The holidays can be stressful, so why not unwind with a nice hot bath filled with Christmas-scented bath salts? These adorable Santa Claus bath salts make great gifts and are adorable on the tree!
Making your own bath salts is incredibly easy (and a tiny bit addictive!) and you can whip up a large batch in a few minutes. I’ve been on a bit of a kick and we’ll all be taking a lot of baths this winter!
The holidays are the perfect time to be a little extra so instead of dumping my minty bath salts into a giant glass jar I hit up the Dollar Tree and turned them into Santa ornaments!
This year they have large lightbulb-shaped plastic ornaments with a screw top. The screw top is important if you’re trying to avoid a mess!
The large bulbs hold about a cup of bath salts and you’ll be able to make 4 from this batch with a little left over.
You’ll also need a gold marker for the belt buckle, I was originally going to cut them with my Cameo but decided it was easier to to draw them on by hand.
I’ve been using Bic Fine Metallic Permanent pens for quite a bit of my holiday crafting and I’ve been really happy with them.
While you’re at the Dollar Tree I recommend picking up a few more items for your bath salt-making experiments.
Once you use something with fragrance oils you don’t want to use it for food, so cheap supplies that won’t be confused with your legit kitchenware are great to have.
Bath Salts Supplies
You don’t need anything especially fancy to make bath salts but you do need supplies earmarked for crafting that will never again be used for food.
Most of my bath and body supplies come from the Dollar Tree. I tend to use glass and metal over plastic in my kitchen so it’s easy enough for me (and my kids and fiance) to remember what gets used for what.
It also helps that most of the kitchen supplies from Dollar Tree are bright red. I use:
- Large Plastic Mixing Bowl with Handle
- McCormick Measuring Cups
- McCormick Measuring Spoons
- Spatula
- Small Paper Cups
The only disposable thing I use is the small paper condiment cups. I use them to mix the fragrance oil with the colorants and polysorbate 80.
It’s also really helpful to keep paper towels on hand to clean up any spills.
Measuring vs Weighing
When you look up bath salts recipes almost all of them require weighing ingredients over measuring. It’s much, much more precise to use a scale.
At the same time, not everyone has a kitchen scale and that shouldn’t be the only thing to stand in your way from making your own bath supplies!
Unlike cosmetics or edibles, you have a lot of wiggle room before you get into unsafe territory. The most dangerous (more like irritating) ingredients you’ll be using are the fragrance oils.
Santa Claus Bath Salt Ornaments
The holidays can be stressful, so why not unwind with a nice hot bath filled with Christmas-scented bath salts? These adorable Santa Claus bath salts make great gifts and are adorable on the tree!
Materials
- 4 cups of Epsom Salt and/or Sea Salt
- 1 teaspoon Jack Frost Fragrance
- 1/2 teaspoon Polysorbate 80
- Red Mica or soap colorant
- 1 cup Black Salt
Tools
- 4 Large Plastic Ornaments with Screw Top
- Large Mixing Bowl (one used only for crafts, not food)
- Small Paper Cup
- Spatula
- Mask
- Gloves
- Large Plastic Bag
- Funnel
- Cup to support ornament
- Gold Marker
Instructions
- Combine Jack Frost Fragrance Oil, Red Mica, and Polysorbate 80 in a small cup
- Add the Epsom and sea salts to the bowl
- Pour in liquid ingredients and stir until fully combined
Place the large plastic bag in the cup so it overhangs to catch any spills and set the ornament in the cup- Fill just under halfway with the red salts using the funnel
- Tap or use a pencil to move the salt into a flat layer
- Add 3-4 tablespoons of black salt and repeat the flattening process
- Fill the remaining space with more red salt
- Screw on the top
- Draw a gold square to make the belt buckle
Notes
Polysorbate 80 is an emulsifier than allows the fragrance and mica to mix with the water instead of floating on top
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