Imagine if you could buy a base that could be used to make a multitude of amazing products! Imagine Base does just that! Follow the recipes below to make your own fun and exciting bath and body products! (This area is a work in progress).....
Ingredients for our Imagine Base:Purified Water, TEA-Lauryl Sulfate, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Propylene Glycol, Cocamide DEA, DMDM Hydantoin, Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate.
Foaming Hand Soap: Make your own foamer! This recipe makes enough foamer to fill one of our 5oz. frosted foamer bottles. You will need to adjust the recipe for larger batches. Fill foamer bottle with 3/4 cup of Imagine Base. Add 2ml-4ml body safe fragrance oil (easily done by using one of our transfer pipettes). Add 4 drops of liquid soap dye.
Rinse-Free Shampoo: Imagine foaming base has been used in scented form as a Rinse-Free Shampoo in hospitals across America for many many years! It helps to clean your hair, and does not leave your hair greasy-looking. The following recipe makes enough rinse-free shampoo to fill our 8oz. PET bottles: 1 cup Imagine base + 2 to 4 ml of body safe fragrance oil (easily done by using one of our transfer pipettes) + 4 drops liquid soap dye (if desired).
Foaming Body Butter: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent foaming body butter. Words cannot express how much we love this recipe! For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, One of the following (Natural Soy body butter, Natural yogurt multi base, or Natural goat's milk multi base), Body Safe fragrance oil, and Liquid Soap Dye. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 10 cubes) to get 1 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Add 1 cup of Imagine Base + 1 Tablespoon of one of the following (Natural soy body butter, natural yogurt multi base, or natural goat's milk multi base). Using a mixer, mix very well until your mixture looks like very thick whipped butter. Allow to set at room temp for about 30 minutes. Add your desired amount of fragrance oil (we used 4 ml of fragrance) and liquid soap dye (10 drops) and beat the mixture again. For best results: allow mixture to stand at room temp covered overnight to allow product to deflate. Then, whip the product again until it is a thick cream. Place foaming body butter into jars. That is all there is to it!
Whipped Foaming Body Frosting: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent whipped foaming body frosting. For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, One of the following (Natural Soy body butter, Natural yogurt multi base, or Natural goat's milk multi base), Body Safe fragrance oil, and Liquid Soap Dye. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 10 cubes) to get 1 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Add 1 1/4 cup of Imagine Base + 1 Tablespoon of one of the following (Natural soy body butter, natural yogurt multi base, or natural goat's milk multi base). Using a mixer, mix very well until your mixture looks like very thick whipped frosting. Allow to set at room temp for about 30 minutes. Add your desired amount of fragrance oil (we used 4 ml of fragrance) and liquid soap dye (10 drops) and beat the mixture again. Place foaming body frosting into jars. That is all there is to it!
Foaming Bath Meringue: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent whipped foaming bath meringue. This particular product is great to make during spa parties, or when you plan to use the product soon. The volume of this product will decrease over time. For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, One of the following (Natural Soy body butter, Natural yogurt multi base, or Natural goat's milk multi base), Body Safe fragrance oil, and Liquid Soap Dye. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 5 cubes) to get 1/2 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Add 1 1/4 cup of Imagine Base + 1 Tablespoon of one of the following (Natural soy body butter, natural yogurt multi base, or natural goat's milk multi base). Using a mixer, mix very well until your mixture looks like very thick whipped meringue. Allow to set at room temp for about 30 minutes. Add your desired amount of fragrance oil (we used 4 ml of fragrance) and liquid soap dye (10 drops) and beat the mixture again. Place foaming bath meringue into jars. That is all there is to it!
Exfoliating Foaming Sugar Body Butter: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent exfoliating foaming sugar body butter. For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, One of the following (Natural Soy body butter, Natural yogurt multi base, or Natural goat's milk multi base), Body Safe fragrance oil, Liquid Soap Dye, and granulated sugar. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 10 cubes) to get 1 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Add 1 cup of Imagine Base + 1 Tablespoon of one of the following (Natural soy body butter, natural yogurt multi base, or natural goat's milk multi base). Using a mixer, mix very well until your mixture looks like very thick whipped butter. Allow to set at room temp for about 30 minutes. Add your desired amount of fragrance oil (we used 4 ml of fragrance), liquid soap dye (10 drops). For best results: allow mixture to stand at room temp covered overnight to allow product to deflate. Then, whip the product again until it is a thick cream. Add granulated sugar (use twice as much granulated sugar as you have body butter mixture), and beat the mixture again. Place exfoliating foaming body butter into jars. That is all there is to it!
