Homemade Bath Salts/Make Your Own Homemade Bath Salts
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Homemade Bath Salts--Easy to Make, and Inexpensive Too!
Ahhhhhhh, what could be nicer after a long hard day than soaking your tired bones in your own homemade bath salt? You can have it scented exactly how you like, whether with lavender, vanilla or cedarwood--the choice is yours!
What is even better about making your own homemade bath salt is the price! If you are sick and tired of paying $15.99 a bottle for bath salt at bath and body stores, what if I told you that you could make your own custom-blended bath salt for less than $3.00?
Oooh, I'll bet that you are a little ticked off now, aren't you?
I know that I was DEFINITELY ticked off when I found out that bath salt is commonly marked up 600%! Ladies (and gentlemen, too) we have been getting ripped off by these big multi-national beauty conglomerates, and it's time to take the health of our skin back from these greedy vultures!
Maybe you have an irritating skin condition such as acne, psoriasis or ezcema--did you know that soaking in bath salt made from Dead Sea salt has been shown to improve these conditions with use? It's almost as good as a trip to the Dead Sea itself, without the high cost of a plane ticket and accomodation!
Not only is homemade bath salt very inexpensive to make, nothing could be much easier either. So read along for your how-to lesson.
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Dendritic Salt Helps Retain Fragrance and Increases Shelf Life of Homemade Bath Salt
So for the math challenged (um, that would include me also) you need 3 cups Epsom salt, 2 cups sea salt and 1 cup baking soda plus about 1/2 ounce of essential or fragrance oil.
Wow, really complicated, right? NOT! Remember, I did tell ya that this was super easy!
Ok, now for our shhhhhhhhh, super secret ingredient--Dendritic Salt. If you add 5% dendritic salt to your blend, you will prevent your essential oils from becoming oxidized from the magnesium in the salt. You definitely want to avoid having your essential oils oxidize, because this means they become rancid and stinky.
Dendritic salt is just regular old salt that has been exposed to a chemical to make it grow star-shaped crystals. All the better for hanging on to fragrance molecules, you know.
Dendritic salt also prevents your bath salt from clumping and caking together.
Ok, in this recipe, we have a total of 5 cups of Epsom and sea salt, so we would need to use about 1/4 cup of dendritic salt in this recipe. (Hmm, maybe this math stuff isn't as bad as I thought.)
Dendritic salt isn't terribly expensive, especially considering how little of it you really need to create homemade bath salts. You can buy 10lbs of the stuff for $15.00 at From Nature With Love.
Homemade Bath Salts
So Fun and Easy to Make!
Scented Homemade Bath Salts Suit Different Moods
How Adding Essential Oils to Your Homemade Bath Salts Can Help Lift You Up, or Calm You Down
You can make your homemade bath salts even more therapeutic by the type of essential oil you choose, as each have their own healing properties.Here are a few examples of the different properties of essential oils:
Clary Sage Helps ease depression
Cedarwood Calms and balances energy
Grapefruit Lightens one's mood, and gives energy
Lavender Calms and relaxes
Peppermint Stimulates the mind and improves focus
Rose Fights fears and anger
Sandalwood Reduces tension and confusion
If someone you love is going through a tough time, why not make them a lovely gift of homemade bath salt with an essential oil appropriate to their current condition? Nothing would be more thoughful.
If essential oils are not readily available in your area, you can order them online.
Kalyx.com Complete Aromatherapy Oils & Supplies
*Caution* Some essential oils are not to be used in the bath as they can be very irritating to delicate skin (I'm sure you can figure out what I'm saying--right?) Don't use black pepper, clove, cinnamon or oregano oils in bath salts. If you are not sure, be sure to consult a guide for the appropriate use of essential oils.
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FarmerSue
Nov 30, 2009 @ 12:16 am | delete
- This looks super easy! This will make a nice little Christmas gift, too! Thanks.
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