Bath salt favors for your bridal party getaway or bachelorette spa weekend
They're super easy to dress up with a piece of wired ribbon around the tops of the jars. Add a message to your guests on the label, or your names and event date along with the scent name of the bath salts.YOU'LL NEED:
1) Bath salts mixture - epsom salts, large-crystal sea salt, baking soda (you can mix these roughly equally but lean more towards the sea salt)
2) Food coloring
3) Glass spice jars with lids or any other small jars that would make cute bath salt favors
4) Wired or other ribbon - this particular ribbon was bought at Shinoda in Orange County, one of my favorite haunts. (I highly recommend them, if you know someone with a resale license 'cause unfortunately they're wholesale only.) If you live in Los Angeles, I have found great ribbon at rock bottom prices at the Moskatel's in the downtown flower mart.
5) Essential oils, or if you must, synthetic fragrance oils, for scents
6) Grapefruit seed extract/Citricidal (optional and only needed if you're using the essential oils)
7) Adhesive backed paper for labels. There are a lot of places on the internet that sell customized labels, but if you really want the freedom to put anything you want on yours they can be pretty easily done on your computer in Microsoft word. If you do your own they're cheaper, of course, but I really also like the clean crispness of black and white labels. (I typically use a text box with a double-line border, then copperplate gothic and edwardian script fonts.)
STEPS:
1) Wash the glass jars for your bath salt favors and set aside to dry.
2) Mix the bath salts recipe.
3) Separate bath salts into different plastic ziploc bags, depending on how much you want to have of each color.
4) Use your food coloring to add desired colors to different bags of salts; shake vigorously to distribute color. Go easy at first – 3-4 drops of color goes a surprisingly long way.
5) Once salts are colored, add your desired scents, and shake again. You may want to add 2-3 drops of grapefruit seed extract. This acts as a preservative if you are using plant-based essential oils and guarantees the scent will still be intact if the salts are not used for several months.
6) Using a measuring cup or large funnel, pour salts into each jar, then cap jars.
7) Measure one piece of ribbon to tie around the neck of one bath salt favors jar. You don't have to do a full bow- I'm always looking for ways to save a little money...just use wired ribbon, tie in a knot leaving a little extra ribbon at each end, and turn the edges under. Et voila! Faux bow. Now that you've done one ribbon, use your first measured ribbon piece as a pattern and cut the rest of the pieces of ribbon.
8)Tie all of the ribbons on. Primp the ribbon a little to give it some good shape, then bend those ends of the wired edges under.
9) If cutting your labels from full-sheet adhesive backed paper (which I recommend-MUCH easier than trying to align text with borders on pre-cut labels) try to use a rotary cutter to get cleanly cut, straight label edges.
10) Once your labels are printed and cut, just peel and stick.
*TIPS
Use ribbon colors that are different than the salts color for some interesting contrast. Try naming your bath salt favors scents after flowers and attach a silk version of the flower to the lid of the jar with a glue gun.
When you pour your bath salts in the jars, do alternating layers of two different colors to spice things up a bit.
For bridal shower favors, use a dollop of sealing wax or colored hot glue on the lid, then impress a seal with the initial of the guest of honor. Or try adding dried baby roses or lavender buds to your bath salts mix for a beautiful floral bath that looks great in the jar.
I know your guests will enjoy these, and let me know how it goes!
how much of each ingredient?
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