Spa Gifts from the Kitchen

I tried my hand at making some simple homemade beauty products to give as Christmas gifts this year to friends and family.

It was lots of fun!

I made 

Gingerbread Sugar Scrub

Peppermint Bath Salts

and 

Sugarplum Hand Cream

For the hand cream I combined -

8 ounces of vitamin E cream

8 ounces of petroleum jelly

16 ounces of Johnson's vanilla oatmeal baby lotion

1 drop of red food coloring

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Mix all ingredients in a mixer until combined.

Fill 4 ounce jars.

Recipe makes eight 4 ounce jars of lotion.

For the sugar scrub I used the same recipe that a coworker used -

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons cinnamon

2 teaspoons ginger

2 teaspoons nutmeg

2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

4 drops vanilla extract

1 cup grape seed oil 

Combine all ingredients except the oil.

And oil and blend thoroughly.

Fill 4 ounce jars.

Recipe makes four 4 ounce jars of scrub.

For the bath salts I combined -

a 5 pound bag of epsom salts

1 tablespoon peppermint extract

1 tablespoon of red food coloring

Combine all ingredients until well blended.

Let salt sit for 24 hours to dry thoroughly.

Fill 8 ounce jars.

Recipe makes twelve 8 ounce jars of salts.

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