a few drops of perfume or oil (remember the oil goes along way)

1 Tablespoon of Glycerin

food coloring (you can use the liquid or the frostingtype) and put in the amount you want to achieve thecolor you want

Place the Epsom Salts in a glass or metal container.  Combine the food coloring and glycerin and mix.  Then add to the epsom salts and mix.

To save -  we put the bath salts into a zip lock bag. It was stapled inside a card which the girls made for their mom. We used assorted pastel colors of card stock (full sheet size) folded it in half and had a real cute picture of a ducky in an old fashioned footed bath tub with a bath brush scrubbing its back.

The poem said,

Mother's Day is here at last.
This special day will go so fast.
We'll laugh and talk and eat and joke -
When the day is through have a quiet soak!
Love you MOM!!

There are other recipes for the bath salts that used coconut oil. But this one like I said was basic. We tinted ours pink and added a rose oil to the salts.  The girls colored the picture of the ducky and glued it on. I had the poem printed and they glued that to the top inside with the salts stapled on the bottom inside half - we hole punched the bottom and ran a pretty 1/4 inch wide ribbon through to hold the two sides closed and tied it in a bow.