MAKE YOUR OWN BATH SALTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20152, 12 January 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)

MAKE YOUR OWN BATH SALTS.

FRAGRANCE AND ECONOMY. Buy as many pounds of carbonate of soda crystals as you havo jars. Measure theso into lib. jam or glass jars or bottles, pouring a certain quantity into separate little enamel basins. It is a pood plan to wear rubber gloves, washing them very carefully when changing the scents, otherwise one would soon have the perfume mixed. To obtain a, lasting and delightful perfume, put a very few drops of sandalwood oil into the crystals, irrespective of whatver perfume is to be added, as it preserves the scent until the last crystal is used up. To perfume tho crystals use synthetic oil of neroli, or a drop or two of musk, a few drops of honey water or some oil of violets. Verbena or lavender oil aro cheaper, but everyone does not care for them. Various perfumes! may bo blended, but oil of violets should never be mxied with anything excepting the few drops of sandalwood oil. To colour tho salts make some ultra strong tea, strain and squeeze it through muslin, and add a few drops to tho salts to get tho browny-white pearly shade seen only in tho very expensive bath salts. A few drops of cochineal might be used if a pink shade is desired, but tho colour is more fleeting.