I always walked by the variety of colorful packages of bath salts at the store, but didn’t think too much about them except they looked really nice. I didn’t know a thing about them, and I didn’t find any reason to use them at home. I always thought they were geared towards luxurious people.
Little did I know about the world of aromatherapy and how mother nature’s elements would enrich me in all facets of life. And these bath salts are the closest thing to taking a natural mineral bath in a hot spring, for they are made up of epsom salt and dead sea salt. I can take a hand full of these salts and massage them into my skin to get the dead ones off. And while I’m getting the dead skin off, I’m putting some moisture back in! What do you know? Nice natural remedy to soothe my mind, body, and soul, eh? So, naturally it would be neat to make a jar full of these at home.
Why is exfoliating the skin so important? Well, when you do you are opening the pores and encouraging the sweat and bacteria to leave the pores and attach to the bath salts in the bath water. When your pores are so fresh and so clean of all that bacteria, you are taking away the ammo to create pimples! The thought of that should make you feel all the more happy and content.
Or worse yet, if I had somehow (knocks on wood) been hit with some skin infections or a couple of bug bites, I could alleviate all of that by taking an Epsom salt bath and gently scrubbing away at the evil skin perpetrators.
To add to these mentioned benefits, there is even more. I’ve been talking about all of the things that homemade bath salts can do externally, but what is extra special is what they can do internally. If you have any tension in your muscles, you can massage the salts into your arms. I am sure that you must have experienced muscle tenderness at least once in your life.
You yourself can also calm down when you breathe in the amazing-smelling scents from the essential oils used to mix in with the homemade bath salts. You will find your mood ease up, your stress lift, and your well-being feeling that much better as you breathe in the Cinnamon and Ylang Ylang oils.
If you stay in the bath long enough, be careful as your fingers will lose water and look like raisins. There’s only so much that the Epsom bath salts can do, as they do adjust the composition of the bath water and create a protective layer on the skin so that water does not enter or leave too much.
One little jar of homemade bath salts, a variety of health benefits to reap from. You would have never known that so much could come out of a pretty little colorful jar. It’s nice to know how these salts make you feel and smell inside and out. They are also relatively simple and also therapeutic to make.
Sydney Garrett likes homemade bath salts and stores tons of salt scrub ingredients for fun.
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