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TYPE: Mother's Day Crafts
Soothing Scents Bath Oil
Date Submitted: August 20, 2007
This make-at-home herbal body and bath oil is a great way to add comfort to your life in a quick, simple way. Massage a few drops into weary muscles or add a small amount into a steaming tub of bath water. Lavender and rose essential oils provide the calming effect in this recipe. 
Materials:
- Decorative glass bottle with cork, 5 inches tall
- Assorted dried flower heads, your choice, approximately 12 pieces: globe amaranth; lavender; larkspur
- Dried mini rosebuds, approximately 40
- Spanish moss
- 3/8-inch sheer ribbon, two coordinating shades of pink, 2/3 yard each
- Almond oil, 8 ounces
- Essential oils, lavender, 12 drops; rose, 4 drops
- Vitamin E oil, 8 drops
- Paraffin wax
- 28-gauge cloth-covered wire, 3 inches
- Hot glue gun
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Wire cutters
- Glass measuring cup
- Wood spoon
- Double boiler
- Empty coffee can (optional)
1. Wash and dry bottle thoroughly. Place dried flower heads inside bottle.
2. Mix all oils in glass measuring cup. Pour mixture into bottle and insert cork firmly.
3. Melt paraffin wax in double boiler. If desired, pinch coffee can to form spout; place wax in can, then can in part filled with water. Dip cork and top of bottle into melted wax let harden. Repeat dipping until a thick seal forms.
4. To decorate the bottle, glue Spanish moss around neck of bottle.
Layer sheer ribbon to make a small multi-loop bow with 6-inch streamers; use cloth-covered wire to secure bow center. Glue bow to center front of bottle top, nestling it in moss. Refer to the photo to twist bow streamers in pairs (one of each color), and spot glue to bottle front. Glue a cluster of three rosebuds to cover one "tacked" spot on each streamer.
Note: Glue clusters asymmetrically.
5. Refer to the photo to glue remaining rosebuds to form wide ring around bottle neck.
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