Homemade Bacon Bath Salts

By Miss Cellania in Art on Dec 15, 2008 at 9:10 am

Bath salts are a popular Christmas gift for the person who has everything. Now you can make them yourself with the classic scent of bacon!

Step 1
Heat up 4 strips of salt pork in a microwave. You could also use bacon, but the salt pork has more fat, giving you more grease for your mixture.

Step 2
Pour 2 cups epsom salt in bowl, then 1 cup borax.

Step 3
Drain fat away from meat and mix with a few drops of liquid smoke. The liquid smoke helps make the scent, it won’t smell right without it.

Step 4
Mix the grease/smoke mixture into the salt mixture. Mix thoroughly by hand, or else it will not blend all the way. If there seems to be too much grease, add more borax and salt. If it is too dry, heat up more salt pork and repeat steps 1-4.

Step 5
Enjoy bacon scented baths by adding your salt whenever you take a soak. To store, just put it in a bottle and save it for later.

Link -via Unique Daily

Update: I just found out you can buy this already made!


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  1. Gail Pink
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    As much as I am a total bacon enthusiast, I don’t know about this one.

  2. Evilbeagle
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I love bacon. I could eat bacon every day if it didn’t mean that my backside would grow sideways. However, this obsession with infusing bacon into everything from clothing to bath salts is tiring.

  3. sw
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    you want me to bathe in bacon grease?!

  4. Gauldar
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    If you have a cat, it will want to drink your bathwater.

  5. Johnny Cat
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    What in the world is liquid smoke?

  6. Gail Pink
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Johnny Cat-
    Liquid Smoke is literally that: a smoke flavored liquid usually used in meat preparation.

  7. Jill Harness
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    How funny, this is my recipe. I’m glad you found it Miss Celina!

  8. liphttam1
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    I want to smell like bacon!!

  9. Ali S.
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    @ Gail Pink

    I was about suggest that Liquid Smoke was going to be something more drug related thus baffling Johnny Cat even further…but I like your explanation better! ;)

  10. Christophe
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Try to visit a kennel after that!

    And : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_smoke
    I didn’t know about it neither.

  11. metalchick666
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    Great post! Hey Jill, I’m going to link your bath salts also. Bacon rules.

  12. Jill Harness
    Dec 15th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    Thanks Metalchick! And thanks Miss Celina for the update!

  13. Dr Gnome
    Dec 9th, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    I was very excited to find this, but when I tried it, my bathwater was so greasy! Forget about reading a book. And then I had to scrub the tub with dish soap. It seems to be a fairly dry mixture — am I missing something?


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