Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Where can i find these? (making homemade bath products)?

I recently discovered this site and I love it! I've decided to start making soaps, scrubs and bombs. I went through the recipes and found all of the ingredients that i don't have. I'm not sure where to buy these, so could anyone help me? I live in ruralish Canada and I don't want to buy online. Places like Walmart, health food stores, dollar stores ect. would be good. Here's the items:


-shealoe butter


-jojoba wax beads


-beeswax


-epsom salts


-fine sea salts


-melt n pour soap


-colourings (and what type?)


-essential oils





Thanks in advance for your help!Where can i find these? (making homemade bath products)?
If you have a large hobby store somewhere it would be great. Hobby Lobby and Michael's have all the stuff. You are going to have to piece it together. For instance, you aren't going to find jojoba wax beads at Walmart. But you can get some jojoba oil or body soap and then buy some paraffin wax. It's in the lotion section of drugstores and is known for softening skin. Melt some paraffin wax and pour in a bit of the jojoba soap and then let it set, and crumble or cut it up yourself. Shea butter is a thick cream for softening skin. You can find it at wall-mart or a drugstore. Essential oils have to be ordered online or you can forget it...or you can make them. I will give you a list of cheap books here in a minute. The coloring you use for soap is candle coloring. If you don't have a place where you can buy candle wax to make candles with, i don't think you will have access to candle coloring. I like to use natural colors derived from fruit. They are non chemical and smell good. Boil some water with some pomegranate seeds in it, or orange peel or lemon peel. Combining those in different proportions will give you nice shades. Simmer some spinach For green. Cook these down until the color is concentrated. I've never tried food color in soap. The salts you can buy at the drugstore. If you look in the crafts section at wallmart the melt- and- pour soap is sold in small quantities. But using that stuff is the easy way out. And, the expensive way out. You can get dove, or some other kind of cheap soap and let it dissove in warm to hot water. Add some glycrine. You can get that in the first aid section of a store. Add a tespoon of glycerine per bar of soap


Now, you are going to peice this together and it may suck. here are some books. i've made products from these books and sold them commerically in ski resorts, gift shoppes and even to nurses in hospitals who won't use anything else on their hands except my hand cream. And you know what's in it?....... CRiSCO!


The books are a series called Stoney's Herbal Body Series. They are under 10 bucks apiece and they teach you how to really do these things instead of spending money on the components.


One book is on Perfumes. Then one whole book is on Essential Oils. One is on baby care. One is Herbal Home Remed. One is Herbal Home Spa ( i love that one) and one is The Natural Soap Book The website is www.storey.com The publisher is


Storey Books


Pownal, Vermont Where can i find these? (making homemade bath products)?
health food stores like fruitful yield and whole foods have things like fine sea salts and most likely essential oils. virtually any any drug store has epsom salts, since its used as a bath salt or laxative, but if you want nice stuff, the aforementioned places would be good.





you can make colors out fruits and veggies.


to make juice or plant dyes you need to take about 1/4 - 1/2 cup of a natural item, put it in a pot with about four cups of water, simmer on low for 1-2 hours, strain, and cool. then add more and more to your product until you acheive the desired effect





for blue you can use red cabbage, red onion skins or blueberries


for yellow you can use turmeric or a yellow onion skin


for purple use purple grapes


for brown use coffee or tea


and for red use cranberries or beets :)





hope this helps!
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