Indulge and Relax with Home Made Bath Products

On these cold evenings a soak in the tub can make all the difference.  I love to take a bath – soak, relax, read my book – perfection!  Many of the bath products contain petroleum products, ingredients I have no idea how to pronounce or what they are and then the all natural products can be quite costly.  So what did I do.. I researched and made my own.  What fun – mixing and grinding and experimenting.  I wish I could put a scratch and smell sticker here so you could smell the house – it was worth it just for that!  I made some for myself and some for gifts – we are all so busy and it seems that we take less and less time for ourselves – to nourish or bodies and souls and to just take care.

I made an assortment of products: Bath Salts, Salt Scrubs and Bath Tea Bags.

Bath Salts

Ingredients

2 cups sea salt (I used Brazilian sea salt)
Essential Oil (I used a combination of Orange and Grapefruit)

1. Pour the salt into a glass bowl and then add the essential oil – (about 20 – 30 drops. my combination was 20 drops orange and 10 drops grapefruit) – stirring as you go.  If you put too much oil in the salt will clump.

2. Store in a glass container.  If you decide to do plastic (please try not to) the oil will be absorbed into the plastic.

 

Bath Tea Bags

Ingredients

1 cup finely ground oatmeal
1/2 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup wheat bran
1/4 – 1/2 cup dried lavender flowers (that will be ground)
A good handful of dried lavender flowers
Sachet bags or tea bags
Ribbon

I also did a combination with chamomile flowers.

1. Place the oatmeal, powdered milk, wheat germ and lavender in a food processor. Blend them.

 

 

 

2. Mix in the handful of dried lavender flowers and mix with a spoon.

3, Fill sachet bags – I used both sachet bags and biodegradable tea bags.

 

These bags can be placed directly in the bath water, but the best way to use them is to hang them on the faucet and let the water run through them as the bath is filling.

 

 

 

 

 

Store them in glass jars – I used mason jars.

Salt Scrubs

Ingredients

1 cup Dead Sea Salt
1/c cup oil (I used a combination of jojoba and almond oil)
5 – 15 drops essential oil

 

1. Put the sea salt in a glass bowl.

 

2. Slowly pour in the oil, mixing with a wooden spoon.

 

 

3. Once all the oil is mixed with the salt (the oil will rise to the top) add the essential oil. stir with a wooden spoon.

 

4. Fill glass jars with the scrub – with a large enough opening to get your fingers in there.

 

 

 

 

 

Take some of the salt scrub with your fingers and rub over dry skin, rinse.  Your skin with fill alive and soft!

I am experimenting with some other recipes – so watch for future posts!

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