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Get Free From Stress With Aromatherapy Bath Salt
Aromatherapy bath salt combines the healing properties of salt with the relaxing fragrance of aromatic oils, to bring about a deeper level of relaxation and relief from stress. Salt is well known for its healing and cleansing properties. It is believed to clear our energy fields from any toxic or harmful substances. A salt water bath is a miraculous way to cure oneself of body aches and joint pains. And aromatherapy has its own wonderful healing effects on our body through our olfactory system. Combined together, the two therapies make an excellent healing tool!
Not only does an aromatherapy bath salt help alleviate muscle and joint pain, and provide relief from stress and anxiety, it can also be used to cure various chronic skin conditions and other serious ailments like seborrhea, osteoarthritis and psoriasis. Dead Sea Salt is one of the most potent healing remedy for these diseases. Various research studies have also been conducted on it, reporting 80% relief from the pain after a bath with the Dead Sea Salt.
Apart from the Dead Sea Salt, there are various other salts, used as an aromatherapy bath salt. Some of them are:
* Sea Salt - The most basic salt, most easily available and very inexpensive. It contains a lot of minerals and is available in small, medium and coarse grains.
* Epsom Salt - Clean, white, sparkling salt containing magnesium sulfate but no sodium chloride. It is great from removing toxins from your body and for releasing aches and pains.
* European Spa Salt - Mainly composed of sodium chloride, this is one of the most expensive bath salts, harvested from the Mediterranean Sea.
* Icelandic Brine Salt - Dissolves instantly, leaves skin feeling silky soft, relaxes sore and tired muscles and detoxifies your skin from dry, scaling skin conditions. It is gentle enough to be used for a baby's bath.
* Dendritic Salt - Available in a unique crystalline form, it dissolves in water very quickly and retains the scents in bath salts for a longer period of time. Hence, it is always good to use 10% of this salt in each aromatherapy bath salt recipe of yours.
* Pickling Salt - Same as the table salt, but larger and not iodized or treated with anti-caking additives.
* Solar salt - Mainly used only as a complimentary salt in bath recipes. It takes a long time to dissolve because of its large size.
* Hawaiian Red Salt - High in iron oxide, with a rusty red color, this salt has healing properties for sore throats, gum infections, wounds, body aches and muscle sprains.
* Black Sea Pink Salt - Provides pain relief from rheumatism, psoriasis, arthritis, eczema and muscle strain. This unique luxury salt also improves the health of the skin.
Make Your Own Bath Salts
Apart from the above mentioned bath salts, you can make your own special bath salts by mixing two or more of these salts together to get a more beneficial result. Or you can use the salts in combination with essential aroma oils, to create your own aromatherapy bath salt recipes.
For example, try using 10 drops of a soothing essential oil, like Lavender, Rose or Jasmine, with 2 cups of Epsom Salt or Sea Salt. Also add some moisturizing carrier oil like sweet almond, olive oil or coconut oil. Use this blended aromatherapy bath salt mixture, and see the difference in the results.
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Make Bath Salts: 5 Techniques For A More Professional Bath Salt Recipe
If you've already made a basic bath salt, but you want to produce a more professional product, you'll love these simple techniques. They'll make your bath salts less "homebrew" and more spa-quality. Once you start using them, you will feel more confident giving your handmade bath salts as gifts or presenting them for sale at a store or craft fair.
All of these techniques are just twists or extensions on what you already know. Doing them takes no more time than putting together basic bath salts.
1) The "secret" ingredient - dendritic salt.
If your bath salts come out damp or oily, they cake up into unsightly chunks, or they lose their scent too fast, you must use dendritic salt. It is basically a fine-grained table salt, but it has twice the power of oil and moisture absorbtion. Just mix your fragrance, moisturizing oils, and liquid color into the dendritic salt first, then mix the dendritic salt into your bulk bath salt.
Usage: Start with 1 part dendritic salt to 5 parts bulk salt. Don't be afraid to use more if you need it to keep your bath salts dry; it's just plain old sodium chloride.
2) Powdered, concentrated colorant instead of food coloring.
Most people start coloring their bath salt with consumer-strength FD&C dye, which is food coloring. If you want a wider range of colors, such as a good lavender, and more vivid bath salts that will color the bathwater, you should use powdered colorant instead. Powdered colorant can either be dye, such as FD&C dye, or mica. Use either kind, but make sure that it's water soluble.
Usage: Disperse 1/4 teaspoon of powdered colorant in 1 ounce of water in a dropper or spray bottle. Blend into dendritic salt first or spray a fine mist directly onto your bath salt mix.
3) Make fizzing bath salts.
Fizzing bath salts are easy to make and add something special to the experience. If you've made bath bombs before, the ingredients are the same. Make a "fizz powder" of 2 parts baking soda to 1 part citric acid, and incorporate it into your bath salts. The bath salts will have a powdery feel, but they will flow better and stay dryer as a result.
Usage: I recommend 1/4 cup of "fizz powder" in each serving of bath salts.
4) Use better bulk salt from the Dead Sea.
Dead Sea salt is the best bulk salt, better than Atlantic sea salt or Epsom salt. Why is this? Because Dead Sea salt has an incredible mineral profile, much more than the other two. Dead Sea salt has been the subject of numerous health studies, which have shown it to help with eczema, improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and more. It is more expensive than Atlantic sea salt or Epsom salt, but the therapeutic benefit is worth the cost. Use essential oils in combination with Dead Sea salt for the benefits of aromatherapy as well!
Usage: 1/2 to 2 cups per bath for maximum effect.
5) Get the most out of your mineral bath.
Did you know that if you run the bath water too hot, you won't get any of the minerals? Though the heat can be soothing, temperatures that are too high will make your pores close, preventing absorption of any minerals. In addition, hot baths will make you sweat, just like a sauna, and you may feel tired or sluggish from dehydration.
Usage: The ideal bath temperature is tepid to warm, not so hot that you feel the urge to jerk your foot out of the water when you test it.
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Katherine Durkes is the author of three how-to guides on how to make bath and body, perfume, and home fragrance products. She runs the Excellent Living Guide, a newsletter and website with tips, techniques, and articles on "do it yourself" projects, and a Yahoo Group for aspiring craft business owners. Visit www.excellentlivingguide.com for more creative bath and beauty projects.
