5 Salt Bath Recipes

Many cultures historically have a bath ritual in their tradition. We usually take bath for relaxation, self-care on a physical and emotional level. Soaking your body in warm water can be very therapeutic, by removing toxins, tensions, healing muscles, joints, and skin. Traditionally baths would have different types of salts, flowers, herbs, oils, or other ingredients with healing properties.  I would like to talk about different 5 Salt bath recipes that you can do yourself. As always, speak to your healthcare specialist before undertaking any new treatments.

For the base of these salt bath recipes, you can use pink/Himalayan salt, sea salt, or Epson salt. It is recommended to use Epson Salt that is a food-grade salt. In the recipes, you can use any kind of salt that is mentioned above. The salt contains a lot of minerals, include potassium, iron, calcium, and magnesium.

It is recommended to soak your body in warm water for at least 15-20 min once per week.

Before we jump into the recipes, let’s list some benefits of the salts that we mentioned.

Benefits:

1. helps with skin problems, irritation, acne, eczema, psoriasis
2.  softens rough, dry skin
3. exfoliates dead skin cells
4. soothes soreness and pain in muscles
5. reduces stress
6. calms and relaxes the nervous system
7. helps with respiratory problems
8. helps with insomnia
9. stimulating circulation.
10. helps to relieve stiffness in joints.
11. soothes achy, overworked legs and feet.

5 Salt Bath Recipes:

• Lavender Dream.

For this recipe, you would need 1/4 cup of Epson Salt, 4-5 drops of lavender oil, and lavender flowers. A great mix to relax your body and mind. Helps to reduce stress after a long day or a heavy workout in the gym. Lavender oil and flowers give an amazing aroma. Additionally, you can add 3 drops of ylang-ylang essential oil.

• Eucalyptus with rosemary

You can use any kind of salt that was mentioned before, then add 4-5 drops of eucalyptus essential oil and rosemary essential oil. Also, as a choice, you can make a strong tea out of rosemary leaves and branches and add it to your bath. Which is great for the skin and hair.

• Rose Petals and Hibiscus

You need 1/4 cup of rose petals, and 1 tbsp of dry hibiscus tea leaves. You can prepare the tea mix in advance, or you can add it to the hot bath. Following with 1/2 cup of rose water. Soothing and relaxing.

• Ginger, Coconut Oil, Baking Soda

Add 1 tbsp of ginger powder, 1 tbsp of raw (unrefined) coconut oil, 1/4 cup of baking soda. Following with 4-5 essential oils you like. Anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, exfoliating.

• Patchouli, Olive Leaf Powder, Olive Oil

For this recipe, you would need 4-5 drops of patchouli essential oil, 2 tsp of olive leaf powder, 2 tbsp of extra virgin olive oil. Grounding, anti-inflammatory, moisturizing.

• Calendula Sunshine

Last but not least, for this recipe you need 1 cup of sea salt, 1 cup of dry calendula flowers, 1 tsp of turmeric powder, 1/4 cup of olive oil, and 7 drops of geranium oil. Anti-inflammatory.

In conclusion:

All these recipes are for you to play with. You can switch the ingredients. Have fun with it!