This is a great way to make your own skincare products for the younger members of the family! This will encourage any reluctant children into the bath, and is especially kind to their skins as it only contains natural ingredients,no harsh chemicals at all! It can easily be adjusted as well to your child's favourite colours! Help them to make up a batch and they will be running to fill their bath !
Milk is not only beneficial to drink, supplying our bodies with vitamins,minerals and calcium, but is also easily abosorbed by our skin too! Therefore it is as effective being used externally. Not only good for our bodies, but is also extremly kind and gentle, as well as conditioning and moisturising our skin. It is an ideal natural bathing ingredient. I particularly like Goats Milk, as it is extremly kind to sensitive skins.
Recipe One
100g x Powdered Goats Milk - Great for sensitive skins and eczema or psoriasis sufferers
1 tbsp x Natural colouring of your choice
Natural Colours include:
Cocoa powder - coffee to brown depending on how much you add to your milk
Paprika - peach shades
Cayenne powder - cinamon shades
1) Simply sieve your powdered milk into a large bowl and sieve your powdered colour and mix thoroughly with a spoon.
Tip
Remember, the colour will not look anything like the finnished colour whilst it is still in powdered form, once wet this will show you the final depth of colour. Add more powdered colouring to create a stronger finnished shade.
Fizzing Milkshake
To help make your milk shake bath time have a little bit of a zing to it, why not add a ratio of Citric Acid and Sodium Bicarbonate to your powdered Milk Shake. Add a ratio of 3 - 1, which is 3 tbsp of Sodium Bicarb to 1 tbsp of Citric Acid, and sieving and mixing with your powdered Milk. Run your bath with warm water and add a handful of your bath milk shake mix and swish and wait for the fizzing fun begin!
Cheat's method
You could cheat a little and add some of your child's favourite 'Milk Shake Powder' which will create some great colours too! Yummy Strawberry - pale pinks to red! Mint for lovely green shades and they will smell fab too! Don't forget you could use any form of 'powdered milk as well. The benifit to using powdered milk is that you can store this for a while (if your children will let you keep it!) Using fresh milk of course will have to be used straight away.
Recipe Two
100ml x fresh milk
1tbsp x food colouring of choice
1) Simply whisk your colour into your milk.
This quantities will make approximatley enough for 1 bath, but make up larger quantities and store your powdered milkshake a nice muslin bag, or wooden tub and let your little ones, help themselves. I would not recommend storing the Milk Liquid shake, simply make up and use.
This is a perfect accompaniment to some really great 'Wibbly Wobbly Jelly Soap' which was first made by Lush ( I believe) and is really easy to create yourself and is great fun for the kids to make also, (with a little adult supervision).
One last warning, with any colourings, you may risk colouring your bath as well as your towels, so perhaps do a little test first!
Have fun.
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