Today I’m posting three of my favorite bath salt recipes. The first recipe is for dry skin, the second for oily skin, and the third for a good dose of rest and relaxation.
Bath Salts Recipe: # 1 dry skin
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Modified Tapioca Starch
1 cup Baking soda
5 cups Dead Sea salt
1 ½ Tsp Roman chamomile essential oil. For more information on Roman Chamomile essential oil click here [1].
1 ½ Tsp lavender essential oil. For more information on lavender essential oil click here [2].
1/16 – 1/8 tsp mica or soap safe colorant 1 drop at a time (optional)
Instructions:
Add essential oils to the tapioca starch and mix well.
Stir in salts to the tapioca starch/essential oil mix. Note: too much liquid colorant may start the baking soda fizzing. Colored micas may also be used by thoroughly mixing in a tiny amount at a time.
Bath salts recipe: # 2 for oily skin
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Modified Tapioca Starch
1 cup Baking soda
5 cups Dead Sea salt
1 1/2 tsp Clary Sage Essential Oil. For more information on Clary sage essential oil click here [3].
1 1/2 tsp Lemon Essential Oil
1/16 – 1/8 tsp mica or soap safe colorant 1 drop at a time (optional)
Instructions:
Add essential oils to the tapioca starch and mix well.
Stir in salts to the tapioca starch/essential oil mix. Note: too much liquid colorant may start the baking soda fizzing. Colored micas may also be used by thoroughly mixing in a tiny amount at a time.
Bath salts recipe: # 3 for a totally relaxing bath
1/2 cup Modified Tapioca Starch
1 cup Baking soda
5 cups Dead Sea salt
1 ½ Tsp frankincense essential oil. For more information on frankincense essential oil click here [4].
1 ½ Tsp lavender essential oil
1/16 – 1/8 tsp mica or soap safe colorant 1 drop at a time (optional)
Instructions:
Add essential oils to the tapioca starch and mix well.
Stir in salts to the tapioca starch/essential oil mix. Note: too much liquid colorant may start the baking soda fizzing. Colored micas may also be used by thoroughly mixing in a tiny amount at a time.
You’ll notice that each bath salt recipe is identical with the exception of the essential oils used. Here’s a little hint. Since you’ll be adding from ½ to 1 cup of salts to your bath at a time, by cutting the basic bath salts ingredients in half, and adding different essential oil combinations to each half, you will have roughly 3 cups of bath salts or enough for from 3 to six baths. That way you can have three to six baths with one combination of essential oils and three to six baths with another combination.
Another thing, I would consider is leaving out the colorant unless you’re making the bath salts as a gift. You don’t really need colorant, it’s purely for looks and it complicates things. If you do use colorants, use discretion. A small amount goes a long way.
Now go have fun and relax.