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Bath and body gift sets that you find in bath and body shops are exquisite. Carefully color co-ordinated, featuring wonderful fragrances, bath and body gift sets are something every woman enjoys receiving.
There are gift sets aimed at specific audiences: tweens, teens, men, women and the anti aging crowd. You can also purchase aromatherapy gift baskets that promote relaxation, envigorization, or treat skin conditions.
While all of these bath and body gift sets, are all undoubtedly lovely, unfortunately, they are far overpriced! If you are longing for a severe case of sticker shock, just visit one of these bath & body retailers.
Bath and body gift sets are marked up from 600-2000% over the cost of making them. A gift set selling for $50.00 has material costs of about $8.33;. The actual costs is probably even less as retailers get reduced prices from buying their supplies in bulk.Common ingredients in many sets of this type are baking soda and Epsom salt, hardly the priciest items on the store shelves! Often, they do not use essential oils to fragrance their creations; they resort to using much cheaper fragrance oils with synthetic ingredients instead.
Bath and body gift sets that you make yourself can feature many lovely products. You can include lotions; lotion or massage bars; bath salts; bath teas; lip balms and more that you create and customize yourself. You can make versions of these products that have unusual and memorable scents; for instance, pear and ginger or red grapefruit and ylang ylang.
You can also color your bath and body gift sets just how you would like. You can make gorgeous bath salts that feature multi-colored layers just by dividing your bath salt batch up and tinting separate portions. Then they are simply placed in their containers in layers for a memorable effect.
Bath and body gift sets that you make at home have one special difference over the commercial versions made in stores. You have total control over the ingredients that go into them. Your recipient won't be getting a basket full of harmful chemicals or cheap artificial fillers like they would in a commercial set.
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