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Chocolate-milk bath bon-bons
8 T powdered milk (or powdered buttermilk or milk/buttermilk combo)
.5 oz cocoa butter
.25 oz chocolate chips or baker's chocolate
optional:
Up to 2 T powdered cocoa (for hot cocoa) in place of milk, for darker chocolate color
mint or orange eo (for mint-chocolate or orange-chocolate!)
chocolate FO to boost chocolate smell.
Measure out dry ingredients into bowl. Melt cocoa butter in glass bowl in microwave in 45 second intervals until mostly melted, add in chocolate chips, heat 30 seconds. Remove and mix cocoa butter/chocolate (I use a chopstick). Add any eo/fo to the melted mix after it cools a bit, stir well. Add cocoa butter/chocolate to dry ingredients, mix well with chopstick, and with hands if necessary (careful, it might still be hot!) Pack into candy molds of 1T size or bigger. Pop into freezer for about 10 min, take out, pop out, Wala! I use about 2 per bath, and it's not over-oily from the cocoa butter. If you like it a bit oilier, you can up the cocoa butter a bit. Crumble it into the bath when the water is being drawn, since it doesn't melt much on it's own.
Word of warning: don't re-heat these. I had a batch that was a bit crumbly, and I thought I could reheat it, but I got a gooey mess. So, if you have a crumbly batch, either crumble it all up and add more cocoa butter, or just crumble and put in a jar.
I was thinking you could make chocolate-milk bath fizzies by replacing the cornstarch with powdered milk, use .5-.75 oz cocoa butter per 8T dry ingredients, add chocolate FO, and make it like the bon-bons. Also, I've made bath bombs using .5oz shea butter per 8T dry ingredients, and right from the freezer they're fine (I made a 2oz one in a muffin tin and the bath was at about just the right oily level for me) but later they got a bit crumbly. Maybe the mix needs a bit more shea than cocoa butter (since I also made some with .5oz cocoa per 8T and they're just fine). anyway, the 2oz shea butter bath bomb lasted about 4.5 mins!
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
--Rabindranath Tagore
Honey Cleansing Scrub
Mix 1 tablespoon of honey with 2 tablespoons finely ground almonds and 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice. Rub gently onto face. Rinse off with warm water.
