How to Make Bath Salts
Do you want to learn how to make bath salts? Bath salts are the best products to enjoy a long retreat in a bath tub. Lying in a warm, scented bath tub not only gets you clean, but it also provides a refuge from the stresses of the life making it a luxury affordable by everyone. Bath salts can help you in relieving stress, pain and aches, relaxing your sore muscles, detoxifying your skin giving it a healthy glow. The main advantage of bath salt is that it helps in detoxification, the reason being bath salts are created from an alkaline base that neutralizes the acids of your skin and hence, easily detoxifies your skin with the dirt and pollution. Also as alkaline neutralizes with the acid on the skin fragrances cling to the body. The scents are soothing and salts are healing and relaxing.
Bath salts can be easily prepared and the simple ingredients required for making them are:
Baking Soda: Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate is a mild alkaline salt and it offers softening and soothing qualities. It also absorbs the fragrances.
Citric Acid: Citric acid is used to create the fizzing effect when the bath salts are dissolved in the water. Citric acid forms a great toner for the skin, hence, helps in removing dirt from the pores of the skin.
Coarse Salt: Coarse salts help in neutralizing your skin so that the fragrant oils cling and make your skin smell beautiful for hours.
Epsom salts: Just like baking soda, Epsom salts is mild alkaline salts that disperse easily in water. They are excellent in soothing skin inflammations and muscle aches.
The recipe to create bath salts is as follows:
Ingredients:
1 cup Epsom salts
¼ cup Baking soda
1 cup coarse salt
15 to 20 drops fragrance oil
10 drops food coloring
Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl. Once they are mixed well pour the mixture in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid. Shake the mixture every day for a week before you start the use.
Method of Using Bath Salts:
Draw a warm bath and add ½ cup of bath salts to the running water. Once the tub is filled hop in and relax, inhale the aroma of your salts deeply in order to experience the soothing qualities of aromatherapy.
Essential oils are great resource to rejuvenate you. It is also fun to mix different oils and create your own fragrances to use in the bath salts.
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