Homemade Bath Salts – The "Secret Ingredient" For Success
Homemade bath salts are easy to make yet they look like a purchased gift from an exclusive spa. You have likely seen pretty colored and scented bath salts in bath and body stores for up prices up to $15.99 a bottle. What you probably didn’t already know is that the markup on this product can be up to 600%. Ouch! This means that the raw ingredients to make them cost only about $2.28. I refuse to pay this ridiculous markup on this bath product, and so should you, as they are so simple to make. How simple are they to make? So simple that a child could easily make them! But you should know that there is a “secret ingredient” that will greatly improve your finished product’s ability to retain its scent, prevents caking and increases its shelf life.
The only ingredient that you may have a problem finding for your homemade bath salts is dendritic salt, and bingo–it’s the secret ingredient! All other ingredients to create homemade bath salts can be easily found in your local drug and grocery stores. Dendritic salt is added to help the bath salts hold their fragrance better, as well as reduce the caking sometimes seen with salts.Dendritic salt is a man-made product. It is made by adding a very small amount of yellow prussate to sodium chloride. This makes the sodium chloride crystals grow in a star pattern, giving the dendritic salt a larger surface area. In turn, the larger surface area of the crystals enables the salt to hold on to the molecules of fragrance better than regular salt crystals can.
Although dendritic salt is an optional ingredient in homemade bath salts, it is advisable to use it if you are using essential oils in your bath salts. Essential oils can, and do, go rancid when exposed to the magnesium in Epsom and sea salts. Adding dendritic salt to your recipe can add a longer (and much better smelling) shelf life to your bath salts. If you can’t find dendritic salt on the shelves of your local stores, there are a number of online suppliers that carry them, and they are not horribly expensive. One online supplier sells them for $3.36 for a 5lb. container. As well as preventing your essential oils becoming quickly rancid, the addition of dendritic salt to your bath salts recipe reduces the caking sometimes seen with salts.
Now that you know the “secret ingredient” in creating homemade bath salts, here are the other ingredients that turn a plain old soak into a real retreat. The other ingredients you will need are glycerin, Epsom and/or sea salts, baking soda,essential or fragrance oils, colorant and a little vegetable oil of your choice. That’s it! Just stir these ingredients together and put in a pretty bottle to make an easy, colorful and thoughtful gift for family and friends that’s kind to your wallet and the environment too. Even canning jars with lids make great containers for your finished product when you tie them with a pretty bow.
By: Michelle Lee Summers
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Home Bath Spa Products – Fun Recipes to Try
Almost all of us dream of having a smooth and clear complexion. Using bath spa products can really help in rejuvenating the skin. Women in particular are overly concerned when it comes to their skin. Some are lucky enough to inherit good genes which are the reasons why they have perfect-looking skin. Those who are not that fortunate are really exerting their efforts to achieve the skin that they want.
There are several bath spa products that are available in the market, products that are very expensive but are said to be effective. Many people began complaining after buying those bath spa products. They ended up frustrated and disappointed because those products didn’t make a good difference to their skin when it promised to do wonders. What is even more sad is that after buying those bath spa products, some actually reported the condition of their skin became worse.
Well, there is nothing wrong with wanting to have a perfect looking skin. Who doesn’t want it anyway? Having a great skin can be considered as an asset to everyone. To achieve a marvelous skin doesn’t always mean that you have to spend a lot of money. Sometimes the answer to our problems can only be found at home. We just have to use our eyes and become resourceful with the naturally available product ingredients around us.
Isn’t if funny to know you can just go and raid your kitchen you can see a lot of alternatives to those pricey bath spa products? You just have to experiment a bit. But if you are not that prepared to do some experiments then the following homemade recipes for bath spa products can be of great help:
Skin Softening Bath Recipe:
Fields of Gold
Ingredients are: 4 cups powdered milk, 1 cup boiled water, and
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Detox Your Body With a Soothing Crystal Salt Bath
For those of you who are not yet familiar with Himalayan crystal salt, you do not know what you are missing! This good-for-you salt is not just a wonderful flavor enhancer, but multi-purpose health aid as well. It is as different from other salts as a diamond is from coal, and is even better for you than the high-class sea salts on the market. It can be used in a variety of protocols for improving health, both internally and externally, but possibly the most pleasant application you will find for crystal salt is using it as a bath soak ingredient. If you are heavily toxic and find that drinking a salt brine solution designed to detox the body brings on discomfort or a healing crisis due to an accelerated detoxification process, you can always discontinue taking it and do salt baths instead. They are easier on your system because the toxins are drawn out via the skin and do not have to pass through the liver and kidneys to exit the body.
And you do not have to worry about the salt drying out your skin–it will actually have the opposite effect. The salt is alkalizing, and even though you may have heard you need to use products with an acid pH to maintain the mantle of the skin, that is a dermatological myth. Most adults do have acidic skin, but that does not mean that is the way it is supposed to be. We all know the saying “soft and smooth as a baby’s bottom,” and the fact is that babies have an alkaline skin, with a pH of 8.0. The amniotic fluid where that skin spent months living and growing actually has an even higher alkaline pH of 8.5. Using crystal salt in your bath can actually alkalize the water to 8.5, just like the fluid inside your mother’s womb. This results in an incredibly relaxing, rejuvenating experience and a soft, smooth, silky feeling on your skin. It can also provide some people who suffer with chronic pain a level of relief from their symptoms.
So using crystal salt in the tub not only helps with detoxing the body, but also makes for a wonderful home spa treatment that gets rid of dead skin cells and softens and rehydrates the skin. For best results you should have a minimum salt concentration of 1%; that means for an average 28 gallon bathtub you would need 2.35 lbs. of crystal salt (the formula for a 1% solution is 1.28 ozs. of salt per gallon of water). Soak for 15 to 30 minutes or more (the salt will help maintain the heat of the water). If there are any un-dissolved salt crystals left by the time you are ready to rinse off, you can use them on your washcloth to help exfoliate your skin even further. Afterward, try foregoing using lotion as you normally would and just let your skin dry naturally. Then wrap up in something warm and rest for at least 30 minutes.
Other Health-Promoting Baths Using Crystal Salt:
Oxygen Bath -Oxygen baths can be valuable detoxing agents and increase the body’s energy. Try adding 1 cup 3% hydrogen peroxide to your bath water for 3 to 7 days to produce effects. This bath routine is stimulating rather than relaxing, and helps balance pH, reduce skin cancers, clear asthma and lung congestion, and relieve arthritis and rheumatism and other conditions where increased body oxygen is desirable. Add 1/2 cup crystal salt and 1/2 cup baking soda for extra benefit.
Mineral Replenishing Bath – Whenever you suffer from diarrhea, whether it is due to an illness or just part of the side effects of a detoxification program you are engaged in, you can loose vital minerals that will need to be replaced. This simple bath routine helps replenish minerals through the skin. Add the following ingredients to a tub of warm to hot water and soak for 20 minutes.
1/4 cup baking soda
1/8 cup crystal salt
Disclaimer: This information is provided as a guideline only, and is not meant to substitute for the advice of your physician or healthcare practitioner. Always consult a professional before undertaking any change to your normal health routine.
By: Zirah Hearn
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You can learn more about Himalayan crystal salt and it’s many uses and benefits by reading A Healthier You From the Inside Out, available from http://www.allonetogether.com. Also visit the To Your Health page of the site for tips about crystal salt and other simple, yet effective, means for improving overall health and well-being.
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