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!

Healing Foot Balm - Make your own skin care

As I often remark our feet are so overlooked yet they work so hard for us and rarely receives any of the pampering that the rest of our body enjoys!

Making foot balms or any balm is incredibly easy, but also fabulously versatile too, simply make up a batch of the balm, and seperate into different bowls, add some refereshing peppermint essential oil to one batch, perhaps some gentle chamomile oil to the other batch and within a few minutes your have 2 different natural beauty products, a nourishing and softening foot balm, with a healing and soothing hand balm.

Ingredients: Ingredients: 85g Shea Butter 13ml of oil of choice, 2 ml of peppermint essential oil, 2ml of chamomile essential oil or perhaps a mix 1 ml chamomile with 1ml of Lavender E.O.

I use a blend of Jojoba, Avocado and Rice Bran Oil, but you can choose whichever one you have a particular preference for. 1) Soften your Shea Butter by placing in a bowl over a large saucepan of boiled and gently simmering water. Ensure that you DO NOT melt completely and allow the oil to heat up, as this will simply make your Shea Butter grainy once it is whipped. It is essential to ensure that it simply softens. 2) Add your liquid oil of choice 3) Whip, I use a traditional electric whisk, some people use a stick blender. Whisk until your Shea Butter is light and creamy. 4) Seperate your whipped balm into two bowls

5)

Add your chosen essentials oil and blend thoroughly

Decant each batch into sterilised and clean jars, screw on the lid and keep airtight. Shea Butter has a naturally long shelf life and will last for several months if you keep clean and replace the lid securely.

Now you are ready to use your own 100% natural Shea Butter Foot Balm, and of course Hand Balm. These are full of natural healing properties, and completely chemical free!

Whipped Shea Butter Balm - Make your own skincare

Pure and Natural Shea Butter, is probably one of the most beneficial and highly versatile natural products for your skin and hair.

Shea Butter naturally nourishes,re-hydrates and deeply moisturises your skin, your skin will never let you use anything else!

By making your own whipped Body Butter, you can create your own to suit whatever mood you are feeling, instead of buying a large 250ml pot of one particuarly fragrance, you can simply make a batch of unfragranced and add a little of your own fragrance as and when your mood changes.

Ingredients: 85g Shea Butter 15ml of oil of choice

I use a blend of Jojoba, Avocado and Rice Bran Oil, but you can choose whichever one you have a particular preference for.

1)

Soften your Shea Butter by placing in a bowl over a large saucepan of boiled and gently simmering water. Ensure that you DO NOT melt completley and allow the oil to heat up, as this will simply make your Shea Butter grainy once it is whipped. It is essential to ensure that it simply softens.

2)

Add your liquid oil of choice

3)

Whip, I use a traditional electric whisk, some people use a stick blender.

Whisk until your Shea Butter is light and creamy.

4)

Decant into a sterilised and clean jar, screw on the lid and keep airtight.

Shea Butter has a naturally long shelf life and will last for several months if you keep clean and replace the lid securely.

If you wish to make a batch of fragranced, reduce the liquid ois to 13ml and use 2ml of fragrance oil.

Now you are ready to use your own 100% natural Shea Butter Body, full of natural healing properties, and completely chemical free! You can apply to your skin or even use as a deep conditioning hair mask!

Shea Butter Deep Condition Hair Mask - Make your own skincare

Shea Butter a 100% pure and natural beauty product, ideal to use for many of our make your own skincare products! Shea butter is rich in vitamins and completely chemical free, a natural organic butter to nourish your hair and skin.

Pure unrefined Shea Butter is fabulous for dry skin, senstive skin, for your body, your hair as a treatment conditioning mask! Shea Butter is a truely versatile and unique natural skin care product.

Using regularly Shea Butter as a hair treatment conditioning mask, you will soon see the improvements, and is particarly beneficial for dry hair, coloured hair, or just simply out of condition hair, soon you will have wonderful healthy shiny managable hair!

Instructions: 1) Ensure your hair has been combed and is dry.

2)scoop a little of the shea butter into your hands, and warm until easily pliable and starting with the ends of your hair, apply and gradually add to the top of your head .

3)Ensure all hair is covered with the Shea butter

4) Cover your hair with a towel or wrap and leave for as long as possible,ideally a few hours, but certainly a minimum of 1 hour.

5) Before washing your hair, first apply some shampoo, before wetting your hair, this will ensure you remeove all of the Shea Butter easily. If you wet your hair first, it will be difficult to remove.

6) Wash and rinse thoroughly, if you wish add a little conditioner for a final treatment.

7) To add some further benefits you can add a few drops of Rosemary Essential Oil for dark hair, or Chamomile Essential Oil for light hair, these wonderful and highly effective Essential Oils, will help add lustre and shine.

Don't forget whilst you are enjoying your conditioning treatment mask, why not apply a little also to your hands, and feet as well as a deep conditioning skin nourishing body butter.

Ideal as a weekly nourishing and reconditioning treatment or simply when your hair requires a 'boost' of natural goodness to nourish and re hydrate, naturally!

However you use this natural organic skin care butter, enjoy!