About two years ago we were invited to a fantastic wedding and I had wonderful plans to buy the wonderful couple a present off their registry. I forgot. Then I kept forgetting. Until today!
After a visit to see them, I gifted the groom-two-years-ago one of my soaps. It was my first cold process attempt and he loved it! So much that he asked for a whole batch. My first custom order was placed!
But I’ve never really figured out pricing on my soap. It’s been just a hobby thing so to keep things easy, I just said “hey, I’m a terrible procrastinator and I owe you one. It’s free!”
Of course the bride-two-years-ago should get some stuff too. So here’s what I came up with:
- Four travel size bottle of varied lotions
- Three different scented chapsticks
- Lavender lingerie drawer scent sachet
- Jasmine lingerie drawer scent sachet
- Lavender pillow spray
- Rainbow colored varied solid bubble baths (click for link to recipe)
- Three different fragrances of bath bomb (click for link to recipe)
I made some changes to the recipes as you can probably tell. The bath bombs are colored with turmeric, purple and green brazilian clay, and the bubble baths are 7 different scents and colors. Of course, the bottom of the box was filled with about 15 cold process soaps, all scented with essential oils of cedarwood and sandalwood, per the “groom’s” request. My mold makes about 5 lb total.
The labels are all made by me also. For the soap, I used a stamp and embossed it to add the touch of red. The soap I shrink wrapped also. The bubble bath black box was made by a Cricut, and the lotion bottles are printed vellum over nice paper. I didn’t bother with vellum for the bath bombs, that’s just printer paper over some scraps from a calendar. The chapstick though is special chapstick labels that I stamped then printed on. The fonts are all free and can be found either on Word or here.
Right now I’m too lazy to dig up my lotion and chapstick recipe (I have to get up, go get my notebook, type it all out.. ugh)… But I will share with you the pillow spray and scent sachet recipes!
Here goes for the pillow spray in a 3 oz bottle:
- Lavender essential oil, maybe 25-30 drops (more if your EO is kinda cheap)
- Vodka.
- Yep, that’s it. Vodka.
Scent sachet:
- Essential Oil, maybe 10-15 drops
- Small organza bag with a drawstring
- Dried flower pets
So easy, right? You don’t even have to write it down. But it’s something I never did for myself but would always see at farmers markets or at the store and think “oh, now that’s so nice. I should get that, it’d be neat to have that aromatherapy whenever I open my drawer or just have that calming smell before bed. Well… nah…maybe some other time…” WHICH MAKES THIS TYPE OF THING A GREAT GIFT!
In my opinion, a good gift is something the receiver has always wanted but never got for themselves. It doesn’t have to be expensive or flashy. Plus these are regiftable if the receiver doesn’t want them. So easy!
While making the lotions, I set aside a few ounces to make different scents for my Aunt who was visiting. In this photo you can see the vellum has some glitter, which I couldn’t see very well in the store (Hobby Lobby). I do like the little bit of sparkle though, and I love how it lets you see the paper design below. This turned out super cute with my other lotions too!
I wish I had better photos, but between making all this stuff, packaging it up, cleaning up my mess, and now writing about it, I’m spent. Now off to organize my new craft room!
The Inspired Dr.Mom 