Gifts for Mom

I have seen these sugar scrub and bath salt recipes all over Pinterest and I decided it would be a great thing to try for a Mother's Day gift.  Pictured here is a bath salt I made myself. 

It is really easy to make this and here is what you need.  Recipe source.

Bath Salts:

3 parts Epsom Salt

6 parts coarse sea salt

1 part baking soda

few drops of essential oils

food color

* Note I measured the parts by a medicine cup and it worked out perfect.

    It yields 2 cups of bath salts.

First, mix all the dry.  I put the essential oil and 1 drop of red and 1 drop of yellow food color in a medicine cup to mix and then added it into the salts.  Mix until you get a pretty color.

The scents I used were coconut, vanilla, and orange.  The orange was an essential oil and the other two were from a craft store for making soap or bath products.

I also made a sugar scrub.  It is really nice and it moisturizes.  The color comes from the olive oil.  It would be nice to use lime essential oil with coconut and vanilla for a great tropical smell.

Sugar scrub:

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil  (*note:  I would use a little less and add more if you need it, mine was a little soupy and then I drained some of the olive oil back off of the top to get the desired consistency.)

essential oil of choice

This was the easiest recipe I found for a scrub.  There are a lot of recipes out there. 

Enjoy!

Sherry

I will link this to: 

Wow Us Wednesday at Savvy Southern Style
What's It Wednesday   at Ivy and Elephants