TO MAKE BATH SALTS.
With Christinas drawing near we are all thinking of thn Christmas presents we must give. Why not make your own bath salts and sorcio for your friends, too ? Tied with bright ribbons, they make a most attractive imd inexpensive gift. Here's an excellent recipe. Put required quantity of carbonitc of soda crystals into an enamel basin. | Drop in a few drr.ps of sandalwood oil, mid stir with a wooden spoon. Add youf perfume—either oil of rose geranium, oil of verbena, or oil of violets (about onniteaspoonful to a pound of crystals) and xestir. Colour with a little strong tea, strained through fine muslin. Tea tint! the salts a deep pearly colour, and will not come off in the water or harm the skin, jas a dye might. For containers, use any attractive glass bottle or jar with a tightly-fitting top. Those which oiice contained bought bath salts are the best, of course. You can make your bottles pretty by painting them with a flower pattern in oil paints or by giving tho top knob a tie-up of gay ribbon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20131, 17 December 1928, Page 7
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