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Bath Salts are a popular and beneficial aromatherapy product. Making your own bath salts at home is fairly simple and also not very time consuming or expensive. Bath salts are a wonderful way to implement aromatherapy benefits in your life. Bath salts can be created from essential oils, dried herbs and colorants. The main ingredients for making bath salts are baking soda, table salt and epsom salt which are available at a local grocery store. Bath salts bought from the market can contain harsh ingredients that could irritate the skin. Preparing bath salts at home gives you the surety that your bath salts are perfectly safe to use.
Some Tips before you make your own Aromatherapy Bath Salts at home.
Blending Bath Salts: Sea salts and essential oils form a great and useful combination. The relaxing properties of hot water, compliment the effects of well-chosen salts and essential oils. The therapeutic benefits of sea salt baths are well known and often recommended by doctors for treating a wide range of medical conditions that people usually suffer from.
Dried Herbs: Most of the dried herbs have the properties and fragrance of their essential oil counterparts. Herbs can be added to bath salts and bath teas to have a more effective finished product. Only draw back being, they are a little messy. The solution to this is to use an organza bag with your salts with the dried herbs tied in it and keep it soaked in the bath water.
Simple Inexpensive and Fun Ways to Make Bath Salts at Home
To make your own aromatherapy bath salts, create a base recipe, to this, add any aromatherapy ingredient of your choice. To make a base recipe, mix 3 parts of epsom salts, 2 parts of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and 1 part of rock crystal salt or sea salt.
Put the above ingredient in a large bowl and mix it with your hands or a large spoon. Then you are ready to add your own scents and colors.
Essential oils are the best choice for preparing aromatherapy bath salts. Make sure that you add few drops at a time and blend them well till a strong fragrance is achieved. The smell would be diluted when the salt is added to water. If you feel that the scent is too overpowering, simply add some more of the base mixture to reduce the strength of the scent.
Adding colors can be a good idea if you plan to leave your salts out on a bathroom shelf or plan to give them away as gifts. By making different bath salts of different shades of color, you will be less likely to mix them up. Colors that can be used are food dyes or cosmetic grade. But take care not to use too much food dye as it can discolor some white porcelain tubs. If you want to have a blended shade other than the primary shade then make sure you mix the colors before you add them to the salts to avoid having multi colored salts. Like fragrance oils, add colors by the drop while mixing until you are satisfied with the result.
It is fun to experiment with mixing your favorite scents and colors into your base mix. Here are some great recipes for aromatherapy bath salts to start you off:
Citrus Salt for an uplifting, energizing affect.
Mix 2 parts orange oil and 1 part lemon oil and add to base. Add orange or yellow colorant.
Lavender Splash for relaxation or for healing depression.
Mix 3 parts lavender oil, 1 part thyme oil and 1 part sage oil, then add to base. Add purple colorant.
Spicy Treat for enhancing sensuality
Mix 1 part cinnamon oil, ½ part cardamom oil and ½ part patchouli oil. Add red colorant.
Fruit Cocktail for a naughty evening
Mix 2 parts strawberry oil, 1 part melon oil and 1 part kiwi oil. Add pink colorant
Make sure you store your aromatherapy bath salts in a wide and airtight container so that they do not harden due to moisture and are easy to scoop out. If the salts harden then they are impossible to salvage.
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