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Bath Salts Recipe
Bath Salts are an easily prepared alternative to bath herbs,
and are to be preferred to the mixtures now on the market; most of these
chemical-ridden formulas are almost guaranteed to irritate your skin.
Bath salts are used for many different purposes, and they make great gifts too.
The basic ingredients are table salt, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) &
Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate). Some herbalists also use borax.
Add the salts to a large bowl in these
proportions:
3 parts Epsom salts
2 parts baking soda
1 part table salt (or borax)
Essential (scented, herbal/floral) Oils
Tip: try it with vanilla extract
Mix thoroughly using your hands to stir the ingredients. .
This is now the base from which you can create a wide variety of bath salts.
Its wise to add colors to bath salts. Use plain food coloring for this purpose,
letting it fall drop by drop onto the salt base. If two or more colors are
required to mix an exotic hue (such as purple), mix these in a spoon first and
then add to the salts to avoid creating a two-toned product, unless of course,
you plan on a two or three tone salt. Add many drops for a darker colored salt;
fewer for a lightly hued salt. Mix the color into the salts until it is evenly
distributed; again use your hands or you may use a utensil.
Now add the essential oils drop by drop, one ingredient at a time, until the
scent seems right. using your hands and fingertips, mix it until all salt
particles are moistened. This may take up to fifteen minutes or longer. As to
proportions, rely on your nose to determine the exact quanties. The more potent
the finished products' scent, the less will have to be used for each bath. They
should be strongly scented.
To use, add from 2 tablespoons to one-half cup of the bath salts to a full tub.
Mix with your hands into the water. Relax, enjoy!!
NOTE: For bath salts place in a
deep wide rimmed container, dont use a small bottle neck as the salts may
harden, making it almost impossible to get out.
Simply Done Bath Salts Recipe
Materials
Epsom salts
Food coloring
Fragrance (scented oils)
Mix the Epsom salts, food coloring and fragrance.
Fill a baby food jar, label, and put a pretty covering on the jar lid,
such as wrapping paper and ribbon.
Desert Sands Bath Salts
5 drops yellow food coloring
2 drops red food coloring
4 drops musk oil
3 drops Jasmine oil
3 cups epsom salts
1 cup baking soda
2 teaspoons glycerin
Combine baking soda, epsom salt and glycerin until well
blended, add scents stirring until there is no clumps just a fine powder.
Divide the mixture evenly into 3 separate bowls.
In the first bowl add 3 drops yellow food coloring, in the second add 3 drops
red food coloring and in the 3rd bowl add 2 drops yellow with 1 drop red food
coloring...stir each bowl until the color is well mixed. Allow the air to dry
it for a few hours before placing in a bottle. Once dried, layer the
colors...red first, then orange then lastly yellow.
Fizzing Bath Crystals Recipe
1/3 cup baking soda
1/4 cup citric acid crystals
1 Tbsp. cornstarch
Mix ingredients and place in an airtight container. Keep salts
dry, moisture will cause them to react and fizz. Sprinkle about 1/4 cup of the
salts into warm tub of water.
Make Bath Bombs Recipe
1 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 cup citric or ascorbic acid
1/8 cup epson salt
1/2 cup olive oil
20 to 28 drop fragrance oil
Mix very well. Add UP to 1/2 cup olive oil, until the
consistency of pastry dough. Add a 20 to 28 drops fragrance oil if you want
them scented. Put on cookie sheet and put wax paper down. Form into small,
golf- sized balls, and Store in cellophane wrapper, and then put your bath
bombs into glass jars for each scent you make.
Easy Bath Oil Recipe
Use mineral oil or baby oil
a few drops of food coloring
Pour a small amount into running water, a little goes a LONG
way. For a nice effect add a few drops of food coloring.
Minty Fresh Bath
1 cup fresh (chopped) or 1/4 cup dried mint
1 cup fresh bay leaves -finely chopped
1 teaspoon coconut oil
1 teaspoon of almond extract
Mix ingredients together then place in a mesh bag such as
cheesecloth. Place under hot running water. Sit back & enjoy your bath.
Skin So Soft Bath Recipe
1 cup of powdered milk
few drops of fragrant oil
Add powdered milk and fragrance to running bath water.
Fields Of Gold Relaxing Milk Bath
4 cups powdered milk
1 cup boiled water
1/2 cup dried chamomile or 5 chamomile tea bags
Steep chamomile in water for 20 minutes Strain liquid. Mix
liquid with milk and add to bath water. A real stress releaser!
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