Lavender Bath Salts

Not for eating, just for the bath. Though, you can make it for the kitchen if you just replace the Epsom salt for Kosher salt and use mint leaves and food grade lavender.  I grow my own lavender so I just use that.

Lavender Mint Bath Salts

3 cups pf Epsom salts
2 drops of mint essential oil
1/2 of lavender

Mix all together and pour into jars.  You can pretty up the jars with labels.  I used labels from The Graphics Fairy.  If you don't already know about the Graphics Fairy then, boy are you in for a treat.  She has taken many images that are not copyrighted and placed them on her blog for you to download for free.  You can manipulate the images and size them to whatever your needs are.  

Homemade Hand Lotion

I have terribly dry skin in the winter.  I absolutely have to put on lotion plus gloves at night to keep them from cracking and bleeding.  This stuff does leave a bit of a greasy residue on your hands so it is best to use it at night.  If you use more of the creams than the oils you probably will have a less greasy feeling mixture. Either way I highly recommend it.  It's healing power is amazing.

Quilters Handcream

Do not use Neosporin for this- use Polysporin.

12 ounces aloe cream or gel

12 ounces Vitamin cream

.05 ounce tube of polysporin

2 tablespoons of petroleum jelly

4 tablespoon baby oil, cream or gel

Mix together with a whisk.  It will whip up nice and creamy.  In order to get into the pump bottle, I put it in a plastic bag and snipped of the corner of the bag.  This made it so much easier to get it into the pump bottle.