Super Easy Body Mist

Distilled water
Fragrance or essential oil of your choice

Pour water into atomizer bottle, add oil. Shake well and spray on. If you don't use an essential oil, please to be sure to purchase a fragrance oil meant for soaps and body products. Many "room" and "home" type fragrance oils will irritate your skin.

Salt of the Earth Bath Soak

A pair of recipes at the same time! More pamper yourself goodies. I'm gonna post them separately to make them easier to search from the recipe box.

Salt of the Earth Bath Soak
1 cup Epsom Salts
1 Tbsp ground(powdered) Kelp
approx 10 drops of Tea Tree Essential Oil
3 drops Cinnamon Leaf Essential Oil
5 drops colored dye (I like green for this one)
a few drops of Patchouli Essential Oil to your tastes

Add all items into a zippy bag and mix until color is consistent.

To Use: add desired amount to a hot bath and enjoy.

Bee Sweet Honey Scrub

A pair of recipes at the same time! More pamper yourself goodies. I'm gonna post them separately to make them easier to search from the recipe box.

Bee Sweet Honey Scrub
1 cup clover honey
1 cup Sugar in the Raw
2 droppers full of Sweet Almond Oil
a dollop of Vitamin E

Mix thoroughly. With no water, this should keep relatively well in a sealed container.

To Use: Take a generous handful and scrub wet hands or feet. Because this is thick and sticky, it works best with a bit of warm water added when you use it. It rinses off really well, exfoliates mildly and leaves your skin pretty darn soft.

Wicked Hot Pumpkin Seeds

Ok, so the pic's not fantastic, and the recipe's a bit overdue, but I only make these this morning. With all the humidity, it took days for my pumpkin seeds to dry.

Ingredients:
Fresh pumpkins seeds (rinsed well with all the stringy crap removed)
Table Salt
Hungarian Hot Paprika (or ground cayenne)
Vegetable Oil

Once your seeds are completely dry from the rinsing, preheat your oven to 300 degrees. While the oven preheats, pour a couple tablespoons of vegetable oil over the pumpkin seeds and stir until coated. Don't use any more oil than you have too.

Sprinkle with salt to taste and add paprika generously. Stir to coat. Spread seeds in a thin, even layer on a cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes, stirring twice along the way. Let cool 5 minutes or so and enjoy.

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My seeds are different sizes and colors because I carved my jack o'lanterns from a few different varieties of pumpkin. Some on them had small seeds and one even had seeds with no hull (that's the green ones).

Lotion in the works.

I've been reading up on handmade hand lotion and scrubs and stuff. There are a couple of recipes brewing in my head. Will let you know when there are new additions to the recipe book.

I'm looking forward to it.