Homemade bath salts are so easy to make, that you will wonder why you ever even thought to buy them in the bath and beauty stores! Most bath salts really have very few ingredients; and these are largely very inexpensive. I was extremely shocked and disappointed to learn that the mark up on spa products such as bath salts can be up to 600%–no wonder spa owners don’t want us to know what is really in them.
Typical bath salts have only 3-4 main ingredients. These are Epsom salts, often combined in a blend of 2:1 with sea salt, baking soda, which acts as a water softener and optional added color and scent. Skin-safe fragrance oils are often used to give your bath salts their pleasant aroma, or alternatively, essential oils may be used to create aromatherapy bath salts. These ingredients are simply stirred together, and voila! Homemade bath salts are thus created easily and inexpensively. Often a special type of salt known as dendritic salt is added as well in the amount of about 5% of the total amount. Dendritic salt keeps the salt from clumping together, and aids in retaining the fragrance of the product.
Often. makers of homemade bath salts choose to create bath salts with colors that match the fragrance that they have chosen for their bath salts. For example, a peach-scented bath salt calls for the salts to be tinted light orange to match. Or woodsy scents like cedarwood are tinted a deep green or brown. The choice is entirely yours, which is one of the nicest things about making your own homemade bath salts.
Soaking in homemade bath salts is very benefical to anyone with aches and pains, as soaking in Epsom salts is well-known for reliving muscle fatigue. You can even choose to make homemade bath salts from special types of salts such as Dead Sea salt and Himilayan pink salt among others, all chosen for their special therapeutic properties.
Now you understand just how easy and inexpensive it is to create your own homemade bath salts. Forget those bath salts you see in the designer bath boutiques–just get out a big bowl, some salts and go to town making your own homemade bath salts.
