I want to prove you can have the same, actually – better – experience with a product and pay less for it while I create little joys.
How did I get here? I’ve been like millions of others, diving into old school recipes to bypass the toxic grift and be healthier, wealthier and wiser.
I keep making natural stuff I love or my children’s children love and make them so they aren’t harmful to you.
Here’s what I’ve enjoyed about the process to confidently offer anyone and everyone who also like these experiences. I’m awake now and I realize it’s time to figure out how to have today’s pampering with yesterday’s ingredients.
At first, I just wanted to see if I could make them.
For the Oh Hey Potty Spray, Once I had Poo-Pouri I didn’t want to use the restroom without it, nor my family. Why would you ever not pre spray before you go and truly not have to experience the odor it makes for every single person.
Plus, I have a whole theory on fecal smell that is for another day and I think that the pre spray of oils and emulsifiers must someone trap the airborne disgustigions from making their way to your face, whether yours or worse, someone else’s.
My issue was the price. I forgot the math I read online once, but it was to the effect that at $4-6 an ounce, it was hundreds of dollars a gallon. I wanted to create a positive experience for the company I worked for that had multiple locations and hundreds of employees and not try to fund that.
I also have the coolest grandma ever who lives in a resident care facility with my aunt two miles away and daily with her. The ladies at those facilities are heroes. My goodness. Understaffed, underpaid and fully caring for our senior humans whose bodysuits are fully detaching from their brain’s ability to make them move correctly and mental deterioration and full digestive systems that work just fine.
So I did start the Pinterest worm holes to find a recipe that I could work with and with a twist – because believe me there’s many recipes online and vary from amounts to products yet all have same core ones – the essential oils and some type of soap and rubbing alcohols of different grades and distilled or reversed osmosis waters.
So I played around and fulfilled my goal of providing supplies to both aforementioned places and then went ahead and bottled a batch for friends to try, and set up at the gift shop for the art gallery in town.
For the nursing homes, it’s actually probably safe to also spray over messes that need cleaning or tap under the ole nostrils to smell that first. I was thinking of seeing how we could work out just making it by the gallon for them and they can refill and be totally affordable for the Medicaid seniors with no budgets.
I just find joy in this sort of thing now.
Yes I love painting. And yes I embrace the Sasquatch persona people associate with me because of my paintings, coasters and magnets I make. It’s SO much fun and something me and me enjoy doing while home and relaxing. I’d do it more often if I could.
Yet I also enjoy making these things that I think other people will enjoy too. It’s challenged me in so many new ways and reawakened many skills I thought were a thing of the past.
Like math, for instance. And creating efficiency with ingredients that overlap for bulk purchasing to keep investment down even more.
For my prayer candles, I have to convert weight ounces into fluid ounces for pouring accuracy and then I have to convert drops to tsps and watch thermometers for exact temps to add my essential oils to the natural soy and then at the precise time to pour each shot glass before the pot temp cools fast as the vat gets emptier.
It’s so cool.
And oh how I love hunting for people’s shot glasses at thrifts and goodwills and flea markets. So many stories and memories and collections were in them before I prayed and poured them.
Same goes for my potty spray. I do the drops to tsps and I also have to do the math by how many ounces I make into liters and gallons because I began mixing them in empty spring water gallon jugs to make the sprays and the funnel pour them into the individual bottles.
Also to break down my cost per ounce determinations to make shipping estimate tools and bottles and labels so I could determine what I could still offer them to places locally or somewhere else that can greatly benefit from not smelling the public poo places.
Now that I can make it and use it always.
Those are the things I thing about when covering my nose at Costco.
Next win of fun art?
Oh Hey Bath bombs.
My amazing and precious granddaughter T Bird love bath bombs and even better, bath bombs with surprises inside.
Here’s the problem. I shop her “organic” ones from Amazon and the surprise is fine, some little trinket thing, but I can’t understand how they’re natural when you can’t see her toes and the tub has rings from the colors in them.
Now, I have researched and found recipes that include food coloring. I do not do that and choose to be dye free. They will always be white in color because it’s regular stuff.
Please check the back of your bath bombs for yourself or kids or anyone and check it out. They’re also shrink wrapped in plastic.
So I started researching how to make natural ones that still fizzle for rizzle and what if, just what if, I could make them so they are healthy and beneficial to your skin and health?
I think I nailed it thanks to my coworker and friend and family tester groups. They’re wanting to order more.
Hence my, hmmm, ok – math.
Now I do admit I order random stuff online for as low cost as possible to stuff inside them, but it’s actually for kids or adult versions.
I thought sure I can put little animals or trinkets for kids, yes – I am doing that and thinking themes or just being random as heck. Either way, it’ll be fun and way healthy bath. I also thought about what I’d put in them if I had teens or young adults or even older adults – basically it’s not for people who like bath bombs, it’s for people who like baths.
And fizzled surprises.
I have to make sure the kids don’t put them in their mouths. So I put that on the label of course, and then I thought I could make smaller bath bombs without any choke hazards and they’ll be perfect for shallow baths that you do for infants and toddlers.
Because I am SO proud about how healthy they are.
I made a few batches and used tissue paper to individually wrap them. I didn’t have any cute surprises yet, they were ordered, so I used class gem stones you buy in a bag to put on plants or vases to see what packing in a surprise would be like.
Let the testing begin.
Friends were snap chatting me the fizzling and of all ages and the yummy peppermint or honeysuckle smells (both have great benefits when applied to your body as essential oils).
Made me feel so joyful that I made something that was enjoyed by others. And good for them.
Yes.
It’s also math and mixing and consistency. Playing around with ingredients and also what to put inside.
For teens and adults I started with sea shells, metal old keys, necklaces, healing stones, and random funny plastic things like a surprised pickle. Haha I laughed while making them and enjoyed all the practicing.
I landed on unrefined coconut oil, baking powder, corn starch, Citric acid (find it in the canning aisle), epsom salt, essential oil, water.
Each ingredient has a benefit to soaking your body in it.
From headaches, muscle soreness, stress, sinus, moisturize, exfoliate – bam bam bath bomb!
Part deux – what if the inside discovery has a story behind it, or an increasing character story series and if you wanted, you could listen to a 20 minute story about the contents inside? Discuss…..
So the citric acid and the essential oils safe for body do make them a wee bit higher in investment, even with a low threshold of contents inside to be more trinkets than gold, they’re funny and you can sit on a shelf or some magnet to a fridge or jewelry or stick them on your desk, or gift them to a friend.
Either way, I now understand why my one friend says she drives into city for a mall that has a natural store for bath bombs and I can totally make them less than that and with a gift inside and shipped! Say WHa?
Man this is fun. I like doing it. I ask myself and I think I have enough variety that batching each one each day is totally do able and next up –
Oh Hey Room Spray.
I always loved Febreeze. I can see myself over the years spraying pillows and rugs and curtains and couches and then inhaling it and being like, oh yeah that’s so fresh.
OOOH
It’s probably even worse than the poos at Costco. Look at these microplastics and metal crazy stuff. My WHOLE family has been sniffing the fragrant glue for YEARS
Not anymore. Sure, I may have ordered some spray bottles that ultimately made their way here from China but the stuff inside is literally four things. Witch Hazel, Essential Oils, Reversed Osmosis Water and there it is – better than Febreeze.
I do use floral and clean and woodsy musky smells with the oils.
Because I like them and I hope you do too.
Thanks for reading,
Heather
PS My kids are helping me set this up on TikTok. Fun times collaborating with my family. It’s Oh.Hey.Bath.Bombs I have a shop link here too, but if local I will deliver.
