Recipe cards help you make the most of all the aromatherapy ingredients. View larger.

The included spoon is perfect for measuring and mixing. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: A variety of fun bath and beauty products to make The Bad: Fountain can get messy In a Nutshell: A great way to encourage creativity At a Glance Ages: 8 and older Requires: 2 AA batteries

Kids can follow the recipes on colorful cardboard cards to make fun concoctions, including herbal bouquet perfume, berry chocolate chip bath fizzies, or carnival candy lip gloss. There's hints for mixing up a calming clay facial mask, and if the included recipes aren't adventurous enough for your children, they can invent their own.

Each kit comes with two fragrance oil packets and two flavor oil packets, so little girls may be mixing popular scents like lavender and jasmine with the fresh aroma of pink grapefruit. An adult may want to help out, especially at first, so the strongly scented oils don't overpower creations or end up in sensitive eyes.

Bond with Friends and Develop Unique Gifts
Included along with all the supplies for making unique bath and beauty products are containers to store them in. A pair of perfume gift bottles, and tubs for lip gloss or bath fizzies make this set perfect for sharing with friends and neighbors or packaging up your favorite scented creation to give as a gift. You'll be inspired by the way this set encourages cooperative play rather than competition.

While there are ingredients for plenty of different creations, there isn't necessarily enough of some of the ingredients, like the lip gloss base, to make starting over easy when too much scent has been added. Girls should use the included pipette and add oils a single drop at a time to avoid shortages, and it's important for them to think through what they really want to make before they start creating.

Adding new elements is likely to make mixing in the fountain even more fun, and girls will become increasingly adventurous as they make one cool mixture after another, so the specific scents that come with each set don't need to become a limiting factor. The fountain's pieces are all made of durable plastic, so it should enjoy a lengthy life as long as budding beauty product designers take some care with it and don't loose any of its parts.

What's in the Box
Fountain, 4 essential oil bottles, 2 fragrance oil packets, 2 flavor oil packets, perfume base, lip gloss base, fizz activator packet, citrus blend packet, oat blend packet, 4 recipe cards, 2 perfume bottles, 2 lip gloss jars, 2 bath body jars, spoon whisk, pipette, mini funnel, and sticker labels.