Aromatherapy bath salts are one of the quickest, easiest goodies to make for the bath – and one of the most healing. With just a few simple ingredients you can make your own aromatherapy bath salts to ease your aching back, calm your frazzled nerves or relax yourself for a deep, restful sleep.

We all need down time, and we all need to have fun. Life is so busy these days that it can be hard to carve out the time. Making your own aromatherapy bath salts is a great way to give yourself a break.

First, you give yourself some ‘fun’ time by making your scented bath salts – mixing, stirring, smelling… and, most especially, experimenting. Don’t be afraid to blend together a few of your favorite essential oils to create your own custom scent. Play! The creative process is half the fun.

Second, you actually have to lie in the bath for a while (here’s your down-time) to use your aromatherapy bath salts. Give yourself candles, a glass of wine or tea, soothing music – all those good, stress-draining, nerve-calming accessories. Lock the door and slide into warm, scented bliss – your own hand made, master crafted aromatherapy bath salts, created just for you!

Aromatherapy Bath Salts Quick Trick

If you honestly don’t have time to make bath salts but you still want some aromatic down-time in the tub, try this instant ‘cheat’. Add 1 to 2 cups of Epsom Salt to your hot running bathwater. Pour a tablespoon of vegetable oil (any type will do) into a small glass. Add 10 drops of your favorite essential oil. Adjust the water temperature and slide into the tub. Pour in the essential oil mixture and swish it around a bit. Lie back and relax.

10 Minute Aromatherapy Bath Salt Recipe

3 cups Epsom Salt
1/2 cup Baking Soda
15 drops of your favorite Essential Oil (or one of the blends below)
Optional: 10 drops of your choice of food coloring

Measure salt and baking soda into a large glass, ceramic or stainless steel bowl (not plastic – it will absorb the essential oils.)

[Three minutes]

Stir together the salt and baking soda using a metal spoon (a wooden spoon will absorb the essential oils.)

[One minute]

Drop in the essential oils and food coloring, placing each drop in its own little spot on top of the salt.

[Two minutes]

Stir until thoroughly mixed.

[One minute, maybe two]

Pour your bath salt mixture in a dark glass or PET plastic jar.

[One minute]

That’s it! Nine minutes (plus one extra for spills or finding your glasses.) Quick, easy, painless!

It’s best to let your aromatherapy bath salts cure at least 24 hours before using them so the salt can really absorb the aroma.

Use about one cup of salts per bath. This aromatherapy bath salt recipe makes enough for three baths.

Essential Oil Bath Salt Blends

Cheer Up! Essential Oil Bath Salt Blend
7 drops Bergamot essential oil 7 drops Sweet Orange essential oil 1 drop Rose Geranium essential oil

Super Sedative Essential Oil Bath Salt Blend
8 drops Sandalwood essential oil 4 drops Lavender essential oil 3 drops Cedar essential oil

Pain Relief Essential Oil Bath Salt Blend
10 drops Lavender essential oil 3 drops Chamomile essential oil 2 drops Marjoram essential oil

Making your own aromatherapy bath salts is so easy and quick that almost anyone can do it. It’s a great activity to do with your children or grandchildren (just make sure an adult handles the essential oils.) Family time and play time all in one!

Plus, aromatherapy bath salts make great gifts – why not make up a big batch and share the love. We all have friends and relatives who could use a friendly jar of aromatherapy bath salts. Just remember to save some for yourself!

Disclaimer: This information is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to treat, prevent, diagnose, or cure any condition.

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Bath Salts are used by many for different reasons. It helps to improve the bathing and cleaning experience. It helps ease body pains and aches, assist with healing of medical ailments, maintain a healthier skin and it aids with relieving of tension and stress which provides you with a restful feeling.

These salts has the properties of natural minerals and nutrients. Fragrances, herbs, essential oils and colors are added to give each one their particular quality. The purpose of the salt acts as a vehicle or diluent to extend these fragrances.

Essential oils which form bath oil beads, have a warm healing and therapeutic qualities, it soothes cuts and burns and is a wonderful stress reliever. When these oils are added to the salt it helps to seal the warmth of the water. Baking soda is also added to create a fizzing or effervescent effect. The fragrance lavender is used by many because of its calming effects which helps with relaxation, reduces anxiety, relieve of pain and tension headaches and aids in the treatment of cough and respiratory ailments.

Epsom salt is the #1 salt used by many in bath salt recipes, salt scrubs, foot soaks, bath soaps and in aromatherapy treatment. It increases the quality of the salts and spa treatment recipes.

These salts has an effect on muscles and the nervous system, it ease muscle pain, relieves stress providing a feeling of well being and relaxation. It provides an anti-inflammatory effect and it improve the heart by providing good circulatory health, reducing blood clots and lowering blood pressure. It reduces wrinkling of the skin, acts as a water softener, provides a detergent action which softens and clean skin and has a scouring or rough feeling which aids in removal of dead skin cells.

There are many benefits of using bath salts, some states that it stimulates body circulation, it helps with the healing of cuts and burns and other skin ailments. It sloughs off dead skin and dirt leaving skin soft and smooth and it helps with renewal of new skin. It also relaxes tense muscles, relieves tiredness, help with ease of pains and aches which eventually relieves your stress, providing you with relaxation and restfulness.

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Housewarming gifts from the heart:

“Bread – So you never go hungry.

Wine – So your life is always sweet.

Salt – So there is always spice in your life.

And a Candle – So you always have light.”

The above poem is rumored to be of European or Russian origin, enduring the passage of time, and still widely referred to today. Recently, I went to a housewarming party, bringing with me a loaf of raisin bran bread, granulate sea salt, and a bottle of Riesling. I had forgotten the candle, but luckily there were more than enough candles as someone was also celebrating a birthday.

Although my housewarming gifts were a hit (no doubt due in part to the fact that I was one of the only people who brought anything), I couldn’t help but think there could be more depth to the gifts. After all, most new homeowners already have bread, wine, salt and candles, in the traditional sense. It occurred to me that the way to uphold this great tradition, while spicing it up with some creativity, is to find other things that could be considered bread, wine, salt, or candles. This is what I came up with:

Bread

Being such a simple food, it really pays to get creative when deciding what kind of bread to bring. Forego a boring loaf of sourdough or baguette and go for something with flavor, like cinnamon raisin bread, banana bread, or one of my personal favorites, pumpernickel.
Other ideas that can be a creative stretch include biscuits, cornbreads, or even bread pudding.

Wine

I am no wine connoisseur, but my suggestion for this is to bring something that can be consumed at the very party you’re attending. At the housewarming I went to, my bottle of Riesling perfectly replaced the empty bottle on the dining table. It helps if you know what types of wine the hosts enjoy. If you want to take it a step further, you could even bring a wine rack or cooler to help furnish the new house.

Salt

This one is as simple or as interesting as you want it to be. Go with iodized salt, sea salt, garlic salt, etc., if you want to be traditional. If you want to be the life of the party, bring soy sauce or bath salt. Also, if you know they have a small pet like a hamster, you could bring a salt lick / salt block for it. While you’re at it, you might as well bring a fish tank for saltwater fish. It’s normally frowned upon to bring a pet as a housewarming gift, but hey, there’s always Ebay if they don’t want it.

Candle

Pass on the requisite aromatherapy candle from Bath and Body, and bring a ceramic table lamp (1,2) that your new homeowner friends could actually use. After all, this is the 21st century.

So remember, the next time you have to buy a housewarming gift, bring a 21st century twist to a 16th century tradition.

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