Making Bath Melts - Orange Blossom & Cocoa Butter

I have just completed an order for some delicious Organic Cocoa Butter Bath Melts fragranced with the delightful Jo Malone type fragrance - Orange Blossom.

Here is the official fragrance description for the Jo Malone Orange Blossom perfume

'Inspired by a stay at a hotel in Bel Air, Orange Blossom is pure delight. The scent of clementine leaves in the morning dew sparkles above a heart of orange blossom and water lily, transporting the wearer to a garden oasis'

For me, it simply reminds me of how lovely Spain is in the Spring when the orange groves are

laden with the blossom and the air is so sweet ! One of my favourite fragrances!

Top Tips for creating your own Bath Melts

The trick to making your own scented bath melts is to ensure you are using a professional fragrance oil, and to add a maximum of 2 % of the toal of Cocoa or Shea Butter, i.e. 100g of Cocoa Butter, you only add 2ml of fragrance oil. The reason is that if you add any more it will simply ooze out of your finnished bath melt and just be all sticky and horrible!!!!

Second top tip is make sure you have let your melted butter cool down otherwise the heat will simply cause the fragrance oil to evaporate and you finnish up without any scent in your bath melt!!!!

Make your own Organic Chocoloate Fizzing Bath Melts

I have had several of my friends in Spain ask me to bring over some more of my really popular and very delicious Fizzing Bath Melts Kits.

This I confess is probably one of my successful make your own skincare kits, and is perfect to add some delicious organic chocolate too for the chocoholic lover! So I decided this would be perfect to share on my blog!

These are a lovely blend of Bath Belts with a fizzing Bath Bomb. Quite often many people find that Bath Melts alone, provide just a little too much oil for one bath so by combining with some fizzing therapy ingredients the oils are more finely dispersed as well as enjoying the benefits of the fizzing therapy too!

All that is required if you have not bought one of my kits which is complete with everything you need, ingredients, instructions and moulds, is some yummy natural ingredients and a some delicious fragrances and cute little muffin moulds too!

Ingredients:

Cocoa Butter

]Shea Butter

Sodium Bicarbonate

Citric Acid

Fragrance Oil

(Optional) Organic Chocolate Powder ( I love Green's Organic Cocoa Powder)

Moulds (Paper or Foil mini muffin moulds are great)

The instructions are along these lines:

1) Gently melt the cocoa butter in a bowl over a pan of boiling water

2)When it is completely melted, turn off the heat and add your Shea Butter and leave to melt without using any heat.

3)Sieve the Sodicum Bicarbonate and Citric Acid powders with a spoonful of the cocoa powder, this will look a very light brown but once you add liquids it will turn a much deeper colour.

4) Quickly add your melted butters to the sodium and citric powders, and mix thoroughly yet gently

5) Add to your moulds or simply roll into small balls on the palm of your hands and wrap in cling film to help prevent fizzing and keep their shapes

6) Leave to cool and harden in a fridge for as long as possible.

You may wish to add some fragrance too, this can be added at the final stages

Now when you are ready to use one of your delicious fizzing bath melts, simply run your self a tub full of warm water and drop a bath melt into and allow to fizz and gently melt their moisturising oils into your bath water.

Sheer Bliss!

If you would like to buy a complete kit with all the luxurious ingredients, moulds and instructions simply buy one here!