Not too many people take a regular bath during summer but it doesn't mean that you should avoid sales and income (if you're an artisan manufacturer of bath & body products) or do not make any bath products as a present, or even for your own pleasure.
Nothing can refresh your mind and body during hot summer days and exhausting days (such as long exhibition and conference days, or after a long run, a long bicycle tour or wandering) like a short refreshing foot bath.
Let me explain you more about this before I start with the recipe.
I learned this trick from our department secretary during my student days. Our Physical chemistry department was located on the uppermost floor of a concrete building. It was like a sauna during summer days (which fortunately are very rare in Germany). As you may know we are very conscious about climate change and energy consumption in Germany and obviously we didn't have any air conditioner in the building. As it was about 28 Celsius outside, it was impossible to think and almost impossible to breath inside.
Ute, our department's secretary who was basically bound to her desk and didn't have to run around the department every second refreshed her mind and feet with a small tub filled with tap water under her desk. She put her feet every couple of hours for a few minutes in the tub and she was like new born after each session.
At those days, I couldn't enjoy the luxury of the foot bath, as an student I was running all the time between different instruments and experiments but I kept this trick in mind. Later as I was finished with the university and had my own office and lab, I used the trick during intolerable hot days or after long exhausting days (specially those days when you're running or staying the whole day on high heels). Less than five minutes in a foot bath is enough to relax and revitalize the feet and the mind.
Of course I didn't apply pure tap water. Always a refreshing bath salt or bath fizzy and I recommended this trick to as many people as I could and every single person was thankful for this recommendation.
This is why I want to share with you this recipe. For your own pleasure, as a gift or to boost and support your sales during boring summer months.
You can basically prepare foot fizzies like a basic bath fizzy recipe. I recommend refreshing and uplifting essential oils like grapefruit, tangerine, Blood orange, lime, or a cooling and uplifting essential oil like peppermint.
I add small amounts of a plant oil and a lipophilic plant extract to add skin care and emolliency to the bath.
Basically you can prepare the foot fizzies in any possibel form, to distinguish them from the conventional foot fizzies and to make them attractive for summer I applied the Milkyway flipflops mold. Another way is to spread your base over the counter and then cut forms with a cookie cutter.
The manufacturing process is like the conventional bath fizzies:
Mix Sodium bicarbonate and citric acid in a bowl. Try to break any existing clumps or sieve the mixture. Premix your colorant in lysolecithin or in the oil (or apply a macerated oil, like annatto seeds). Add colorant, plant oil, plant extract and essential oil to the mixture and mix well until you reach the consistency of wet sand and you can form a ball in your hands without breaking.
Press the mixture into the mold (if you're using a mold) or spread a layer (1-2 cm thick) over a flat and smooth surface. Cut shapes with your cookie cutter. Let the shapes dry (in case of the mold, let them rest in the mold for at least 5-6 hrs) before wrapping them.
I wish you much joy and success by preparing this recipe. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions or to leave your comments.
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