bath salts again, please

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

I am still trying to put together and package high quality bath salts. As

simple as it seems, I am having problems packaging them. I am in humid South

Carolina, so sometimes the mix becomes a mess when fos or eos are added. I

have been working with fumed silica and mag carb to improve flow, anticaking,

scent retention, etc.---and they do help, but I don't get the results that I

am looking for. In addition to good flow, etc. I am wanting to have a better

" feel " . I have tried commercial brands of salts that make the bath water

feel " sort of soft and silky " for lack of a better way to describe it. I

like the feel of bicarbonate of soda when it is added to the water. Any

suggestions for other ingredients that may help are certainly welcome! The

salts I use for myself I always just toss in the bath and then add a few

drops of eo and it works fine.

I am seriously thinking about packaging the salts separately from the fo/eo,

by attaching the tiny 1/6 dram vials for the customer to add at bath

time---what do yall think? Also, I have seen salts recently in some nicer

shops that are in chunks almost and are colored and have scent---would any of

you know how this is done? There is a bed and breakfast nearby that is

interested in purchasing bath salts, so I need to figure this silly thing

out! If any of you have thoughts or suggestions it would be most

appreciated.

Thanks!

Angie

[Guest guest]

HI, sounds like you may have to come up with a 'dry' room. This is what

I would do. At present I do soap but do it in a separate room with a

de-humidifier in it. I would feel confident in doing bath salts in such

a room but would feel compelled to put them in airtight packaging for

sale.

You might want to do such an arrangement and this way you could mix them

and let them set out for a time in the dryer environment to make sure

all residual moisture is taken out then package them. I suspect this is

somewhat how factories do them.

I do not live in a particularly humid areas(at least not all the time)

but find that my soaps suffer if they are not kept dry in storage.

Humidity shortens the shelf life.

Just some thoughts,

-Ilene

> I am still trying to put together and package high quality bath

> salts. As

> simple as it seems, I am having problems packaging them. I am in

> humid South

> Carolina, so sometimes the mix becomes a mess when fos or eos are

> added. I

[Guest guest]

I'm in Missouri, which is no stranger to humidity. I mix the salts in

batches, add the fragrance...then let them sit overnight in a dry area,

loosely covered, then stir again before packaging. If I'm making the fizzy

type, I add the citric acid the second day.

I've found that for any salts, they need to breath, packaging them airtight

will cause them to solidify. In fact, that's how I make my salt bricks.

Mix, add the fragrance and immediately fill the container and seal.

Customers break off the amount they want to use for each bath.

Jan Flood oakridge@...