This is a wonderful party plan to increase sales of your bath
salts.

If you do not know how to make bath salts, I put the instructions
at the end of this party plan.

This party plan is fun, exciting and will have your guests’ feet
feeling oh so sweet.

You will need the following things for your party:

Refreshments (Cookies and tea or Cake and coffee is fine)

Olive Oil (4 tablespoons per guest)

A clean towel per guest (hand towels work great)

Foot soaking container per guest

You can use large plastic bowls, bath containers from the
hospital or do as I do, buy cheap rubber maid containers.  Just
make sure they are large enough for two feet to fit in
comfortably.

First, invite as many friends as you like to come to your party.
Ask them to wear clean socks, as they will be getting their feet
wet.  Once your friends arrive have them sit down and take their
shoes off and place a container at each guest’s feet.

Fill the containers with warm (NOT HOT) water.  Pass out one bag
of salts to each guest.    Next, grab your olive oil, and ask
each guest to pour half a bag of their salts in one hand, then
you add 2 tablespoons of olive oil in their hands.

Have them rub one foot gently with the oil and salts then place
their foot in the tub of warm water.   You continue moving to
each guest, and as you are done, start again with the first guest
and have them use the rest of their salts (give another 2
tablespoons of olive oil) to their other foot.

Once all of your guests have soaked their salt soaked feet for
about 5 minutes, you will then want them to scrub the oils off
their feet (provide soap if some prefer it) and dry them with the
towels.

Your guest’s feet will feel soft, silky smooth and very good once
they have completed their foot spa.

Now serve refreshments. As your guests eat, inform them that they
may also purchase salts to take home with them so they can pamper
their feet at home as well.  Tell them it is also very romantic
for them to give the treatment to their spouses.

To make bath salts to resell for this party plan, you will need
epsom salts, food coloring, sea salt, cocoa butter and fragrance.

Mix 2 bags of epsom salts, 2 ounces of grated cocoa butter and 1
cup of fine sea salt in a stainless steel bowl.

Add enough colorant to color your salts to your likeness, then
mix 2 tablespoons of fragrance with the mixture and mix
thoroughly until everything is incorporated well.

Package your salts by spooning them into small zip-lock bags that
can be obtained in the Crafts section of Wal-Mart.  Add an
attractive label, and your salts are ready to resell for some
welcome extra cash.

The smaller bags like these are usually sold for 50 cents to
$1.00 per bag.

AMMONIA - Under the various titles of “Smelling Salts,” “Preston Salts, ” Inexhaustible Salts,” “‘Eau de Luce,” ” Sal Volatile,” ammonia, mixed with other odoriferous bodies, has been very extensively consumed as material for gratifying the olfactory nerve.

The perfumer uses liq. amm. fortis, that is, strong liquid ammonia, and the sesqui-carbonate of ammonia, for preparing the various’ salts” that he sells. These materials he does not attempt to make; in fact, it is quite out of his province so to do, but he procures them ready for his hand through some manufacturing chemist.

The best preparation for smelling-bottles is what is termed INEXHAUSTIBLE SALTS, which is prepared thus: -

Liquid ammonia - 1 pint
Otto of rosemary - 1 drachm
” English lavender - 1 “
” bergamot - ½ “
” cloves - ½ “

Mix the whole together with agitation in a very strong and well-stoppered bottle.

This mixture is used by filling the smelling-bottles with any porous absorbent material, such as asbestos, or, what is better, sponge cuttings, that have been well beaten, washed, and dried.

These cuttings can be procured at a nominal price from any of the sponge-dealers, being the trimming or roots of the Turkey sponge, which are cut off before the merchants send it into the retail market.

After the bottles are filled with the sponge, it is thoroughly saturated with the scented ammonia, but no more is poured in than the sponge will retain, when the bottles are inverted; as, if by any chance the ammonia runs out and is spilt over certain colored fabrics, it causes a stain. When such an accident happens, the person who sold it is invariably blamed.

When the sponge is saturated properly, it will retain the ammoniacal odor longer than any other material; hence, we presume, bottles filled in this way are called “inexhaustible,” which name, however, they do not sustain more than two or three months with any credit; the warm hand soon dissipates the ammonia under any circumstances, and they require to be refilled.

For transparent colored bottles, instead of sponge, the perfumers use what they call insoluble crystal salts (sulphate of potass). The bottles being filled with crystals are covered either with the liquid ammonia, scented as above, or with alcoholic ammonia.

The necks of the bottles are filled with a piece of white cotton; otherwise, when inverted, from the non-absorbent quality of the crystals, the ammonia runs out, and causes complaints to be made.

The crystals are prettier in colored bottles than the sponge; but in plain bottles the sponge appears quite as handsome, and, as before observed, it holds the ammonia better than any other material.

Perfumers sell also what is called white smelling salts, and preston salts. The White Smelling Salt is the sesqui-carbonate of ammonia in powder, with which is mixed any perfuming otto that is thought fit, lavender otto giving, as a general rule, the most satisfaction.