DIY Bath Salt Christmas Ornament – Perfect for a Gift

In the spirit of Christmas, learn how to make this incredible Bath Salt Christmas Ornament. They are a marvelous gift that is completely customizable to suit your needs. Plus, they are super easy to make!

I wish I had a bathroom that was large enough for a Christmas tree. I would 100% make a bunch of different colors and scents to decorate the tree. Then, each night use a different bath salt! It would be like the advent calendar, but with a tree and bath salts.

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Colorant

You have a few options on how to add color to your bath salts: mica powder or lake dyes.

Mica Powder – One of my favorite things about mica powder is how shimmery it is. I also love that mica powder is available in just about every color you can think of. However, if you are looking to color the bath water, mica powder doesn’t add much color.

Lake dyes- Using a lake dye is going to give your bath water color. Lake dyes typically come in two different forms, a liquid and a powder dye. Since we don’t want the salt mixture to get too wet or for it to dissolve, I would recommend using the powder form.

I like to get the best of both worlds, so I use them both. I use the mica powder because I have sooooo many colors to choose from and I use the lake dye to color the bath water.

Botanicals

My favorite botanical in the bath is flower petals. (If you are interested, here is a bath bomb that has rose petals in it).

The sky is the limit with your bath salt Christmas ornament, so add any botanicals you fancy to your bath salts.

Fragrance

Essential Oils

Use some caution when selecting your fragrance. If you decide you want to use essential oils, then you are going to want to ensure your ornament is glass. Turns out that essential oils can actually damage and deteriorate plastic containers.

Fragrance Oil
However, feel free to use literally any fragrance oil that you want in plastic containers. You could go with some traditional Christmas scents like Peppermint or Apple Cinnamon fragrance oil. Or, you could change it up a little bit and go with a Champagne or even a scent with more floral or citrus notes.

Bath Salt Christmas Ornament Ingredients

Epsom Salt – This is the main ingredient in our bath salt recipe. Weirdly enough, epsom salt is not actually a salt. It is called a salt because of the crystalized structure that mirrors salt. Epsom Salt is well known for its relaxing abilities.

Baking soda – One of the reasons why I use baking soda is because it’s good for your skin. In the winter, I sometimes get eczema and baking soda helps to relieve it. It is also used to promote detoxifying your body.

Dendetric salt – We use this salt to help to absorb the fragrance oil and to prevent clumping in the bath salt ornament. It also dissolves really fast and will disperse the fragrance into the bath water almost immediately.

Ornaments – Any plastic fillable ornament will work for these. You could go with regular bulb, lights, or tree shaped.

Making the bath salt ornaments

1. Weight out all of your ingredients.

2. Put the dendritic salt and fragrance oil in a bowl and mix together.

3. Add the Epsom salt and baking soda and mix well.

4. Separate the mixture into 2 different bowls.

5. In one of the bowls, add red mica powder and mix well.

6. Place your ornament in a bowl or cup to hold it. Then start layering in the bath salts.