Making a Bath Melt Could Not Be Easier!
A bath melt is definitely one of the easiest toiletry recipes to make yourself at home. They are solid at room temperature and so can be stored in the bathroom cabinet ready to use. The principle is the same for all the recipes - you may find that only the base oil and essential oils change. Use a cookie mould (mold) to set the melt or any other container that you think will give you the correct size. Some moulds (molds) intended for melt and pour soap also make good containers for melts.
Remember when you use the melt, the bath will become slippery so you should always exercise caution when getting in or out - and if you use essential oils do clean your bath thoroughly afterwards as they can discolour the bath!
Pam's Lavender Cocoa Butter & Honey Bath Melt
This was the very first bath melt recipe I invented. The lady it was created for worked with me at the time and suffered from chronic dry skin. She was delighted with the resultsIngredients 85g Cocoa Butter 5g Sweet Almond Oil 5g Honey 5g Powdered oatmeal 2ml Lavender Essential Oil
Place all ingredients except the essential oils into a bain marie over a low heat until melted. A bain marie is a pot of water on the cooker top with another pot inside. You place the ingredients into the smaller pot and allow the heat from the water to melt them. In this way the ingredients do not come into contact with direct heat. For another simple recipe using raw
honey, take a look at the acne page.
Once the mixture has melted remove it from the heat and allow to cool until thick before adding the essential oils. Stir well and then pour into patty tins or something suitable for use as a mould (mold). Cup cake papers can be nice too! Place the melts into the refrigerator to go hard. These bath melts stay fairly soft so you may wish to keep them in the fridge until you need to use them. If you prefer a harder product then leave out the honey from the recipe. To use Crumble a small amount into the warm bath. It is not necessary to use the whole thing in one go (although you can if you want to!) In this way it will last for as many as three or four baths.
To Vary
Use different essential oils
or change the sweet almond oil for something more suited to your skin type. Why not check out the skincare benefits of different
oils suitable for including in bath melts.
Go to the Bathing without Bubbles Page.
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