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Making bath salts is great to keep for yourself or to give as gifts. Plus with a little creative packaging you can start your own bath salt store.

With bath salts easily ranging from $10-$15 dollars for a jar who wouldn’t want to make their very own batch of bath salts in the comfort of their own home.

Basic bath salt ingredients:

Salt – This can be a combination of salts or just one salt alone. Most people prefer to use a combination because it adds a little something to the texture and appearance of your homemade bath salts.

So what kind of salts should you use?

Epsom Salt

Sea Salt

Natural Dead Sea Salt

Hawaiian Red Alaea Sea Salt

Bolivian Rose Mountain Salt

Baking Soda – helps make your skin softer

Coloring and Fragrance – This is optional but most people like their bath salts to look pretty and smell good.

Natural Moisturizer’s – Adding natural moisturizes to your bath salts is optional as well but I think that once you make a batch with moisturizers in it you will never skip this step again.

So what moisturizer’s should you include?

Grapeseed oil – Makes your skin feel silky and smooth

Avocado Oil – known for it ability to give your skin added nourishment

Apricot Oil – This is great if you tend to have sensitive skin

Good old fashioned Olive Oil – very gentle on your skin

Basic Bath Salt Recipe:

3 Cups Of Salt – This can be any combination of salt that you would like it to be. I generally make sure that I have at least one cup of Epsom salt and then use one or two more kinds of salt to equal three cups of salt.

1/2 – 3/4 cup of Baking Soda

1 Cup of your Natural Moisturizing Oil – Again you can pick whichever moisturizer suits your needs or none at all. This step is optional.

Fragrance and Coloring of your choice – For both of these it is recommended that you start out with just a few drops and increase it until you are satisfied with the way it smells and the color it is.

Mix it all together and put it in an airtight jar. Let it sit for a few days before you use it.

Be creative and experiment with this recipe. Part of the allure of bath salts it that they are pretty to look at and smell heavenly.

If you should decide you would like to sell your homemade bath salts online feel free to sign up for my free mini course on how to sell crafts online.

Making your own Christmas ornaments can be a fun and rewarding craft. There are several different ways in which you can make ornaments.

Making Christmas ornaments using a clear glass bulbs

One of my favorite ways to make Christmas ornaments is by filling large clear glass bulbs with interesting things.

What you need:

Large Clear Glass Bulbs

Things of interest – feathers, beads, pine-cones, ribbon, etc

This is very simple to do and you can produce truly exquisite and classy Christmas ornaments.

How to make Christmas ornaments using the clear glass bulbs:

To make these ornament simply add your things of interest into the clear glass bulbs. This is simple but there are a few things to think about. What color scheme are you looking for. Example, silver and blue, or red and gold. Make sure you add things of different textures and things that will sparkle when the Christmas lights are on. After you have finished adding your objects of interest tie a bow at the top of the ornament.

Painting the inside of clear bulbs

Another thing you can do with clear bulbs is paint the inside of them. This will give you a bulb with a tye dyed effect.

What you need:

Clear Glass Bulbs

A thin paint

How to make painted glass bulbs

With your clear glass bulbs, remove the top and add a few drops of paint inside. You can add whichever colors you would like but if you get to crazy with how many colors you put in you might end up with a brown ornament. Put the top back on the bulb and swirl the bulb around to make the paint disperse in the bulb.

When you are satisfied with the design and coverage of the paint, take the top back off of the bulb and let it dry. Do not put the top back on the bulb until the paint is thoroughly dry. Put the top back on the ornament and either hang it up on your tree or give it as a gift.

Making Christmas Ornaments Using Colored Bulbs

Another way to make Christmas ornaments is to use colored bulbs and either paint a scene on them with an acrylic based paint or use glue to design your bulb and sprinkle glitter on the bulb.

What you need:

Colored Christmas ornaments

Elmer’s Glue

Glitter

Acrylic Paint

How To Make Christmas Ornaments Using Colored Ornaments:

To Paint ornaments – Start with a plain colored ornament. Make sure that it is free of dirt and is completely dry. With acrylic paint but any design you would like your ornament to have on it. Let dry overnight before hanging on your tree or wrapping it up as a gift.

To make designs with glitter – Start out with a clean dry ornament. Draw your design on your ornament using a liquid glue (like Elmer’s white glue). Coat the entire ornament with a layer of glitter and let sit for a minute. Shake off the access glitter from your ornament and set the ornament aside for twenty four hours to let the glue fully dry before you either hang your ornaments on the tree or wrap up as a gift.

Using glitter on ornaments is very easy and inexpensive to do and the finished product looks beautiful.

Experiment and have fun when making homemade Christmas ornaments!

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