg epson salts
1 tsp bicarb soda
4 drops essential oil (let's say Lavender for this one)
2 drops essential oil (vanilla?)
4 sprigs lavender flower

Mix everything together in a large stainless steel bowl. Pour into glass containers with lids and tie a purple ribbon around it... I also use citrus oils and bergamot, or rosemary oil and cleary sage....

Oat Teabags

I use swiss voil from spotlight that I make little bags with and then tie a nice ribbon that I've sewn in around.

Each bag has: 1/2 cup rolled oats, 1/2 teaspoon bicarb soda, essential oils (4 drops) and 1/2 tsp oil... like Lucy said either avocado oil or sometimes I use cold pressed olive oil.

[Rouge]

OooOoooo that sounds awesome thanks Christy.

Scuse my ignorance but what is swiss voil? Is it a fabric?

[Netix]

I recently bought myself a book on making soaps, in a quicker way than having to let the soaps sit for weeks on end to get the chemical change to happen.

I will dig it out later and see if its got any soaps for sensitive skin, as from memory looking through it, its mostly (from memory, so I could be wrong) based on turning borax or whatever it is into soap (like most soaps are anyway).

[Rouge]

Ooooo Borax?

I heart Borax. It's become my best friend lately when it comes to cleaning. That and bicarb & vinegar.

[Traveller]

I'm going to give the oatmeal in a sock a go for boytwin, thanks

[Netix]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure its Borax... Caustic soda or sodium hydroxide. When combined with distilled water, it thickens (along with essential oil, this part of the process is called Trace), then saponifies (a molecular level activity!), becoming soap. After this point, most soap has to cure, but in the book I have, the soap is finished curing as soon as the soap is finished cooking. This book 'cooks' soap in an hour or so, instead of weeks for 'cold process'.

I meant to say before, I have heard the oatmeal in a stocking trick, but have never tried it. Even though it sounds good.