Gifts in a jar are perfect for giving homemade Christmas gifts. This Peppermint Pampering Jar is filled with items like body butter, foot, and sugar scrub.
Giving homemade Christmas gifts is so affordable! This Christmas, I am giving gifts in a jar with a Peppermint Pampering theme. It is filled with homemade peppermint spa products and peppermint treats. If you want to make your own spa products, the recipes are below. If not, you can buy small-sized bottles of similar spa products to put in the jars. Or buy large bottles and divide them into small containers.
In This Post: Everything You Need To Make Peppermint Pampering Gifts In A Jar
I started with lots of these small containers from Family Dollar and spray-painted the lids red. Be sure to use spray paint that is specially formulated for plastics. I used Krylon Fusion For Plastic in Pepper Red Gloss to paint these lids. Don’t worry if you can’t find these exact containers. Try looking for small plastic containers in the bead aisle at a craft store or in the food storage aisle of a large retailer like Walmart or Target.
To make the peppermint body butter, I used one Net Wt 7.5 oz jar of Vaseline Cocoa Butter petroleum jelly, three 8 fl. oz bottles of Bath and Body Works Twisted Peppermint body lotion (bought them on sale) and two Net Wt. 4 oz jars of Studio 35 Vitamin E cream.
Put all of the ingredients into the mixer bowl and add drops of red food coloring, 5 teaspoons peppermint extract and 2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Whip everything together.
Fill up as many small containers as you need and put the rest into large containers. This recipe makes 48 oz of lotion. If you don’t need that much, cut the recipe in half.
Peppermint Body Butter
To make the peppermint sugar scrub, put 1/2 cup of fractionated coconut oil in a large bowl.
Add 1 1/2 cups of granulated sugar, 2-3 teaspoons peppermint extract, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 drops of red food coloring (if desired).
Mix everything until the color is evenly distributed.
Fill containers with the sugar scrub.
Peppermint Sugar Scrub
Next, I made some peppermint foot soak by mixing together 1 cup baking soda, 1/2 cup Epsom salt, 2 teaspoons peppermint extract and 2 drops of red food coloring. Use a whisk to mix well. The extract made the mix a little wet so I poured it onto a piece of parchment paper and let it dry for 1/2 an hour.
Put 2 tablespoons of peppermint foot soak into each container. When ready to use the foot soak, pour the entire contents of the small foot soak container into a basin of warm water.
Peppermint Foot Soak
Print, cut out and glue the labels onto the containers. You can print the FREE labels below.
Put a piece of candy cane washi tape across the top of the containers.
Here is everything I put into my peppermint pampering mason jar: Ghiradelli Mint Chocolate, a peppermint hot cocoa packet, a red manicure set, candy cane Chapstick, and peppermint candy. I used a Kerr one quart (32 oz) wide-mouth mason jar.
Carefully add everything to the jar so that it all fits.
Put a piece of candy cane-striped Washi tape around the lid and add a snowflake to the top. I bought a pack of these snowflakes in the dollar section at Target.
I am making a ton of these gifts in a jar to give away this Christmas! I’ve got a head start and now I just need to be sure to finish them!
Want more gifts in a jar? Try these next:
A Pedicure In A Jar includes all of the things you need to give yourself a pedicure at home.
The Spa In A Jar mason jar gift includes everything you need for an at-home spa day.
Looking for other Mason Jar Gifts? We have a full tutorial on how to put everything in a jar.
Peppermint Pampering Printable Labels
To make the peppermint pampering labels, open the files you want and download the pdf to your computer. Each pdf is a full sheet of one kind of labels. Print the labels onto paper using your printer and cut out each label. Glue the labels to the containers. Or you can print the labels onto full sheet label sticker paper and cut each label out. Then, peel off the backing and attach the labels to the containers.
Body Butter Printable Labels
Sugar Scrub Printable Labels
Foot Soak Printable Labels
Peppermint Pampering
Ingredients
Peppermint Body Butter
- 7.5 oz (Net Wt) jar of Vaseline Cocoa Butter petroleum jelly
- (3) 3.8 fl. oz. bottles of Twisted Peppermint body lotion
- (2) 4 oz (Net Wt) jars of Studio 35 Vitamin E cream
- 2 drops red food coloring
- 5 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Peppermint Sugar Scrub
- ½ cup fractionated coconut oil
- 1½ cups of granulated sugar
- teaspoons peppermint extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 drops red food coloring if desired
Peppermint Foot Soak
- 1 cup baking soda
- ½ cup Epsom salt
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 2 drops red food coloring
Instructions
Peppermint Body Butter
- Put all of the ingredients into a mixer and whip them together.
- Fill containers with the body butter. This recipe makes 48 oz of lotion.
- Attach a label to the front.
- Add a strip of washi tape across the top.
Peppermint Sugar Scrub
- Put the fractionated coconut oil into a large bowl.
- Mix in sugar, peppermint extract, vanilla extract and red food coloring.
- Fill containers with the sugar scrub. Recipe makes 16 oz of sugar scrub.
- Attach a label to the front.
- Add a strip of washi tape across the top.
- Be careful when using because products containing oil can make the shower/tub slippery!
Peppermint Foot Soak
- Mix together baking soda, Epsom salt, peppermint extract and red food coloring with a whisk.
- Allow the mixture to dry out before adding to the containers. I poured it onto a piece of parchment paper and let it dry for ½ an hour.
- Put 2 tablespoons of peppermint foot soak into each container. Recipe makes enough that you can put 2 tablespoons into 10 containers.
- Add a strip of washi tape across the top.
- When ready to the foot soak, pour the entire contents of the small foot soak container into a basin of warm water.
Christianne says
I would like to clarify. In the foot soak did you use peppermint essential oil or peppermint cooking extract?
Tonia says
I used peppermint cooking extract because that is what I had on hand. You can you peppermint oil but only use 1/2 teaspoon since it is 4 times as strong.