How to Make Bath Salts

Did you know that you can pamper your skin with bath salts without spending those extra dollars. Here’s how you can make bath salts at home and feel rejuvenated!

What are Bath Salts
Bath Salts are a mixture of ingredients that we add to our bath water. Bath salts can be very refreshing for the skin and are quite popular among the various bath care products. Bath salts come in a variety of flavors, scents and colors. The shape of these salts may vary from the size of pebbles or common table salt.

Why Use Bath Salts
We often use various ingredients to add refreshment to our bathing experience. A wide range of bath products such as scented oils, perfumes, scrubs, soaps, moisturizers and many more enhance the luxuries of bathing. Bath salts play an important role in maintaining the moisture level and smoothness of our skin. They not only help in supplementing the salt in the water with which we take bath but also help in removing the dead cells from the skin surface. While the salt in the bath water reduces the skin bacteria, the removal of the dead cells ensure a smooth and healthy glow to the skin.

How to Use Bath Salts
In order to reap the best benefits of using bath salts, it is important to mix them with running water. This gives them adequate time to get mixed with the water and get completely dissolved. You can simply mix the bath salt in the water or make bubble and froth while using them.
Bath salts make wonderful gifts and/or crafts. So, you can start thinking of gifting your own hand-made bath salts to your loved ones, be it a Mother’s Day or Christmas or any such occasion.

How to Make Bath Salts
Some of the most common and easily available ingredients for making bath salts include Epsom or Dead Sea Salts, baking soda, liquid colorants, fragrance or essential oils and glycerin. However, you can experiment with a lot of other combinations while preparing your own bath salt such as scented/unscented shampoo, castile soap, olive oil, sunflower oil etc and many more.

Apart from beauty and skin care purposes, different ingredients are combined to prepare bath salts to be used as part of medical remedies or therapy treatments also. All these ingredients are easily available in all kinds of departmental or drug stores.For making bath salts you would just need to mix the ingredients with your preferred color and fragrance and then store the mixture in an air tight container, once it is dry. You can also decorate the container with dried flowers, colorful laces and ribbons, sea-shells, beads, glitters, sparkles, crystals etc. if it is meant for gift purposes.

Some Simple Recipes
Choose any of these for a refreshing bath time or an ideal gift.

• Sunflower and Dead Sea Salt
  Add two cups of Dead Sea Salts with two cups of sunflower petals and spray ¼ tablespoon of Anise Essential Oil to the mixture. This combination can be very effective during summer, leaving behind a fresh and relaxing impact. Use this before engaging yourself into heavy field activities or even dinner parties.
• Christmas Bath Salt
  Add one and a half cup of Epsom Salt with a few drops of peppermint oil and a few drops of food coloring according to your preference. Pour the content in a glass jar and decorate it nicely to add gifts to your holiday celebrations.
• Colored and Scented Bath Salt
  Mix two cups of Epsom salts and one cup of Rock/Sea/Course Salt together. Then mix ¼ teaspoon of glycerin, food colorants and essential oils/perfumes and stir it well before adding it with the mixture of the salts. Excessive water might lead the salts to dissolve in it and thus, restrict excessive use of water based ingredients.
• Desert Sands Bath Salt
  Mix one cup of baking soda with three cups of Epsom salts, two teaspoons of liquid glycerin and a few drops of jasmine fragrant and stir well. Use different food colorings to add to the mixture before putting an equal amount of the mixture to 2/3 bowls. Mix the color in each bowl properly and let them dry for some hours. After the mixture of each bowl has dried properly, pour them into the jar as layers.
• Bath Salt Scrubs
  For making bath salt scrubs you can use various herbs according to your preferred scent or fragrance oil. While Lemon and Orange Peels can be a good combination with a citrus scrub, Rosemary can be used with e peppermint scrub. Lavender based scrubs go well with lavender flower powder and rose petal powder compliments a rose scrub or any kind of other floral scrubs.

By Paramita Ghosh