Honey Herbal Hair Conditioner

1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup glycerin
1/4 cup sage, and 1/2 cup dried chamomile flowers
OR
1/2 cup nettle leaves and 1/4 cup rosemary leaves
1/2 cup witch hazel
1 tablespoon liquid lecithin

Place all the ingredients in a screw top jar. Shake well and let set for 1 hour. Strain to remove herbs, discard the herbs and pour the liquid back into the jar. Makes about 1/2 cup.

Honey Egg Shampoo

1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoons liquid soap
2 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon witch hazel
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 tablespoon wheat germ oil or almond oil
1 tablespoon rosewater or cologne

Place all the ingredients in a screw top jar, cover and shake well. Makes about 2/3 cup.

Honey Bee Soap

4 oz. Opaque MP soap
1 T. beeswax pellets
1 T. honey

Melt beeswax and keep warm/liquid. Melt soap base and then mix in beeswax. Add honey and keep stirring until melted. Pour into mold. This recipe looks neat in a similar mold - Milky Way Molds have a bee and a flower.

Honeyed Bath Salts

You will need:
1 1/2 cups of Epsom Salts (or rock sea salt)
1/3 cup of honey (liquid honey)
2 drops of yellow food coloring
3 drops essential oil (optional, honey gives off a nice scent)

To create:
Take the salts and place them in a bowl with the honey. Stir them together very well. It will seem a little sticky. Add your two drops of yellow food coloring to the essential oil if you choose to use it. Oils that are good would be chamomile, rose or jasmine. Take the oil and color mixture and stir it into the salts. Cover in bowl for about 30 minutes so that they call mix well. Use 1/4 cup of recipe for each bath, drop into hot running water.

Herbal Shampoo (For Oily Hair)

2 tbs. dry peppermint
2 tbs. dry spearmint
1 tbs. dry sage
1 cup water
2/3 cup baby shampoo

Combine herbs and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to steep for 20 minutes. Strain out the herbs and mix the baby shampoo with the herbal water. Pour into a plastic squirt bottle or jar.

Herbal Shampoo (For Dry Hair)

1 tbs. dry comfrey root
1 tbs. dry rosemary
1 tbs. dry chamomile
1 cup water
2/3 cup baby shampoo
1 egg (beaten)
1/3 cup milk

Combine herbs and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to steep for 20 minutes. Strain out the herbs and mix herbal water with the baby shampoo, egg and milk. Pour into a plastic squirt bottle or jar.

Herbal Milk Bath

Ingredients:
2 cups of dry milk powder
1 cup of cornstarch
2 teaspoons of your favorite herbs

Instructions:
First combine the milk powder and cornstarch together in a blender, when it's all well combined add your herbs and blend once more. It is now ready to enjoy simply by adding 1/2 cup of the mixture to your warm running bath water.

HERBAL GLYCERIN SOAP

1 pound Glycerin
1/2 ounce fragrance oil or 1/2 to 1 teaspoon essential oil, amount depends on oil used.
1 T. herbal powder of your choice and/or 1 T. dried flower of you choice

Melt the glycerin in the microwave until completely disolved. This usually takes one to two minutes. Avoid stirring as much as possible because stirring causes bubbles. Pour in herbal powder, dried flowers, and fragrance oil while still in liquid state. Stir lightly to evenly distribute the ingredients.

Pour in the mold of your choice and let set for 1 to 2 hours or longer if desired. If you have trouble with the bar releasing from the mold, place in the freezer for a few minutes and the bar should release easily. I have found that the bar of soap lathers better when it is allowed to cure for 3 to 7 days before use.

This recipe yields 4 - 4 ounce bars of Glycerin Soap.

Hawaiian Bath Oil

Ingredients:
1/8 cup of canola oil
1/8 cup of apricot oil
10 drops of mango oil
10 drops of coconut oil
10 drops of gardenia oil

Instructions:
Mix all of the ingredients thoroughly together, bottle until ready for use. When ready add to the warm running water as you fill your bath tub and then simply enjoy the wonderful tropical aroma as your body soaks up the oils.

Green Apple and Aloe Vera Shower Gel

3/4 cup distilled water
1/4 cup shampoo concentrate (or substitute with 1/2 cup unscented shampoo and increase salt to 1 tsp.)
1/2 tsp. table salt
2 tbs. aloe vera gel
15 drops apple fragrance oil
1 drop green food coloring (optional)

Warm the water and pour into a ceramic bowl. Add the shampoo concentrate and stir until well mixed. Add the aloe vera gel, salt, apple fragrance oil and coloring. Stir until thick and well blended. Pour into a squeeze bottle and close

Gardening Soap

8 oz. M&P base
2 T. white cornmeal
1 1/2 T. fine pumice
1 T. bentonite clay
2 tsp. of a citrus essential oil (orange, lemon, etc.)

Melt base and scent. Stir in cornmeal, pumice, & clay continually until it gets to the point where it will stay suspended in the soap. By this time the soap will be quite thick and cool. Pour into molds.

Golden Milk Bath

Ingredients:
4 cups of milk powder
1 cup of boiled water
1/2 cup of dried chamomile or 6 chamomile tea bags

Instructions:
Steep the chamomile in water for about twenty minutes. After twenty minutes strain off the liquid if you used the dried chamomile and then mix the strained or tea bag liquid with the milk powder and then add it to your warm running bath water.