Cocoa Butter Bath Melt Recipe
These DIY Lush bath melts are made to dissolve in warm water and coat your skin in a layer of skin-nourishing bath oils.
Yield: 6
Cost: $12
Equipment
- Christmas tree soap mold
- Medium microwave-safe bowl
Materials
- ¾ cup cocoa butter
- ½ cup shea butter
- ¼ cup cupuacu butter
- 2 tablespoons beeswax
- 2 tablespoons baking soda
- 20 drops ylang ylang essential oil
- 10 drops grapefruit essential oil
- ½ teaspoon chlorella finely ground (for color)
- Kitchen twine or string
Instructions
- Combine the butters and beeswax in a a heat-safe bowl and melt in a double boiler over low heat. Once melted, add the baking soda and essential oils. Stir well.
- Pour some of the melted oil into a separate bowl (you'll need about 4 ounces, depending on your mold) and add the ground chlorella for color. Do not add color to the remaining oil mixture.
- Pour the green oil into the tree portion of the mold and let cool completely (if you like, you can put it in the refrigerator to cool faster). Meanwhile, re-heat the non-colored oil so it remains a liquid.
- Pour the remaining oil into the mold and set aside to cool completely.
- Remove the solid bath melts from the mold, using a knife to separate them, if needed.
- Then, take a metal nail and hold it over a candle or open flame. Punch two holes at the top of each bath melt and run a piece of string the holes. Tie in a knot at the top.
- To use, break the bath melt into pieces and toss a couple small chunks into running bath water. The oils will float on top of the water, softening skin as you soak.