Lavender Soap Balls

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Lavender Soap Balls

 

Save up those odds and ends of old soap, add a little lavender, and

you can make the sweetest, most relaxingly-scented soap balls to give

as gifts or keep to use with great pleasure yourself!

 

You won't believe how easy and how much fun these are to make.

Children love to help, too, and there is no cleverer way to get them

to wash their hands. (Moms will like the fact that lavender not only

smells heavenly, it is also antibacterial.) You will end up with a

charming finished product, very soothing to the senses. All in

practically no time!

 

2 bars mild, unscented castile or vegetable-based soap (or the

equivalent in odds-and-ends) 1/2 cup dried lavender blossoms

(available online from many herb

companies)

5 drops essential oil of lavender

1/4 cup warm water

 

Using a cheese grater, grate the soap into a large bowl. Add the

lavender blossoms to the grated soap. Add the essential oil to the

soap mixture, combining thoroughly. Add the warm water and stir. Roll

heaping tablespoons of the mix into balls. Place on a cookie sheet

and allow to air-dry completely, which will take approximately 2 days.

 

Adapted from The Herbal Home Spa, by Greta Breedlove (Storey Books,

1998).

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