Coffee Foaming Body Butter: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent exfoliating, and odor eliminating foaming coffee body butter. For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, One of the following (Natural Soy body butter, Natural yogurt multi base, or Natural goat's milk multi base), Body Safe fragrance oil, and ground coffee beans. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 10 cubes) to get 1 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Add 1 cup of Imagine Base + 1 Tablespoon of one of the following (Natural soy body butter, natural yogurt multi base, or natural goat's milk multi base). Using a mixer, mix very well until your mixture looks like very thick whipped butter. Allow to set at room temp for about 30 minutes. Add your desired amount of coffee scented fragrance oil (we used 4 ml of worlds best coffee fragrance oil). For best results: allow mixture to stand at room temp covered overnight to allow product to deflate. Then, whip the product again until it is a thick cream. Add ground coffee beans (4 Tablespoons) and beat the mixture again. Place exfoliating coffee foaming body butter into jars. That is all there is to it!
Soooo Cool Foaming Body Butter: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent, cooling affect body butter. For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, One of the following (Natural Soy body butter, Natural yogurt multi base, or Natural goat's milk multi base), and Crushed Menthol Crystals. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 10 cubes) to get 1 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Finely crush menthol crystals and add 1/4 tsp. to hot soap so that they dissolve. Add 1 cup of Imagine Base + 1 Tablespoon of one of the following (Natural soy body butter, natural yogurt multi base, or natural goat's milk multi base). Using a mixer, mix very well until your mixture looks like very thick whipped butter. For best results: allow mixture to stand at room temp covered overnight to allow product to deflate. Then, whip the product again until it is a thick cream. Place cooling body butter into jars. That is all there is to it!
Perfect Cupcake Soap Frosting: Imagine Base can be mixed with other Natures Garden products to create an excellent cupcake frosting for your cupcake soaps. For this recipe, you will need: Natural Melt and Pour Soap Base (your choice of soya milk, oatmeal, yogurt, goat's milk, cocoa butter, shea butter, or hemp), Imagine Base, Vegetable Glycerin, Body Safe fragrance oil, and Liquid Soap Dye. Melt down enough natural melt and pour soap (approximately 5 cubes) to get 1/2 cup of liquefied melt and pour soap. Add 4 Tablespoons of vegetable glycerin. Add 2 Tablespoons of Imagine Base, fragrance oil, and liquid soap dye. Using a mixer, mix until your mixture looks like very thick frosting. You will need to work relatively fast. Now frost your soap cupcake bottoms (which should have been made, set up, and popped out of their molds prior to frosting them). You can frost your cupcake bottoms by hand, by using a cake decorating bag, or by using a heavy duty cake decorating dispenser. Add candy sprinkles if you like. Allow frosting to set up on top of the cupcakes.
Shampoo/Body Wash: This shampoo recipe is the kind of shampoo that will need to be rinsed out of your hair once it is used. For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: Imagine Base, Distilled water, Xanthan gum, Soap dye (if desired), and Body safe fragrance oil. Step One: Create your thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 30 seconds. Using a mixer, slowly add 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 4 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Add 3 drops of soap dye, mix by hand. Finally, using a transfer pipette, add 2 ml. of body safe fragrance to the mixture and mix by hand. Allow completed mixture to set up for about 30 minutes, then pour mixture into an 8 oz. bottle. Xanthum gum in this recipe not only thickens the Imagine base, it also provides skin hydrating properties to the recipe.
Bath Gel: For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: Imagine Base, Distilled water, Xanthan gum, Soap dye (if desired), and Body safe fragrance oil. Step One: Create your thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 30 seconds. Using a mixer, slowly add 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 6 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Add 3 drops of soap dye, mix by hand. Finally, using a transfer pipette, add 4 ml. of body safe fragrance to the mixture and mix by hand. Allow completed mixture to set up for about 30 minutes, then pour mixture into an 8 oz. bottle. Xanthum gum in this recipe not only thickens the Imagine base, it also provides skin hydrating properties to the recipe.
Bubble Bath: For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: Imagine Base, Distilled water, Xanthan gum, Soap dye (if desired), Mica Pigment, and Body safe fragrance oil. Step One: Create your thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 30 seconds. Using a mixer, slowly add 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 4 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Add 3 drops of soap dye and 1/4 tsp. mica pigment mix by hand. Finally, using a transfer pipette, add 4 ml. of body safe fragrance to the mixture and mix by hand. Allow completed mixture to set up for about 30 minutes, then pour mixture into an 8 oz. bottle. Xanthum gum in this recipe not only thickens the Imagine base, it also provides skin hydrating properties to the recipe. The mica pigment allows your bubble bath to become more opaque.
