Part 3! The final product I made was a salt scrub. I usually like an emulsified scrub with sugar, but I wanted to try something a little heavier this time. This gift trio is about homemade pampering and I wanted to use more ingredients and some fancy salt I bought. Equally as easy to use fancy sugar and it might have even gone with the scent better, but darn it, I wanted to use salt! Just this once. This scrub was inspired by three things. Yogurt powder, European Spa salt and Goat Milk & Honey fragrance oil. Take all my money WSP.
I know, I know, what the heck am I doing writing this in grams and not percentages? Well I invented this as I went and wrote down what I was using. When I went back at the end to convert to percentages, anything below 5 grams clocked in at under 1%. It just wasn't really working out that way because the amount of salt is so dang high. This measurement makes just enough for an 8oz jar. I used this one. I'm going to give myself a pass here and say that 8oz is a good amount to make, though you could double it and make 16 or halve and make 4. All sizes that jars come in. It's doubtful you'd need to make exactly 6.389898oz or something right?
For some reason at the start of my bath & body product making I thought an 8 ounce bag of honey powder would be a great thing to have. Maybe I forgot about it, or just don't know how to use it, but I've never used it... When I bought this yogurt powder my mind wandered back to that bag of honey powder. Yogurt & Honey. Mmm. You're back in the game honey!
The afore mentioned fragrance. This is a very sweet, very strong fragrance. Quite warm and edible. More like a vanilla than anything else, but very foodie.
Fine salt is a must. Salt is rougher than sugar because of its crystalline shape. This means more tiny pointy corners to scratch your skin. I also suspect that salt doesn't soften and dissolve in water as quickly while you are scrubbing (I have no science to back that up). Since this is a hand and foot product and those areas can take a tougher scrub I deemed salt ok, but still, only really fine salt.
The oil phase of the formulation weighed into a heat safe glass bowl.
While the oils are heating weigh out your dry ingredients.
I used a teaspoon *gasp!* to measure out the honey and yogurt powders, but I've since weighed and converted that to grams for you (turns out honey powder is heavier!). Make sure all the dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed.
Once the oil phase is melted and combined, add the mixed dry phase.
I mixed when the oils were still hot off the stove so it looked pretty soupy.
After popping it in the fridge for a while it started to cool and thicken. Once it's cooled down to about this texture you can add your fragrance and preservative. Yes you need that. Really really. Wet hands will be mixing with this product and with the addition of yogurt and honey powders we really don't want to chance it. Be sure to use an anhydrous appropriate preservative like Phenonip.
Finally, completely cooled! That's a much better 'mashed potato' texture. You don't want this too runny so the salt doesn't sink to the bottom and it isn't a nightmare to scoop into your hands.
Again I created a label. This time I added a "Caution!" because this all oil product could potentially make a tub very slippery. Better safe than sorry.
Jarred and ready to give away. This smells and feels great. I'm making some for myself next!
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