Coco-Lime Bath Cookies

In celebration of Cinco de Mayo The Natural Beauty Workshop has put together a special bath tub recipe. Inspired by the traditional baked good, Mexican Wedding Cookies, the following recipe will add a delightful, fizzy twist to your next bath.  This all natural recipe is full of skin loving ingredients.  Rice Bran Powder is known to help soother and balance skin.  Mango Butter and Organic Virgin Coconut Cream Oil add moisturizing properties to the bath, while Coconut Milk softens and conditions the skin.   

Coco-Lime Bath Cookies

Ingredients
3/4 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Rice Bran Powder (coarse or fine)
1 cup Cornstarch
1/2 cup Coconut Milk Powder (for mixture)
1/2 cup Coconut Milk Powder (for topping)
1 tbs. Cocoa Powder
2 oz. Organic Virgin Coconut Cream Oil
2 oz. Mango Butter
5 tsp. Lime Essential Oil
1 cup Baking Soda
1/2 cup Citric Acid

Directions
Warm the Mango Butter and Organic Virgin Coconut Cream Oil in a double boiler or a hot water bath until completely melted.  Remove the Mango Butter and Coconut Oil from the heat, allowing it to cool slightly, but not to harden.  Next, line a small baking sheet with waxed paper and set it to the side.  In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the Brown Sugar, Rice Bran Powder, Coconut Milk Powder, Cornstarch, and Cocoa Powder.  Stir the ingredients well, making sure to break up any clumps in the powders or sugars.  Since these ingredients can be a little clumpy by nature, you may want to grind the mixture in a blender or food processor to achieve a totally even consistency.  However, a few small clumps will not damage the cookies, so if that is totally optional.  In a second mixing bowl, combine the Baking Soda and Citric Acid.  Again, make sure to work out any clumps in the mixture.  Next, combine the two bowls of dry ingredients and mix well.  Add the Lime Essential Oil to the melted Coconut Oil and Mango Butter than pour the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients.  Begin stirring and kneading the mixture immediately.  You must work quickly at this point to get the cookies formed and placed onto the baking sheet.  Using your hands, form tablespoon sized balls of the mixture.  Roll the balls in the Coconut Milk Powder, covering them completely.  Place the balls onto the baking sheet then press them down gently, flattening the top.  They should be similar in shape to a gingersnap or sugar cookie.  Continue shaping cookies with the remaining mixture.  Allow the cookies to harden for a full 24 hours before attempting to remove them from the baking sheet.  After 24 hours the cookies should be hard enough to be handled and packaged.
 

Usage & Packaging

Coco-Lime Bath Cookies should be stored in a tightly sealed bag or container.  Moisture or humidity can cause the cookies to fizz or "flower" prematurely.  These cookies look adorable in our Cello Bags or 1/2 lb. Tin Tie Bags.  To use the Cookies, simply drop one or two into a warm bath.  They will fizz and bubble, filling the bath with the delightful aroma of Lime and Coconut. 

Comments

[Michelle]

Emmy, how do you come up with these recipes? you're a creative genius!

[Emmy]

Thanks Michelle! You are too sweet. I think I come up with these things so readily because I am simply overly preoccupied with food! LOL. I horde cookbooks and baking books and constantly pour over them "oo-ing" and "ah-ing" over all of the tasty things inside. I guess it's only natural that I would want to bath in a tub full of cookies.

[Coniqua]

I've read that some tub cookies can be wet and used in the shower as an exfoliant, can this be done with the cookies featured on this site?

[Emmy Gabriel]

Hi Coniqua. Ive never heard of using bath cookies this way, but it sounds like an interesting idea! I think it would definitely be worth trying with our bath cookies recipes, but having never used them in this way, I couldnt say for certain whether theyd work well. Using a cookie with more exfoliating ingredients, such as our Coco Lime Bath Cookies would probably be a good idea. You would also want to avoid cookies with too much pigment. For example, our Whoopie Pie Bath Cookies would probably be a bit messy if used as a scrub.

[Cathy]

A general question :) Could you provide an approximate measure in oz or grams for 1 cup of citric acid, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, milk powder?

[Emmy Gabriel]

Hi Cathy.  Id be happy to give you some approximate measurements.  Keep in mind these are rounded off, so they may not work out to extremely exact when multiplied over and over.  Baking Soda weighs around 9.5 ounces per cup.  Citric Acid weighs around 8.25 ounces per cup.  Cornstarch and Whole Milk Powder both weigh around 5.25 ounces per cup.  

[Tee]

Someone asked if you could scrub with these cookies...could you use this recipe and do a spin off of the sugar scrub bars with a soap base? I love the ideas of mixing these wonderful ingredients and essentially making different products with them all. Again, just learning about adding soap into my recipes and could be way off with additions to soap bases and how this will affect the end product. thank you

[Emmy Gabriel]

You could certainly use this recipe and the Candy Shop Solid Sugar Scrub recipe as inspiration for a hybrid of your own.  Im not sure exactly how you would combine the two, but Id love to hear what you come up with!  I suppose, I would start with the proportions from the Sugar Scrub Recipe, then replace the ingredients.  Brown Sugar instead of white sugar, Organic Virgin Coconut Oil instead of Rosehip and FCO, Lime Essential Oil instead of Fragrance Oil, and leave out the Micas.  Then, you could use round cookie cutters to cut the scrubs out instead of cutting them into squares.  In theory, that should work quite nicely!  Let us know if you give it a try, Tee. Wed love to see them!