Magic Potion Body Spray: We have created a very neat product that we have not seen on the market yet: A body spray that looks like gel in the bottle, but sprays onto the skin like regular body spray. This is made possible by thickening our Imagine Base with xanthan gum. Xanthan gum has a property called pseudoplasticity. When the gel encounters high shear forces, such as agitation or spraying out of a bottle, the gel will thin out. However, once the shear forces are removed, the product will gel up once again. For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: Imagine Base, Distilled water, Xanthan gum, Soap dye (if desired), and Body safe fragrance oil. Step One: Create your thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 30 seconds. Using a mixer, slowly add 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 3 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Add 3 drops of soap dye, mix by hand. Finally, using a transfer pipette, add 4 ml. of body safe fragrance to the mixture and mix by hand. Allow completed mixture to set up for about 30 minutes, then pour mixture into an 8 oz. bottle. Xanthum gum in this recipe not only thickens the Imagine base, it also provides skin hydrating properties to the recipe.
Icy Glitz Shampoo/Bath Gel: This shampoo recipe is the kind of shampoo that will need to be rinsed out of your hair once it is used. The addition of menthol crystals to this shampoo base allows for a cool, fresh feeling on your scalp and body! For this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: Imagine Base, Distilled water, Xanthan gum, Soap dye (if desired), and Crushed Menthol Crystals. Step One: Create your cooling, thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 60 seconds, add 1/8 teaspoon of crushed menthol crystals. Using a mixer, slowly add 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 4 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Add 3 drops of soap dye, mix by hand. Allow completed mixture to set up for about 30 minutes, then pour mixture into an 8 oz. bottle. Xanthum gum in this recipe not only thickens the Imagine base, it also provides skin hydrating properties to the recipe.
Amazing Layered Bath Gel: We created another product that we have never seen anywhere...Layered Bath Gel! That's right, you can put numerous colors of bath gel in the same bottle!!! This product provides skin hydrating, and a nice smooth glide for shaving. Step One: Create your thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 30 seconds. Using a mixer, slowly add 1 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 9 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Divide this mixture into a separate container for each color of bath gel you plan to make. Add 3 drops of soap dye of your choice to each container, mix by hand. Allow completed mixtures to set up for about 30 minutes. Finally, using a transfer pipette, divide 2-4 ml. of body safe fragrance amongst the containers, and mix by hand. Pour mixtures, one by one, into an 8 oz. bottle, layering the colors as you desire. To create a Tye Dye look, gently agitate the 8 oz. bottle.
Monster Snot Hand Soap for little boys: We created another product that we have never seen anywhere...Monster Snot Hand soap! We think little boys, and grown-ups who refuse to grow up will love this stuff! This product provides skin hydrating, and a nice smooth glide for shaving. Step One: Create your thickening xanthan gum slurry. This slurry is made by warming 1/2 cup of distilled water in the microwave for 30 seconds. Using a mixer, slowly add 1 teaspoon of xanthan gum powder to the distilled water and beat for about 5 minutes. This slurry should look like a very very thick gel; with no clumps of xanthan gum particles. Step Two: Pour 1 cup of Imagine base into a container that is safe to add fragrance to, and one that you will not be using to serve food later. Add 8 level teaspoons of your finished xanthan gum slurry to the Imagine base, and thoroughly mix by hand until the slurry combines with the Imagine base. The xanthan gum slurry will thicken the Imagine base. Add 3 drops of green soap dye to container, mix by hand. Allow completed mixture to set up for about 30 minutes. Finally, using a transfer pipette, add 2 ml. of body safe fragrance to the containers, and mix by hand. Pour mixture into an 8 oz. bottle.
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Natures Garden Candle Supply is not responsible for products you create from our bases. There are no returns or exchanges on any of our bath and body bases.
Other Supplies you may need:
Natural Soy Body Butter Base
Natural Yogurt Lotion Multi Base
Natural Goat's Milk Lotion Multi Base
Melt and Pour Soap Bases
Mica Pigment
Xanthum Gum Natural Thickener
Ritzy Bath Gel
Fragrance Oils
Essential Oils
Soap Dyes
Jars/Bottles/Lids
Soap Molds
Menthol Crystals
Pipettes
