Make Your Own Bath Salts
Making your own bath salts can be a rewarding and economic way to create your own personal spa at home.
The ingredients will vary based on your tastes and what you are looking for from the treatment. You can purchase Dead Sea salts for your blend as they are widely considered one of the best sources of therapeutic minerals for your skin and joints. Other Sea Salts, Epsom salt, Dendritic salt to avoid clumping or even common table salt can be used as well. You will also want to gather essential oils that have the properties you are looking for. Be careful in your choice of oils as some can be harmful to your skin. Check the bottle or contact the manufacturer to make sure.
Other ingredients can include food coloring, glycerin can be used as a softener and moisturizer. Honey can also be a moisturizing agent as well as an emulsifying agent. Just relax and experiment with different ingredient combinations to see which ones work best for you.
For a basic bath salt recipe, simply add a few drops of your favorite essential oils to a large glass or food grade plastic container. Add the salt, mix well, and let sit in a dark, cool place for a few days then try it out. If there’s too much oil, add more salt to the mixture, mix it up a leave it for a few more days. If there’s not enough oil, add a couple more drops.
Keep trying different combinations and ingredients until you find the perfect blend for you. Once you do, you will have found a fun and satisfying to have the perfect bath salt blend for yourself as well as saving a few bucks. What could be better?
One more note: while you’re experimenting, keep notes so you’ll be able to recreate that perfect blend when you find it.
By: Bryce Eddings
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Categories: Bath Salt Recipes Tags: Epsom Salt, Plastic Container, Salt Mix
Make Bath Salts: 5 Techniques For A More Professional Bath Salt Recipe
If you’ve already made a basic bath salt, but you want to produce a more professional product, you’ll love these simple techniques. They’ll make your bath salts less “homebrew” and more spa-quality. Once you start using them, you will feel more confident giving your handmade bath salts as gifts or presenting them for sale at a store or craft fair.
All of these techniques are just twists or extensions on what you already know. Doing them takes no more time than putting together basic bath salts.
1) The “secret” ingredient – dendritic salt.
If your bath salts come out damp or oily, they cake up into unsightly chunks, or they lose their scent too fast, you must use dendritic salt. It is basically a fine-grained table salt, but it has twice the power of oil and moisture absorbtion. Just mix your fragrance, moisturizing oils, and liquid color into the dendritic salt first, then mix the dendritic salt into your bulk bath salt.
Usage: Start with 1 part dendritic salt to 5 parts bulk salt. Don’t be afraid to use more if you need it to keep your bath salts dry; it’s just plain old sodium chloride.
2) Powdered, concentrated colorant instead of food coloring.
Most people start coloring their bath salt with consumer-strength FD&C dye, which is food coloring. If you want a wider range of colors, such as a good lavender, and more vivid bath salts that will color the bathwater, you should use powdered colorant instead. Powdered colorant can either be dye, such as FD&C dye, or mica. Use either kind, but make sure that it’s water soluble.
Usage: Disperse 1/4 teaspoon of powdered colorant in 1 ounce of water in a dropper or spray bottle. Blend into dendritic salt first or spray a fine mist directly onto your bath salt mix.
3) Make fizzing bath salts.
Fizzing bath salts are easy to make and add something special to the experience. If you’ve made bath bombs before, the ingredients are the same. Make a “fizz powder” of 2 parts baking soda to 1 part citric acid, and incorporate it into your bath salts. The bath salts will have a powdery feel, but they will flow better and stay dryer as a result.
Usage: I recommend 1/4 cup of “fizz powder” in each serving of bath salts.
4) Use better bulk salt from the Dead Sea.
Dead Sea salt is the best bulk salt, better than Atlantic sea salt or Epsom salt. Why is this? Because Dead Sea salt has an incredible mineral profile, much more than the other two. Dead Sea salt has been the subject of numerous health studies, which have shown it to help with eczema, improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and more. It is more expensive than Atlantic sea salt or Epsom salt, but the therapeutic benefit is worth the cost. Use essential oils in combination with Dead Sea salt for the benefits of aromatherapy as well!
Usage: 1/2 to 2 cups per bath for maximum effect.
5) Get the most out of your mineral bath.
Did you know that if you run the bath water too hot, you won’t get any of the minerals? Though the heat can be soothing, temperatures that are too high will make your pores close, preventing absorption of any minerals. In addition, hot baths will make you sweat, just like a sauna, and you may feel tired or sluggish from dehydration.
Usage: The ideal bath temperature is tepid to warm, not so hot that you feel the urge to jerk your foot out of the water when you test it.
Categories: Homemade Bath Salts Tags: Dropper, mineralbade mod eksem, puhdistamaton atlantin merisuola, Salt Mix, Table Salt