Assembling your Home Spa Equipment from Kitchen Items you Already Have

Your home spa equipment can consist of the sort of things you’ll find in your kitchen right now: All you need is some very basic equipment to facilitate natural organic skin care.

Creating home made spa treatments and herbal remedies is a lot of fun and really cheap to do if you concentrate on making things that you already have the resources to do. In fact, you may even be able to rival the spa treatment giants like Bath and Body Works, just by using a few items.

It is probably a good idea to keep the equipment you use for creating your home made spa treatments and herbal remedies solely for that purpose. This is because some of the essential oils used in various recipes can have a habit of leaving a residue. That residue, as good for you as it could well be, is probably better left out of your regular meals.

Get Ready to Create Some DIY Beauty Products

Your home spa equipment list is compiled below. It’s an essential tool kit that can comprise of second hand or older equipment, if you like. I’m sure everyone has an extra blender or glass bowl that is at the back of the cupboard gathering dust.

Blender

Blenders are ideal for making moisturizing creams and lotions that can be your own bath and beauty works. Blenders can also be used to grind herbs and grains loosely or into a fine powder.

Cutting board

Everyone has at least one spare cutting board lying around and they are essential home spa equipment. If you have more than one that you can allocate to your home spa items list, that’s even better.

Double boiler

Double boilers are perfect for making Home Spa products. Double boilers produce gentle, even heat that is ideal for making infused herbal oil products like massage oils, lip balms, eye creams, and moisturizers. Your double boiler should be stainless steel, enamel, or glass. Do not use aluminium, copper, Teflon, or cast iron.

Eyedroppers or pipettes

Glass eyedroppers or pipettes are perfect for measuring essential oils and resins that will help to make up your DIY beauty kits. If you don’t already have a spare one around the house that you can use, purchase a new one from a supermarket.

Funnels

You can buy sets of funnels in many different sizes. You will need funnels to fill bottles and containers with many different home spa treatments and herbal remedies.

Glass bowls

Glass bowls are real easy to clean. You’ll probably need a variety of bowls in different sizes to make your home remedies. You can read about some Native American Herbal Remedies by clicking here.

Gloves

Dishwashing gloves are fine for our purpose. Latex gloves are even better.

Grater

Useful for grating soap and other ingredients to make ingredients just like you would buy from Bath and Body Works.

Measuring cups and spoons

Naturally, you’ll need to measure your ingredients. Don’t make the mistake of just guessing the amounts, in some recipes exact measurements are a must.

Mortar and pestle

Great for crushing dried herbs, seeds, flowers, and bark as well as fresh fruits and vegetables pulps.

Paring knives

Another essential part of your home spa equipment, and great for cutting and chopping herbs, flowers, and fruits.

Saucepans

Stainless steel or enamel pans are the best, and you’ll need a good selection of pans made up of various sizes.

Spatula

You can’t have too many spatulas in your home spa equipment.

Spice mill or coffee grinder

While a blender will do the job fine, a spice mill is just perfect for grinding things like oatmeal, almonds, lavender, roses, as well as any number of different types of other herbs, grains and seeds. Plus, the fragrance of the powdered flowers and aromatic herbs you can create with one is divine.

Stirring rods

Chopsticks, wood or plastic, work really well, but if you can get your hands on some glass chemistry rods they are even better. Plus, the glass rods are so simple to clean.

Strainers

You will probably need a few different sized strainers.

Tongs

Try to have at least two sizes, long and short handled.

Vegetable peeler or zester

Great for removing zest from citrus fruits and vegetables.

Wire whisk

A wire whisk is perfect for mixing recipes for bath crystals and facial and body scrubs.

Glass containers (storage containers)

Clear glass containers are everywhere, but it’s the different coloured glass varieties(like amber and blue)that are far more popular. Other storage containers that are useful are spice shakers and woozeys.

Also handy are old tins that may have originally contained tea or biscuits.

Press and brew tea bags

Another essential if you are going to create your own tea are these ready to make tea bags. All you have to do is place 1 to 2 teaspoons of your herbs in the bag. You can read my article on herbal teas for weight loss here.

Muslin bagsYou’ll need lots of muslin bags in a variety of different sizes. They are drawstring bags that are useful for making herbal tea and herbal bath bags and are an important addition to your home spa equipment list.

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