A Mom Just Like You.....My Journey through Life with 8 Children....

• Dec. 17, 2007 - Making your own Bath Salts......

Making your own Bath Salts...... To make your own bath salts use the following recipe....... 3 cups of Epsom salts 2 cups of baking soda 1 cup of table Celtic sea salt Food coloring (healthy kind from a health food store, usually food based) Essential oils of your choice (a good therapeutic brand like Wyndmere Naturals) Dried herbs of your choice chopped up Several small empty cloth tea bags to fill with mixtures Small quilted jelly mason jars (empty) Ribbons Bows Pretty colored netting Latex gloves Use a large mixing bowl and a utensil of some sort such as a spoon. Add all the dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl and begin mixing them together with your hands or the spoon. The next step is to slowly add the food coloring, if you choose to add some color to your bath salts mixture. Add enough to bring it to the desired color you wish it to be. (Mix with a utensil or if you use your hands wear gloves of some sort). Personally I don't use any coloring in my salts. Now take the herbs of your choice and grind them in a food processor a small chopper or a coffee grinder. You can use things like dried peppermint leaves, dried spearmint leaves, dried eucalyptus leaves, dried rose leaves, dried lavender flowers or any nice smelling and medicinal herbs of your choice. Take your herbs and mix them in well with your salt mixture. This step is optional. If you use the dried chopped herbs you WILL HAVE to use the empty cloth tea bags to put your mixture into. If you don't use the dried herbs the empty cloth tea bags are NO LONGER necessary to use they become optional at that point . Now take your essential oils add them to your salt mixture and mix them in well. Be sure to put plenty of oils in your mixture so it smells nice and strong. If you go back and read my archives choose oils that are fitting for what you are looking to achieve when you soak in your bath. Lavender is relaxing, cypress oil is good for spasms, frankincense is good for the skin and many other ailments, Peppermint is good for circulation and headaches, blue chamomile is good for muscle spasms, eucalyptus is good for the respiratory system and the list goes on. Rose smells good, orange is uplifting, ylang ylang is a pleasant smell, patchouli is good for the skin and also uplifts the mood. There are so many different things that the many different oils can achieve and they work in so many different ways. You can split up your mixture before adding the herbs and essential oils. In doing this you have the option to make many different batches. In doing so you then have the option to make many different scented blends with your bath salts. You can use the different blends for different needs. This also makes such a wonderful gift. If you decide to add your dried herbs to your mixture go ahead and fill one of the empty cloth tea bags with the complete mixture that has the the salts, oils, coloring, and dried herbs in it. Then tie a knot in the bag and all you have to do is throw the bag into a tub of hot running water. Now all you have to do is relax and enjoy it! When the salts are all gone and you are done with your bath you can hang the bag up to dry. Then next time all you have to do is refill that same bag with more salts. You can also reuse those same dried herbs a couple of times if you wish to do so. Or if you prefer not to all you have to do is just rinse them out of the bag and keep only the bag itself to use again. You can also use pretty colored netting bags and tie them closed with a pretty ribbon if you want to give them as gifts. Be sure people understand that they are not to open up the bags, if you put the dried herbs into their salt mixture, otherwise those herbs will clog up their tub. You can also fill small pretty quilted mason jelly jars with the mixture if you did not use any dried herbs in them, then wrap a pretty ribbon around it or put a bow on it. Tie a tag with directions of how to use it for the person receiving the gift. Use approx 1/4 cup of the salt mixture to a full tub of water. This is a very inexpensive, yet healthy, fun, great smelling and pretty gift to give to family and friends for Christmas. I think you will all enjoy these wonderful smelling salts and I think whoever you give it as a gift to will truly enjoy them too! Healthful living to you all! Merry Christmas!!!!! Dearest Lord, I thank you for the wonderful opportunity to make and give healthy gifts to those we love! Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share the gift of health with others! Always learning and loving it because of you Dear Lord! In Jesus name I pray, Amen~

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