Add a homemade touch to holiday gifts or your winter personal care by creating themed bath, body, and candle products. Bulk Apothecary sells apothecary products for making candles, balms, soaps, and more. Here is a list of five of our favorite holiday recipes:
1. Snowy Evergreen Holiday Candles
Create the pine scent of a winter forest in your living room with a Snowy Evergreen candle. To make this candle, prepare a jar or candle holder by taping a wick in place. Melt EcoSoya candle wax with a double boiler over medium heat. One ounce of wax, or five cups, will make one 24-ounce candle or three 8-ounce candles. Mix in a third of one of our Forest Green color blocks to create a rich green color for your candle. Take the melted wax off the heat, and add our Snowy Evergreen fragrance oil. Pour your candles and let them cure for several days.
2. Peppermint Sugar Scrub Cubes
Add a holiday twist to your shower routine with peppermint sugar scrub cubes. Combine white sugar, our White SFIC Glycerin soap base, sweet almond oil, and peppermint essential oil to form an exfoliating scrub. Our Shimmer Merlot soap color gives the product a deep red color. Silicone molds give the scrub cubes smooth surfaces and clean edges. These scrub cubes are helpful for removing dry, dead skin from areas like the elbows and knees.
3. Orange Clove Lip Balm
Orange and clove scents complement each other, creating a Yuletide scent similar to potpourri or spiced cider. To make lip balm, mix and heat shea butter, sunflower oil, and chopped beeswax on a double boiler. Once melted, add our organic Clove Bud and Pure Orange essential oils for a festive scent. Our collection of apothecary products includes lip balm containers, such as tubes and tins.
4. Vanilla Cocoa Body Butter
Cocoa powder and our version of the Warm Vanilla Sugar fragrance oil form a sweet cocoa scent for winter body butter. Dissolve your cocoa in olive oil, and follow the rule of two to three parts cocoa to one part olive oil. Add fragrance oils to our Unscented Body Butter/Heavy Cream Base according to your preferences, and then mix. Blend the mixture well and store the butter in an airtight container to maintain its freshness.
5. Gingerbread Man Soap
Gingerbread Men soap makes unique products for Christmas markets or stocking stuffers for friends and family. This simple recipe requires a melt-and-pour soap base, our gingerbread man soap mold, and fragrance oil. To match the colors of a gingerbread cookie, you can use our Oatmeal SFIC Melt and Pour Soap Base or use a lighter soap base and add color. Two fragrance options for this soap are Christmas Wish and Butterscotch Cookie Dough. Browse our holiday and food fragrance oils for additional scent options for your Christmas-themed soaps.
Shop Apothecary Products at Bulk Apothecary
At Bulk Apothecary, we offer supplies like jars, bottles, and decorative bags to help you create appealing packaging for your homemade gifts. You can use our online templates to create your labels or order custom labels on our website. Call or email us today to learn more about our apothecary products.
