Pregnant Belly Oil Recipe

If you are pregnant, try this massage oil from MotherNature.com to help prevent stretch marks. The lavender essential oil also acts as a muscle relaxant.

Ingredients

4 400-International Unit vitamin E capsules

4 ounces almond (or any light vegetable) oil

½ ounce cocoa butter (available in drugstores)

15 drops lavender essential oil

Directions

Pop open the vitamin E capsules and squirt contents into almond oil. Heat mixture in a saucepan over low heat. Add cocoa butter. After cocoa butter melts, remove mixture from heat and let cool. Add essential oil and stir to blend. Massage the oil on your belly— or get someone to do it for you—at least once a day, or as often as you like.

Source: http://bathnbody.craftgossip.com/pregnant-belly-oil-recipe/2009/02/07/

Layered Container Candles

Add your own unique touch to regular container candles with fragrance and color combinations with this step by step instructions from Peak Candle Supply.

http://www.candletech.com/techniques-and-ideas/layered-container-candles/

Plum Wild Body Scrub

Ingredients:

.50 lb fine sea salt
3 ounces Colorless Jojoba Oil
1 ounces Sunflower Oil
these two oils and their amounts can be interchanged to cut costs.
2 ounces Melt and Pour Soap Base
( I use transparent, melt this prior to adding it to the other ingredients. )
1 ml Lemon Zinger Fragrance Oil
1/2 ml Aloe Fragrance Oil
1/2 ml Red Currant Fragrance Oil

Instructions:

Measure your ingredients into a large enough container to allow for adequate stirring. I like to use an 87 ounces bucket. After your ingredients have been weighed into bucket in the above order, mix thoroughly and transfer into desired containers.

Notes & Comments:

This is a more viscous salt scrub it's not as oily and drippy as the Spa-erific salt recipe. This recipe filled approximately 2-4 ounce and 1-2 ounce dome cosmetic jars. Enjoy!

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me at steph@the-sage.com

Source: http://www.thesage.com/recipes/recipes.php?_State=Display&id=131

Butter Bars/Lotion Bars Recipe

Ingredient List:

4 ounces cocoa butter, shea butter or mango butter
4 ounces beeswax, refined beads, yellow or white
4 or 5 ounces liquid vegetable oil such as refined jojoba, sunflower or sweet almond*
3 to 4 teaspoons of essential oil or fragrance oil of your choice
2 to 3 teaspoons colored wax jojoba beads (optional)

Directions:

Melt first butter and pour 4 ounces into 8oz Pyrex measuring cup. Add 4 ounces of beeswax beads. (Total of 8 ounces in cup) Add colored jojoba beads if using. Melt together in microwave. Now add the liquid vegetable oil. Use 4 ounces for a hard bar, which would bring your total to 12 ounces or 5 ounces for a softer bar for a total of 13 ounces. Stir to mix thoroughly. Add essential oil or fragrance oil when mixture has cooled slightly. Pour into jars or small soap molds. Pop out when cool, about two hours. For best results, put in refrigerator for a few minutes before popping out of mold.

* Different carrier oils will give a different feel to your butter bars. Lighter oils will absorb in to the skin quicker, heavier oils will be more moisturizing, but will take longer to absorb into the skin. For more information see our Carrier Oils Page and also this Recipe Page.

Uses:

*Wet hands and rub with lotion bar

*Rub on body when getting out of shower while still damp

*Use as drawer sachet

*Cut off a sliver and let melt in hot bath water

*Massage into cuticles to soften them

*Rub into elbows and knees

*Massage - use softer bar recipe.

Source: http://www.herbalaccents.com/lipbalm,butter_lotionbars,bathbombs.htm

How to Blend Essential Oils

Want to start blending your own blending your own essential oils, but you never knew how to get started?  Well this article on how to blend essential oils by bungalowbettie, eHow Member, will explain that you can use oils which is readily available at your grocery store to blend with your essential oils.