MAKE YOUR OWN BATH SALTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20454, 4 January 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

MAKE YOUR OWN BATH SALTS.

FRACRANCE 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 good plan lo wear rubber gloves, _ washing them very carefully when changing the scents, otherwise one would soon havo the perfume mixed. To obtain a lasting and delightful perfume, put a very few drops of sandalwood oil into tho crystals, irrespective of whatever perfume is io bo added, as it preserves tho 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 dropsi of honey water or some oil of violets. Verbena or lavender oil are cheaper, but everyono does not care for them. Various perfumes may ho blended, but oil of violets should never bo mixed with anything excepting the few drops of sandalwood oil. To colour the salts make some ultra strong tea, strain and squeeze it through muslin, and add a few drops to the salts to get the browny-whito pearly shade seen only in the very expensive bath salts. A few drops of cochineal might bo used if a pink shade is desired, but the colour is moro fleeting.