Four Simple-Body Care Products You Can Do With Your Kids

 

Thanksgiving and Christmas break are coming up.

 

What is a parent to do?

 

If your kids are anything like mine, they will be whining about being bored and wanting things to do (insert eye roll).

 

My two girls LOVE to create things.  Sometimes they will play Chopped from the Food Network show and create their own dishes and judge each other.  Other times they will take things from around the house and create art projects.     They have even written stories.

 

This Thanksgiving and Christmas I thought it might be fun to create some gifts for teachers and family and since I do mostly body care products around here, I figured why not go with that theme.

 

Here are four simple products you and your kids can create together.

 

All the ingredients are  can be purchased at the grocery store, so no hunting down specialty items.

 

Lavender Grapefruit Tub Tea (adapted from Garden Therapy)

It’s tea….in your tub…lol….(But don’t drink it)

Ingredients

• 4 unbleached large tea filters
• 1 1/2 cups Epsom salts
• 1/4 cup powdered milk
• 1/4 cup rolled oats
• 1/4 cup sea salt
• 1/4 cup lavender flowers
• 10 drops lavender essential oil
• 10 drops grapefruit essential oil
• Optional: dried rose or peony petals

1. Fill tea filter with 4 large spoonfuls of Epsom salts. Mix together the remaining ingredients and put two spoonfuls in the filter.
2. Fill Tea Filters with Epsom salts, powdered milk, oatmeal, herbs and scents for a no mess bath tea
3. Fold over the top and staple close. Use a hole punch to thread the twine through and attach a tag with bathing instructions.

 

Sleepy time Bath Salts

• 1 cup Epsom Salt
• 1/2 cup Real Salt or a high-quality mineral-rich salt
• 5 drops Lavender Essential Oil
• 1/4 cup crushed lavender (optional)
• Container, like an mason jar

1. In a container, add the Epsom Salt, Real Salt, and crushed dried lavender. Mix the ingredients together. Simply shake the container once sealed.
2. Once combined, add the lavender essential oil. Mix the oil throughout the salts.
3. Seal the container and use 1/2 cup per bath.

 

Candy Cane Bath Bombs (adapted from A Mom’s Take)

Ingredients:

• ½ cup oil- Olive oil, liquid coconut oil, almond oil or grapeseed oil.
• ½ cup cornstarch (for GMO friendly, use arrowroot starch)
• 1 cup citric acid (can be found at health food or kitchen stores and in the canning isle at major grocery stores.)
• 1 cup baking soda
• 10 drops peppermint essential oil
• molds- You can use cupcake liners, plastic Easter eggs, silicone molds or chocolate molds.

1. Mix dry ingredients.
2. Add essential oil and olive oil.
3. Mix together until it has the consistency of wet sand.
4. Spoon into your molds, it should stick and shape together really well. Let dry for 24 hours. This recipe makes about 20 of the little cupcake liner size.

 

Brown Sugar Coconut Scrub (adapted from Miss Information)

Ingredients

• 4 oz jar
• 2 parts Brown Sugar
• 1 part Coconut Oil (no need to use the expensive kind for this)

1. Add 1 part coconut oil to the jar and melt in the microwave.
2. Gently mix in the brown sugar until you have a paste like consistency.
3. Use a spoon to stir up the mixture.
4. Make a label with instructions: Smooth over your skin in a circular motion to exfoliate and polish your skin. Seal the lid tightly.

Happy Crafting!

Do you have any projects you do with your kids?

Let’s have a conversation in the comments!