Whether freshly scented or simply luxurious, these bath and spa ideas make lovely gifts for anyone.

Make fragrant homemade soaps using honey, ginger, cinnamon, and other items from your larder.

Use cardboard milk or juice cartons to make these lovely soaps.

Make dozens of effervescent treats in a variety of shapes and colors that will scent and soften bath water as they bubble.

Fill heat-sealable tea bags with calming scents, including lavender buds, peppermint leaves, and chamomile buds.

You need only four ingredients to make these moisturizing exfoliants. The base can be made from either Epsom salts or sugar, depending on whether you want a large or fine grain.

Spa-inspired presents, including these handmade lip balms, can be created from basic kitchen ingredients and craft materials. 

Stamped soaps, inspired by candy conversation hearts, are great gifts for friends.

Adults and children alike will adore these snuggly, personalized pairs.

Soaps bearing a beautiful Japanese floral motif are almost too pretty to use.

Coaxed from leaves, roots, tree bark, fruit peels, or flower petals, essential oils make lovely homemade gifts that carry a plant's very life force.

These fragrant spheres for the bath are made by packing Epsom salts into a plastic mold; they can be tinted any color. You'll need 3 to 4 days to make the bath balls because of the drying time between steps. Makes 2 large or 4 small balls.

Add nature's essence to a homemade soap gift.

Add your choice of aromatic blends to these whimsical gift envelopes.

Turn a plain old soak into a real retreat with bath salts you make and package yourself.

A homemade batch of balm makes for a sweet stocking stuffer.

Ice-cube trays serve as molds, giving the fizzies their shape. Using a flexible silicone model lets you slide the cubes out smoothly without breaking them.

Muslin bags stamped with an evergreen motif and filled with fragrant dried balsam make seasonally appropriate sachets. The tiny tags were made using a craft punch.

Delight someone with a fresh-scented and boldly striped soap. Purchase clear and white glycerin soap at a crafts store. Use a mini loaf pan as a mold; each "loaf" of soap requires 2 cups of each soap and yields six bars of soap.

Go ahead, wash your hands with these pastel ice cubes -- they're actually soaps made using an ice-cube tray as a mold.