Non-Food Products Gifts Recipes

"This makes an excellent gift. Make sure you make some for yourself too though because it really smells wonderful. Please note, you need to use whole cloves. Ground cloves are much stronger and will definitely overwhelm the other scents. If you aren't a fan of cloves, feel free to leave them out entirely. I do sometimes."

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cloves...

"My daughters and I make these every year. You can change the look of the crystals by using different color and textures of pipe cleaners (chenille stems). Just choose your color and choose your shape: stars, snowflakes, trees, gingerbread men. The girls especially love using glittery white and silver ones to make 'snowflakes'. We don't just do..."

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Ingredients: borax, pipe cleaners...

"This recipe will gently exfoliate your hands and/or feet and remove dead skin, leaving you refreshed, soft and silky. You can be pretty experimental with the quantities of each ingredient; it's forgiving and well-adapted to suit each user. Keeps 1-2 weeks in the refrigerator. Great gift in a tightly-capped jar!"

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Ingredients: lemon juice, olive oil, salt...

"When I lived in Alberta, Canada, there was a lady who sold this play-dough at the local farmer's market. It smelled soooo good, that I decided to try making it myself."

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Ingredients: cream of tartar, unsweetened flavored drink mix...

"These bath bombs make fantastic gifts - they are just dropped into a hot bath & they fizz & dissolve releasing a beautiful fragrance! Surprisingly easy to make, let your imagination run WILD & experiment with different oils & colours - I also like to add dried rose petals, dried lavender & fine glitter......the possibilities are..."

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Ingredients: bicarbonate of soda, citric acid...

"This recipe makes the best bubbles!"

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Ingredients: Joy dishwashing soap, light corn syrup...

"There are other recipes for Flubber here, but this is the one I always use. From the Children's Museum of Houston. Great to do with the kids. Educational, too: "Combining the borax and glue with water causes a chemical reaction that forms a new compound with its own unique characteristics. Notice how the flubber can be molded and then returned..."

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Ingredients: food coloring, borax, glue...

"Soothes Dry skin and leaves you smelling great!"

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Ingredients: essential oils, almond oil...

"Richly, masculine scented oil."

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Ingredients: fragrance oil, grapeseed oil...

"These oatmeal/herbs bags are perfect for 8 - 10 bath or showers. Oatmeal is so soothing on the skin. When looking for a dried herb, some possibilities are chamomile, marshmellow root, soapwort, chickweed. The computer would not recognize "part" so I gave it T. This could be made up in a for eg: 1 bag or 10 bags"

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Ingredients: dried herbs, oatmeal...

"Almost all the ingredients we use in our kitchen can be used in one way or the other as ingredients for beauty treatments too. Here is one such easy beauty treatment from the Weekend magazine."

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Ingredients: peaches, brandy...