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Water Dispersible Bath Oils
Water dispersible bath oils are very easy to make. They have the great advantage over regular bath oil because they mix through the water. The oils cover your body rather than floating on top of the water. When you get out of the tub you can just gently pat yourself dry and there is no need to apply lotion. Best of all, the lovely fragrance of the perfume oils carry you through the day or night.
To make any oil water dispersible you add 10-20% of Polysorbate 80 and mix them well. For example:
If you are not a person that takes baths these oils can be applied directly to your skin after getting out of the shower. When you massage them onto the skin they mix with the water. Lightly Pat yourself dry. Don't forget the man in your life. This is a great way for him to combat dry skin without having to apply a heavier lotion.
Here are some useful tips when making up these oils
- It's always a good idea to mix an anti-oxidant into a bath oil formula to keep your vegetable oils from going rancid and your essential oils from deteriorating. I recommend Vitamin E or Rosemary Oleoresin.
- If you are going to color the oils make sure your colorant is "oil soluble" or it won't mix in.
- Package the oils in either glass bottles or PET plastic. Some plastics start to collapse when they have oil in them and the essential oils "leach out" through the plastic.
- I use a higher percentage of essential oils in my bath oils. Usually you only need add one capful of oil to a tub of water. I usually use about 20ml of essential oil per liter of oil.
- Since there is no water added to the oils you do not need a preservative.
- You can add other ingredients such as lecithin to your oils for extra skin conditioning
- I've seen some nice layered bath oils. These are achieved by adding ingredients that don't mix with oil such as Glycerin or Honey. Shake them up before adding them to the bath. If you add these ingredients you still need no preservative as they have their own anti-microbial properties.
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