Martha Stewart has a wonderful tutorial on beautiful making bath “snowballs”, similar to a bath bomb but without the fizziness.
Find the instructions here.
Handmade Christmas Day Lavender pillow tutorial
Cathie and Steve came up with a great tutorial on making a lavender eye pillow, perfect for helping you calm down and get a peaceful night’s rest. These also make great, quick holiday gifts! Find the instructions here.
Red wine sugar scrub recipe
Make this indulgent red wine scrub and exfoliate and moisturize your skin with the yummy scent of red wine!
Razor burn soother recipe
Craftbits has an incredibly simple recipe (only 2 ingredients!) for whipping up a razor burn soother to help with bumps and ingrown hairs. Find it here.
Hanukkah soap mold
Hanukkah begins at sundown December 21st. Make simple and beautiful melt and pour soap gifts with these soap molds from Milky Way! Package them in clear take out cartons or cellophane bags from Snowdrift Farm.
Strawberry salt scrub
Treat your feet after all that Black Friday shopping with this quick and easy strawberry salt scrub recipe. The recipe can also be altered to be vegan.
Shaving set
Sierra Clay Art has created an attractive stoneware shaving set, a perfect gift for the man in your life that likes to shave the classic way. Several designs are available here.
Thanksgiving soap molds
In honor of the the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday … Use these turkey or pumpkin molds to make easy melt and pour gifts for friends and family whom you celebrate with!
The molds are available at Milky Way Molds.
Bath bomb surprise tutorial
This bath bomb surprise tutorial is a great idea for a kid’s birthday party favor. Just find some fun plastic trinkets for the surprise inside!
Villianess Soaps
I’ve mentioned Villainess’s awesome products before, but I just can’t resist raving about them once more now that holiday shopping season is underway. What I am currently in love with right now are the Smooch! scrubs in Pyromania, Dulces … Read More...
Homemade hair remover recipe
I came across an interesting and easy recipe for a homemade hair remover on bellasugar using ingredients you can easily find in your kitchen. I’m not quite brave enough to try it out myself yet, but if you make it, … Read More...
French General: Home Sewn review
Kaari Meng of French General has put together another great book of projects, this time a collection of designs for the home entitled French General: Home Sewn, published by Chronicle Books. I was interested to see what projects would … Read More...
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Do you make bath and body products? Do you sell supplies to soap and other body product makers? If your business is bath and body related and you’d like to be featured here on CraftGossip, join our Flickr pool and … Read More...
Erzulie Cosmetics
I recently got a sweet little package of samples from Erzulie Cosmetics to try out. Lately, I have been wanting to learn more about mineral makeup companies, so I was excited about trying these out.
The first product I used … Read More...
Autumn potpourri recipe
Marcy Paulson has a lovely tutorial on making autumn inspired potpourri, full of nutmeg, pine, cinnamon and other spicy scents. This recipe would also be great for the Christmas holidays. Visit here for the instructions.
Bug soap tutorial
Here is a tutorial for a great embedded bug soap for an easy melt and pour project. There’s still a week left before Halloween to make these!
Find the directions here.
Green tea bath bags
Not only are these green tea bath bags are easy to make, but green tea is great for the skin, as the the polyphenols in green tea have anti-inflammatory properties.
1 cup Green tea leaves
1/4 cup Lavender buds
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Liquid soap cover
Deb Babcock makes this lovely liquid soap dispenser holder. Made of porcelain and impressed with vintage lace, this holder is a great cover up for plastic soap dispensers.
Solid shampoo recipe
The Soap Kitchen has a very detailed recipe for a solid shampoo for cold process soap makers.
Please visit their site for all the details!
Halloween melt and pour soap tutorial
David Fisher has got a great tutorial for making making melt and pour soaps with Jello molds and muffin tins. It’s a great family project or for the weekend crafter wanting to learn basic soapmaking!
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