Herbal Bath Salts Recipe
Ingredients:
- Epsom Salts
- Sea Salt
- zip-type bags to mix the salts and oils in
- Essential oil (not flavoring oils -- but "real"
- essential oil)
- Potpourri herbs of choice
- Food coloring (optional)
- Glycerin (optional)
- Pretty bottles (optional)
- 1 Rib bon to decorate bottles (optional)
Directions:
- Using approx. 2-to-1 proportions Epsom Salt and sea salt, mix in a big
- pan. This is your bath salt "base". Measure about 1 cup of the salt
- mixture int o each zippy bag. Place about 4 drops of essential oil
- into the salt mixture in each bag. Zip the bag closed and mix the salt
- and oil.
- Tear potpourri herbs into tiny pieces and add to the bags (We used
- lemon verbena, rose petals, lavender. I don' t know why we tore them
- except that they did look nicer all mixed with the salts. And,
- obviously, we didn' t tear the lavender; because it's already tiny! I
- suppose that larger pieces could clog up your bath drain, too.) Zip
- the bag closed and mix until you are happy with the proportions.
- Here is where I stopped adding things ... but others added a drop or
- two of glycerin to the salts to soften your skin. However, we were
- told that anyone who might be using the salts with a Jacuzzi should
- not use glycerin in the mixture because it would be bad for the
- Jacuzzi. Others added the food coloring to the salts and they turned
- out pretty, too. I didn't care for the red colored salts, personally,
- because the color didn't come out quite pink or red either. The
- glycerin and the food coloring will also give the salts a "wet look."
- We were told to keep the salt mixture in the zippy bag and to mix it
- around once a day for 2 weeks. Then, we could pour it into the
- decorated bottles!