Romantic Moods - Recipes for Homemade Bath Salts

Smell the Romance. There's nothing like scents to set the mood for romance. The retail market has so many wonderful products to choose from these days - potpourri, candles, oils, bath salts - the list is almost endless. Have you ever considered making your own scented products? Bath salts is one of the easiest and economical items you can make...

Below are three very basic recipes from Ebook Nook Romance for bath salts. Have some fun experimenting on your own such as choosing different scents, layering the colors in a pretty jar, tying them up with ribbons in net.

Recipe for Basic Bath Salts

2 cups Epsom salts

1/2 cup sea salt

6 drops any scented oil

3 drops food coloring

Place Epsom and sea salt in container. Add 3-4 drops of your favorite scented oil. Sprinkle into warm bath as desired.

Recipe for Bath Salts Fizzy Style

You'll feel like you're taking a bath in a bottle of scented champagne! It's so easy too! This is enough salt for 2 baths.

1/3 cup baking soda

1/4 cup citric acid crystals

1 tablespoon of cornstarch

Mix all the ingredients. Store in an airtight container. Sprinkle about 1/4 cup of the salts into warm bath.

Recipe for Sea Foam Bath Salts

1 cup liquid soap

2 tablespoons of oil

Your favorite food coloring

12 cups rock salt crystals

Mix first 3 ingredients then pour over salt. Stir until crystals are coated with the mixture. Next, place the crystals on a shallow pan & cover with wax paper. Allow to dry for about 1 day.

 

Potpourri Recipes, Create Some Romantic Magic!

Fragrant dried flowers, fruits, herbs & spices create beautiful potpourris that will add romance and charm to your love nest. It's beauty with ease, because potpourri concoctions are very simple to make! You won't need a college degree for this one…

Collecting the supplies for your potpourri creations can be just as much fun as making the potpourri masterpiece. You have so many options to use as your source. Craft stores make excellent storehouses for potpourri 'fixins', as well as simple nature walks. Nature has provided us with a bounty of items that we can use for making potpourri. Pine cones, berries, tree bark, cedar chunks, fragrant flowers, pretty pods, aromatic leaves – the possibilities are endless! 

There are also several online supply stores where you can obtain potpourri ingredients. To find a few, just go to your favorite search engine and type in: potpourri or potpourri supplies. You'll be hit with several hundred links.