I just made my first batch of bath salts, using a Humblebee recipe. As Marie would say, “swoon”! I made her Lavender Oats Foaming Bath Salts. Lovely!
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Just finished a large batch of lotions in several different scents. They are all poured into their 4oz containers and ready for labeling tomorrow. Also up tomorrow will be a batch of lip balms, which should go pretty quickly. That's everything needed for the retreat, so I can turn my attention to restocking my house with LS, deo, and shampoo bars. Whew!
Thanks, it is fun to be making stuff again. It’s been months!
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Marie's recipes have worked well for me.
I made a thick cream using the DIY BB concentrate. I added honey, colloidal oats, IPM and hydrolyzed protein. It’s much thicker than lotions I have made before and I think I’m really going to love it.
I’m so happy I bought that formula. It’s so easy to whip up a small batch of lotion.
I’m so happy I bought that formula. It’s so easy to whip up a small batch of lotion.
Me too! I love it!
One of my friends put in a special order for 8 jars of the Foaming Bath Butter, 2 jars of Avocado Mint Foot Cream, and a bunch of lip balms. I made up a batch of the FBB Base yesterday (another fabulous DIY B&B recipe) and made 11 jars of the whipped body wash after work today (four different fragrances). The Avocado Mint Foot Cream is made with the DIY B&B lotion concentrate and the lip balm is a recipe I got from Voyageur years ago.
That’s awesome, for me that would be a lot of product to put together in an evening!
If I do two batches of stuff in a whole day that’s a challenge, well except lip balm or lotion bars. Love how quickly those go together. This may seem like a silly question but I keep hearing the accolades for the foaming bath butter, how is it used? Is it scooped out of the container and rubbed on your skin? In the bath or shower? Does it work like a bubble bath? So many questions.
The Foaming Bath Butter base can be used to make a whipped bath soap. My friend loves it because almost all other soap makes her itchy, sometimes to the point of bleeding (she scratches without even realizing she's doing it). The base is whipped with added oil(s), fragrance, and colour then piped into tubs. A small scoop on a bath puff is enough to wash your entire body. And, bonus, the final body wash is the right pH for shampoo so it can be a full body wash, head to toe. My daughter uses it as her primary shampoo on her coloured hair and loves it. Between my daughter and my friend, I can't make enough.That’s awesome, for me that would be a lot of product to put together in an evening!
This may seem like a silly question but I keep hearing the accolades for the foaming bath butter, how is it used? Is it scooped out of the container and rubbed on your skin? In the bath or shower? Does it work like a bubble bath? So many questions.
The base can also be used to make scrubs (sugar scrubs, salt scrubs). The booklet has a recipe for a Tea Tree & Spearmint Facial Scrub. It's awesome and your skin feels so good after using it. As far as I'm concerned, the Lotion Concentrate and the Foaming Bath Butter are two of the must have recipes.
Here's a pic of the four "flavours". From left to right: Satsuma, Energy, Green Apple, and Lavender. The open sample pot is Energy.
Thank you! Now I must buy that formula.
Love that picture of your products. You take beautiful product pictures. 
I made my own "bum bum cream". Caffeine extract, IPM, hydrolozed oats, panthenol, vit E. The oils are a mix of cupuacu, safflower, and cocoa butter. It's scented with Scent memory's Black plum & creme de cassis, so it smells darn close to the store bought ones. I poured it into this nice TJs flip top container from their own version of it. I love this container it's so easy to use, and I'm holding onto it because I haven't seen them being sold anywhere for DIYers.
I made a lovely batch of Pumpkin Spice anhydrous body butter! I'm gifting some of it to loved ones, but mostly I just made it for me. Fall is my favorite time of year! 
Looks amazing, @Misschief - I have the recipe but haven’t gotten to try it yet. Your post is tempting me!
It's a great product!Looks amazing, @Misschief - I have the recipe but haven’t gotten to try it yet. Your post is tempting me!
Last night I put together 20 bubbling bath bombs. My horse trainer buys them 10 at a time. I really only sell to friends and she is by far my best customer. I haven’t used any color as I don’t want them staining the tub. If anyone wants to reassure me this won’t happen I welcome those comments. I don’t use FO or EO as these cure in my house and I can’t have FO or EO hanging around in the house. Plus, she has a supply of EOs at her home and adds some directly to her bath when using the bombs. I use a healthy amount of SLSa and FCO so they provide some moisture and bubbles. They have the added benefit of leaving your tub clean. 
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The patience to do this... you're my idol. I have tried bath bombs exactly four times with zero success. Slight exaggeration, because the first two batches crumbled to powder within 24 hours, and the last two batches "bloomed" out while "drying" with only the fourth batch still having fizz left enough that I used them for testing purposes. (Third batch had no fizz left.) Someday I'll get back to attempting them...
I'm still working on the body wash formula. I increased the glycerin by 2% (taken from the water)... and I think that increase moved the glycerin from moisturizing to drying. Our weather is still acting like summer, so it's not a change in season (yet) causing dry skin, so I assume the glycerin is the culprit. The glycerin increase did make the body wash thicker, which is what I was hoping for. The next attempt will be going back to the original formulation and adding 1% xanthan. Fortunately, I have a daughter who is happy to test out my body wash experiments. As a side note, she requested a pumpkin fragrance. I had a sample of AFI Vanilla Pumpkin Marshmallow... it's delicious. If you can use the 10lb size that AFI sells, I highly recommend this one.
Other experiment: still working on a BTMS-25 conditioner bar. At 60% BTMS-25, it was a bit waxy, but won points for detangling and shine. I'm going to remove coconut oil from my next attempt and increase the mango butter to replace it. I'm hoping that increasing the butter will offset some of the waxiness.
Bath bombs took a lot of testing and many failures. I am using a bubbling bath bomb recipe from Swift Crafty Monkey that is really nice. I live in a climate that is dry in the summer and more humid in winter. And these have performed well.
I haven’t tried making a body wash yet and conditioner bars are on my list of things to work on next. I have made a few conditioner bars but wasn’t happy with them so they went on the back burner. I have been working on a shampoo bar for oily hair and may have that dialed in but need another few weeks of testing to make sure.
A friend of mine sells gift baskets and her business in ramping up for the holidays. She ordered one large bottle of lotion in an upgraded ceramic container; one small in a regular plastic pump; one large in a regular plastic pump; and two more large in decorative jars. All were fragranced in Sandalwood Vanilla, which seems to be the current favorite (last year's fave was a coconut-lavender blend).
Below is a picture of the decorative ceramic container, and four of the $1.25 jars from Dollar Tree. They work well with these pumps from Amazon that are just over $2.14 each and should arrive Monday. The two extra jars with the pale orange lotion were made with red palm oil and are scented with OT's Peche de Vigne. Those will be Christmas gifts.
While my friend was picking up the lotions today, she asked if I made shower steamers (I do) and bath soaks (I do). Let's just say, I'm going to busy over the next few weeks!
Below is a picture of the decorative ceramic container, and four of the $1.25 jars from Dollar Tree. They work well with these pumps from Amazon that are just over $2.14 each and should arrive Monday. The two extra jars with the pale orange lotion were made with red palm oil and are scented with OT's Peche de Vigne. Those will be Christmas gifts.
While my friend was picking up the lotions today, she asked if I made shower steamers (I do) and bath soaks (I do). Let's just say, I'm going to busy over the next few weeks!
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