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 will be giving out 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 it into small containers.
I started with lots of these small containers from the 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 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 Recipe
- (1) 7.5 oz (Net Wt) jar of Vaseline Cocoa Butter petroleum jelly
- (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
- 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.
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
- ½ cup of fractionated coconut oil
- 1½ cups of granulated sugar
- 2-3 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 drops of red food coloring (if desired)
- 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!
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 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 the foot soak, pour the entire contents of the small foot soak container into a basin of warm water.
Peppermint Foot Soak
- 1 cup baking soda
- ½ cup Epsom salt
- 2 teaspoons peppermint extract
- 2 drops red food coloring
- 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.
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, 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 stripped 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!
Jeanne says
Looking for a bunch of red nail brushes. Any idea in bulk?
Tonia says
Hi Jeanna,
Are you looking for the red scrub brushes for nails? It looks like Amazon has them in bulk here: https://amzn.to/2sykIPS
Best,
Tonia
Gail says
Wow, what a wonderful Idea!! I had to make 14 gifts for the girls at work. Not only was this fun to put together, your instructions were wonderful, right down to the labels!!! Thank you!
Tonia says
You are very welcome! I’m so happy to hear that you made 14 of them!
Christy says
This looks like a great Christmas gift to all the girls and women in my family. On the body butter can you substitute the petroleum jelly, peppermint body lotion and vitamin E cream with just regular cocoa butter body lotion?
Tonia says
Hi Cristy,
I’m not sure what you are asking…which ingredient did you want to substitute?
~Tonia
Christy says
The body butter has coconut oil, I have a couple girls that are allergic to coconut. And on the small containers what size are they to be able to fit 3 in the 32 oz. mason jar?
Tonia says
You can use any body lotion you want in place of the twisted peppermint body lotion I used. Yes, I was able to fit 3 of the 2.4 oz containers in my 32 oz mason jar along with the other items. Best of luck! ~Tonia
Stacey says
If I only want to make 10 of these how much ingredients would I need?
Chloe says
Can I just say that this is the most brilliant and easy DIY mason jar gift. Thank you so much for the idea! So cute! Followed your recipes exactly except halved the body butter recipe and it all came out perfect. Thank you for sharing!
Katie says
Hi! Would it be possible to make the body butter with Bath and Body Works body cream instead? I would LOVE to make this, however they aren’t coming out with the Twisted Peppermint scent in the regular lotion this year, just the body cream.
Tonia says
Hi Katie,
Yes, you can use the body cream. Or you can use another brand peppermint lotion but the Twisted Peppermint is my FAVE cause it smells just like candy canes!
~Tonia
Katie says
I just made it last night using the B&BW body cream – I wasn’t sure if it would be too thick – but it still turned out amazing! 🙂 I’ve made a similar recipe in the past and followed it exactly, so I never thought to sub B&BW scents for the lotion!! Thanks for the great idea!
Tonia says
Fabulous! Can’t wait to make this year’s batch!
Jessica says
Instead of studio 35 can I use… Genes Vitamin E Creme Swiss Collagen Complex Moisturizing Creme for Dry and Sensitive …. I know in the previous comments you said any vitamin E cream but I would rather ask to double check since I didn’t see it on the list of others that you said would work.
Jordan says
Hi, what can I use to substitute the vitamin E cream. I have searched high and low for that stuff and it is no where to be found. I tried Walgreens as you stated you purchased yours there, they have, cannot be sold online and not available at any stores within a 100 miles radius of me. Is there anything I can use instead of that? I have even looked on Amazon and they carry nothing like it. Only lotions with Vitamin E in it. HELP!!!!
Tonia says
Hello Jordan,
You can use any brand of Vitamin E Cream that you can find in your area. If you can’t find it, substitute with another creamy lotion with that is unscented or lightly scented, depending on how much money you want to spend.
Here are a few of the many brands I found on Amazon: (affiliate links)
Now Foods Vitamin E Cream: http://amzn.to/2fXvEtW
Fruit of the Earth Vitamin E Cream: http://amzn.to/2gT8dqd (I believe this one is also sold at Walmart and Family Dollar)
Vital Care Vitamin E Cream: http://amzn.to/2h68835
Best of luck!
Tonia
Belle says
Tonia is the scrub for lips or just body ? and does the red stain ?