How to Make Chocolate Milk Bath Bon Bons

If the sweet smell of chocolate relaxes you after a tough day, chocolate milk bath bon bons are just the ticket. They only take a few minutes and some basic ingredients, and the result will be a delightful bath. The chocolate milk bath bon bons will relax and sooth you while the milk and cocoa butter soften your skin.

This recipe on  How to Make Chocolate Milk Bath Bon Bons from ehow combines powdered milk, cocoa butter and baker's chocolate to create this delightful bath treat. Even adding alittle orange essential oil will make this more extravegent like a grand mariner. So if you like to make your or someone else's bath more delightful, then this is the recipe for you!

Mother's Day Gifts

Mother's Day is just around the corner. If you are looking for something different to give your Mother for her special day and you live close to Palo Alto, I would recommend stopping in to Opalz Zoaps.

Opalz, located in Midtown Palo Alto at 719 Colorado Avenue, has array of bath and body products you can purchase especially for your mom or you can even create your own bar of soap at the Soap Bar. You may even find a cute basket to put your goodies in.

Opalz is open from 10 am to 4 pm Wednesday through Sunday. Monday and Tuesday by appointment. For more information, check out Opalz website at http://www.opalzoap.com/. Opalz phone number is 650/322-6500.

How to Make Mango Body Butter

Apply mango butter after a warm shower or a good workout, and the warmth will help the butter to penetrate your skin, leaving it smooth and soft, with a light fragrance.

This recipe combines shea and cocoa butter, mango butter, and other luscious ingredients to make this great treat for your body. To be honest, cocoa butter has a great aroma but it may over power the natural scent mango and shea butter. If you do not want that to happen you can purchase refrined cocoa butter which eliminated the chocolate scent. Shea butter has a nutty scent to it so you can also choose to purchase refined shea butter if you want. I have never purchase mango butter before so there is a possibility of purchasing of finding it in a refined format.

So are you interested? Then check out these easy instructions from Ehow on How to Make Make Mango Butter.

Layered Soaps Techniques

I found this recipe and wanted to share it with you.

This recipe creates two bars of luxurious layered soap. Use your two favorite fragrances to make your soap. Some of Kelly's favorite combinations are mango and strawberry, violet and musk, chocolate and orange, cinnamon and rose, and raspberry and peach.

Ingredients:
2 4oz. bars unscented glycerin soap
10 drops fragrance oil (your choice)
10 drops fragrance oil (your choice)
2 drops different coloring (ex. 1 orange, 1 blue)

Steps:
In a heavy saucepan over low heat, melt one bar of glycerin soap until liquefied. Remove from heat and stir in one drop food coloring and 10 drops fragrance oil. Pour half of the mixture into two soap molds, filling each mold halfway. Wait twenty minutes. Melt your second bar of glycerin soap until liquefied. Remove from heat and stir in the other drop of food coloring and fragrance oil. Pour this second layer on top of the first layer (already in molds). Let soap set for three hours or until hardened. Your finished bars should come out half one color and half another.

I also found these links that you may want to check out to create layered soaps:

Teach Soap (http://www.teachsoap.com/layersoap.html)

Soap Crafters (http://www.soapcrafters.com/rnbow.htm)

From Denise's Yadda Yadda Blog
(Part 1 http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/03/melt-and-pour-soap-making-pouring-soap.html; Part 2 http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/03/melt-and-pour-soap-making-pouring-soap_07.html; Part 3 http://goplanetearth.blogspot.com/2008/03/melt-pour-soap-making-pouring-soap-in.html)

Soap Teacher (http://www.soapteacher.com/StoreCategory.aspx?CategoryID=17&CategoryName=Layering+Soap)

DIY (http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/ca_crafts_projects/article/0,2041,DIY_13721_5713671,00.html)

In research this I found out that using a fork to scrap between layers like in the demo from Teach Soap makes the next layer adhere much better.

If you are looking for other recipes, check out some of the links in the side bar or check in my archive. There are alot of recipes in both places. I am always looking for new recipes to post on my blog, so please return in the future.

Where to purchase Citric Acid in SF Bay Area

If you are looking to purchase Citric Acid in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may want to take a trip to Berkeley and visit Juniper Tree on San Pablo Avenue. For more information about Juniper Tree visit their website at http://www.junipertreesupplies.com/.

I know in Palo Alto that Crossroads World Market on 720 San Antonio Road (cross street Middlefield) sells Citric Acid. There hours are Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 7:30 pm; Saturday 10 am 7:30 pm; Sunday 10 am - 5 pm.

You may want to check health food stores or places that sell items to make jams or jellies.

If I find any other places that sell it locally, I will let you know.