What Bath & Body Thing Have You Done Today?

[MrsZ]

I made conditioner bars today. The first time I made them 3 years ago I wasn't a fan. Apparently my tastes have changed though because I found one of my original bars and have been using it, and I love it.

I also made a small batch of hand cream using kokum butter to replace most of the cocoa butter in the recipe.

I found a tightly sealed jar of lotion/cream base from the DIY B&B recipe that I made in 2021 tucked in the back of my fridge. I wonder if it is still good? It smells totally fine. I think I'll use it to make a small batch just for myself and see how it does.

 

[Tammyfarms]

It's a sugar scrub made with the Foaming Bath Butter recipe from DIY Bath & Body. I love that recipe. As a foaming bath butter, the pH is even suitable for use as shampoo, which is how my daughter uses it. Add sugar and it's a sugar scrub. Add menthol, mint, and salt and it becomes a foot scrub. Add spearmint, tea tree and some jojoba beads and extra fine pumice and it's a facial scrub.

I have been using the sugar scrub as a facial scrub and really like that too. I will eventually make the true facia scrub.

Thank you. It's been a few hours since I made them and the alcohol smell is gone. I just weighed them and they are all right at 30g for now just for reference @Tammyfarms.

If it’s not too much trouble would you give me rough dimensions? Just a width or height measurement. I am thinking of buying some molds for my press and don’t want to buy too big or too small. Just like Goldilocks, I want them to be just right.

 

[dmcgee5034]

I have been using the sugar scrub as a facial scrub and really like that too. I will eventually make the true facia scrub.

Thoughts on regular granulated sugar or castor sugar for the facial scrub version?

 

[Servant4Christ]

If it’s not too much trouble would you give me rough dimensions? Just a width or height measurement. I am thinking of buying some molds for my press and don’t want to buy too big or too small. Just like Goldilocks, I want them to be just right.

These testers that are about 30g each are 1.25" in diameter across the top and 1.75" across the bottom. They aren't quite an inch tall, more like 7/8ths of an inch.

 

[Tammyfarms]

These testers that are about 30g each are 1.25" in diameter across the top and 1.75" across the bottom. They aren't quite an inch tall, more like 7/8ths of an inch.

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!

Thoughts on regular granulated sugar or castor sugar for the facial scrub version?

I am using regular, looked for castor sugar before I made this last batch and my usual store didn’t have it. I may look at another store but honestly the regular is fine, it breaks down pretty fast.
ETA: I made a peppermint scrub that’s amazing on the face. Very invigorating.

 

[AliOop]

I am using regular, looked for castor sugar before I made this last batch and my usual store didn’t have it. I may look at another store but honestly the regular is fine, it breaks down pretty fast.

If you have a spice grinder, you can also grind your regular sugar to be much finer.

 

[Tammyfarms]

If you have a spice grinder, you can also grind your regular sugar to be much finer.

Thanks! I was wondering about that. Will give it a try.

 

[Misschief]

Thank you so much! Merry Christmas!


I am using regular, looked for castor sugar before I made this last batch and my usual store didn’t have it. I may look at another store but honestly the regular is fine, it breaks down pretty fast.
ETA: I made a peppermint scrub that’s amazing on the face. Very invigorating.

Here in Canada, we don't have caster sugar but we do have berry sugar, which is a finer grade of sugar.