Non-Edible Gifts

Soap Crayons
Supplies:
One ice cube tray
Liquid food color
2 Tablespoon hot water for each crayon
1 cup soap flakes
Small bowl
Spoon
Directions:
For each color, put two tablespoons of hot water and one cup of soap flakes into a bowl.
Add as many drops of food color to the mixture as you wish. Stir the soap mixture until it thickens. This takes time, so be patient!
Press spoonfuls of the first color of soap into the sections of the ice tray.
Mix enough soap in other colors to fill the ice tray, following the above directions again.
Let the soap crayons dry for one or two days. Gently bang the ice tray to loosen the crayons.
Pack them in a box for gift-giving.

Bath Bombs / Bath Fizzies
Ingredients:
2 Tablespoons citric acid (you can get this at a pharmacy)
2 Tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 cup baking soda
3 Tablespoons coconut oil (or any other emollient oil like almond, avocado or
apricot kernel oil)
1/4 teaspoon fragrance oil
3-6 drops of food coloring (if desired)
Paper candy cups
Directions:
Place all of the dry ingredients (first 3) into a bowl and mix well.
Place coconut oil into a small glass bowl and add fragrance and food coloring.
Slowly add oil mixture into dry ingredients and mix well. Scoop up small amounts of the mixture and shape into 1" balls.
Let the balls rest on a sheet of waxed paper for about 2 to 3 hours, then place each ball into a candy cup to let dry and harden for 24 to 48 hours.
Store bombs in a closed, air-tight container. To use, drop 1 to 3 bombs into warm bath water.
Candy Cane Bath Salts
Ingredients:
3 cups of Epsom salts
3 Teaspoons of Sweet Almond Oil
9 drops of Peppermint Essential Oil
1 drop of red food coloring ( more if you like)
1 drop of green food coloring
To Decorate:
several jars with turn lids or cork seals
red, green and white Christmas ribbon
several gift tags shaped like candy canes or several candy canes (small ones)
Directions:
To make the salts separate each of the three cups of salts into three bowls.
Separate each teaspoon of almond oil into three bowls.
Into one bowl of almond oil add the drop of red food coloring, into the second add the green.
Into each of the three bowls of oil add three drops of peppermint oil. Mix each bowl well.
After mixing pour each of the bowls of oils and coloring into one of the bowls of salt. This will leave you with a bowl of green a bowl of red and a bowl of white scented salts. Let sit for a few hours covered.
To create the candy cane effect layer layers of each color, a layer of red, a layer of green , a layer of white, over and over until you fill the jar.