How To Make Shower Steamers For Cold and Aromatherapy
Homemade shower steamers are easy to make and create a spa-like shower experience. As much as I love baths, sometimes they are not practical. A shower steamer helps to create a more relaxing shower, even when your rushing in the morning.
Servings: 8 ounces
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Scale
Ingredients
- 4.80 ounce | 60% Baking Soda
- 2.40 ounce | 30% Citric Acid
- 0.40 ounce | 5% Kaolin Clay
- 0.16 ounce | 2% Menthol Crystals
- 0.16 ounce | 2% Mad About Mint Fragrance Oil
- 0.08 ounce | 1% Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Instructions
- Dissolve your menthol crystals in your fragrance or essential oils. To make this process faster of if you are having a hard time getting them to melt, you can also use rubbing alcohol to dissolve them.
- Measure the baking soda, citric acid, and kaolin clay into a bowl. If you need to get rid of the clumps, you can push the mixture through a sifter or break them up with your fingers. Mix everything together.
- Mix in the dissolved menthol crystals and fragrance oil.
- Add mica powder. Be sure to give this a really good mix. I like to use my hands to mix it.
- Lightly spray the mixture with witch hazel and give it a good mix. You are going to do this until you get to the consistency of wet sand. It should hold its shape when you squeeze it in your hands.
- Place in your mold. You will really want to pack the mixture in.
- Allow the shower steamer to sit in the mold for a few minutes. Then remove from the mold.
- Let the shower steamers dry for several hours or overnight.
- Optional: Add melt and pour soap to decorate them. Melt a small amount of melt in pour soap in the microwave for a few seconds.
- Add mica powder. You may need to spray with rubbing alcohol to get it to mix in.
- Using a spoon, drizzle on the shower steamer.