4. Soothing Oatmeal Bath Bags

Combat winter woes and dry skin with a soothing lavender bath. These little sachets are always a crowd favorite and are the perfect, two-ingredient gift or component to a handmade natural beauty basket.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Farai Harreld:   This is so skin soothing and healing for people that are struggling with skin issues like dry skin and eczema, and I could not recommend this enough. Hi, my name is Farai Harreld. Today we are talking simple homemade gifts for the holidays, and this one is, might I say, probably the easiest one that I have ever made, and this is a hit.

So one thing about the cold weather is that people start to struggle with dry skin. Another thing that people may struggle with in the winter is eczema. So this is two ingredients. It’s oats and lavender. Throw it in a blender, pulverize it till it’s a powder, and then you throw it in a little muslin sachet like this, and then this just goes directly into the tub.

And if you’re feeling creative, if you have other herbs like calendula or rose, you can also throw those in here. And actually what I like to do is I tie this little sachet to the spout of the tub, and so as the water is flowing down into the tub, it fills the tub with this milky white, really skin soothing, moistening solution that’s coming from the oats.

And yeah, it’s really good for your skin. I can’t recommend this enough. And it would go perfectly with the herbal bath salts that we made in another video that also include herbs. And yeah, I think this would be a really thoughtful, really sweet homemade gift. So everything in this basket was thrifted.

And the beauty of hand making gifts is that you can control everything that goes into making this. So this basket was thrifted, this ribbon and these linens were thrifted, these jars are reused, these muslin sachets can be used for other things. And if you don’t want to use them, they can be composted. So that’s another thing that I love about homemaking gifts is that if you do it right, it can be earth friendly.