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Bath cookies by our reader, A QT Forever 

Spa index Bath Cookies

Our most requested recipe!

2 cups finely ground sea salt
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 T light oil
1 tsp vitamin E oil
2 eggs
5-6 drops essential oil of your choice

Preheat your oven to 350 F. Combine all the listed ingredients and form into a dough.  Using a teaspoon or so of dough at a time, roll it gently in the palm of your hand until it forms a ball.  Form all dough into one teaspoon balls, and gently place them on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Consider sprinkling the bath balls with herbs, flower petals, cloves, citrus zest and similar aromatic ingredients.   Bake your bath cookies for ten minutes, until they are lightly browned. Do not over bake. Allow the bath cookies to cool completely. To use, Drop 1 or 2 cookies into a warm bath and allow to dissolve. Yield: 24 cookies, enough for 12 baths.

Would you like to share our recipes with others, or print them on your own website?  Please feel free!  We only ask that you take and share those recipes which are NOT credited to other providers (please seek their permission directly).  Otherwise, please credit us and link back to www.SpaIndex.Com so that we may keep the recipes flowing like water. Submit some of your own, too

 

Sharon G. comments:

"Hi! I enjoy your site, and appreciate all the recipes you provide. However, I just made the "Bath Cookie" recipe and I have to say I am quite disappointed. I followed the recipe exactly and found upon use that they sink like a rock, take a long time to dissolve and not completely at that- I think it is due to the egg. I did an internet search and found this exact recipe on many sites. I also found on a forum (for those who make bath products) that others have found this recipe to be terrible and have had the same experience I have with it. You should test the formulas before you post them.  Thank you."  Sharon G., Oregon.

Spa Index Responds:

"Whoooa, Sharon, first things first.  We DO  test each and every recipe we post, in the test kitchen in our office building, and, we use the products among our staff extensively, prior to posting.  We receive far more 'blah' recipes than worthwhile recipes, and testing is essential to sort the wheat from the chaff.

For that reason, while we regret you had unfortunate results, it would be impossible for us to surmise why the recipe is popular and works for some, but not others, without overseeing the process and knowing the quality of ingredients (fresh or not, large or small egg, hard or soft water, true temp oven, etc). 

I can't turn out a single decent loaf of bread in my home oven, but at the office oven, I turn out beautiful bakery-worthy bread because the "temp" is true and it doesn't overvent. The devil is in the details, as they say.

We have learned from one staff member that the Bath Cookies recipe doesn't work as well for her in hard water area, whereas with our water, which is quite soft, it works quite well.

As for finding the recipe on many sites, as stated on every single recipe we post, we encourage our recipes to be shared, and we are accustomed to them being reprinted on hundreds of sites. Our bath cookies has been posted since 1998, and we have used this recipe several times, particularly at the holidays.   It's our most requested recipe, with yours being the first negative feedback we have ever received.   

Here's a blog post from A QT Forever who had great results (and that's her photo, left, above).   Nevertheless, we are happy to post both your comment, and our observation regarding hard water vs. soft water, to alert future home spa enthusiasts that 'results may vary.'

Thanks for writing. We hope you can enjoy some of the other recipes."


 

 

 
 

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