An Inexpensive Christmas Gift, Perfumed Body Powder for Men or Women with Shimmer Option

In my attempt to give you ideas for inexpensive gifts, I'm showing you how to make your own scented body powder that can have shimmer or not.
You'll need a pint jar, corn starch, a cotton ball or cosmetic puff and cologne. If you want your powder to have shimmer, you'll also need mica powder which is easily obtained by buying LA Colors eye shadow in a plastic pot at the Dollar Tree. They normally have white, pink and gold and any of these colors should work. If you want just shimmer, choose white. If you want the shimmer to have a small amount of color, add the eye shadows.
If you are making it as a gift, you can buy a container and powder puff, but I'm showing you how to make it with a jar for myself. A round plastic or glass container with a good fitting lid will work well for a gift. Here are a couple of links to some nice size powder puffs that I found online. The first has five puffs that are 3" and are white. The second has two pink puffs that are 3.5".
www.amazon.com/Anleolife-Wash...
and there are two pink powder puffs in this, so you could make two gifts.
www.amazon.com/Topwon-Soft-Du...
Here's a link to a container that also includes the puff. You could give the jar of powder and then they could decant it into this container. www.amazon.com/TOPWEL-Make-up...
On your cotton ball, you'll want to spray 25 sprays of cologne. Open a window near where you are doing this as your area will be really cologne scented and it can be overpowering.
I use corn starch but you can also use arrowroot (Red Mill sells bags of this.)
Once you have sprayed your cologne on your cotton ball or cosmetic puff, place it in the bottom of your jar. You will only want to fill your pint jar no more than 2/3rd full with corn starch. I made only one cup of corn starch and it makes a good amount of powder. Once you've put your corn starch in your bottle, put the lid on it and shake it really well. Shake it twice a day for three days and then you can decant it into a pretty bottle. You can leave it in your pint jar. You will punch holes in your lid with a hammer and nail and then
In order to make your powder shimmery or glimmer, add Mica powder. You can buy white, gold or pink eye shadow at Dollar Tree and find a pot of L A Color eye shadows. You need to take the bottom off the pot and you can put as much into your jar as you want. Use a small amount at first and add more until it gets to the glitter level you'd like it. With the mica powder (eye shadow), your powder with be visible, without the mica powder, it shouldn't be visible. Rich really likes this with his cologne as it helps with keeping your skin cool and fresh.
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[@DrGoldieMD]

This is super helpful! I’m going to try this with my favorite scent ❤

[@craftingforalmosteveryone]

Hope you like it.

[@rhondasnair9304]

omg super cute such a good idea

[@craftingforalmosteveryone]

Great gift for Christmas...hope you try it. YT is sending me comments I've never seen before..kind of odd, but I still want to reply...

[@Elizabeth45840]

Another great gift!! I use the same eye shadow with Gum Arabic to make watercolors. I got that from The Frugal Crafter.

[@craftingforalmosteveryone]

That eye shadow has so many uses..I wonder who the geniuses are that come up with these uses. I'd love to be that smart.

[@dorispettengill6422]

Sandy, you had me laughing and coughing at the same time !!! You are so funny...in a good way!!! I really love you attitude Sandy !!! I have a problem with smells, otherwise, I would make some of these up for family guy gifts !! I have Sinus Infection and Bronchitis from someone burning wood in their fireplace!!! So my Christmas this year is going to be stuck behind a facial mask,it takes a long time for me to recover !! Hey that should look great for family photos !!! HAHAHA Well you keep making video`s and I`ll keep watching them !! Take care my friend !!! :)

[@craftingforalmosteveryone]

Doris, So sorry to hear about your sinus infection/bronchitis. Geez, you'll be so pretty in those family photos with your mask. Too bad you can't bling it up! I'm glad I make you laugh! Sandy

[@craftingforalmosteveryone]

If this one made you laugh, the new video I just put up should have you coughing up a lung. It didn't go well, is all I'm saying.Sandy

[@Krishna-yw7qc]

Please share any another perfume

[@craftingforalmosteveryone]

Sorry for my late response, your request is so timely. Last summer I tripped on a stick and broke my femur so couldn't walk for 7 months and in that time, got addicted to perfumes from the Middle East. We just went on a trip to celebrate me walking again and in the video I visit a perfume store of Middle Eastern scents and mention that I'd like to do a video on the perfumes I've bought and how they differ from mass marketed perfumes here in the US. A lot of them can still be bought on Amazon and I don't believe in spending hundreds of dollars for perfumes because I have a pretty large collection and will never use them in this lifetime (I'm almost 65) but love the idea of sharing more information about them and maybe sending people samples of them sprayed on a stick if they live within the US so they have a better idea of what they smell like.... Would that be a video you'd be interested in? As for these powders, if you buy a sample set of perfume, the little bottles with a stopper on them, you could make a good amount of scented powder with one of those bottles, just as an fyi, and make it from whatever scent you love most. Let me know what you think about the video idea. Sandy