You finally have found something that you would want to make, bath salts. You start with the salts and the fragrance but somehow you feel like something is missing.
A lot of people are using bath salts, for medical and therapeutic reasons but is mostly used as a bath additive for cleaning the body and for relaxation. When making your own, you need basically two things: the salts - not just any ordinary salt but raw sea salt which can be found almost anywhere; and the fragrance of your choice or essential oil for added aromatherapy.
After making bath salts, you would want to make it look good and not look dull. The first thing you might probably want to put in is color, or colors depending on how you would want the salts to come out. The safest way to go at it is to color your bath salt depending on the fragrance you use, e.g. blue when using lavender fragrance. Or you can go wild, using multiple colors depending on how you want your it to come out. You could use either liquid food coloring, or you could use water-soluble powdered colorants for a wider range of colors to choose from. Some people find it hard to find the right strength of a certain color, you might even have to do some trial and error before achieving the right strength. You might also would want to add some herbs to accompany the color and fragrance of your salts.
Another way of making your bath salt stand out is by adding a small amount of dendritic salt to your bath salt mixture. Don't be fooled by the impact of this small amount of salt to your mixture since it does have a huge impact. One, dendritic salt makes it better for the fragrance oils and colors to incorporate to your mixture. You can add the fragrance and color to the dendritic salt first before adding it to the main mixture since dendritic salts has basically twice the power of absorption. Two, because it absorbs better, dendritic salt makes the fragrance of the salt last longer. It also keeps the salt mixture from clumping when stored.
You can also use a better salt for your mixture. You can use dead sea salt in your bath salts instead. Why is this salt better? First off, the dead sea is well-known for its therapeutic and healing properties. The mineral composition of dead sea salts are greater than other salts. This is also one of the reasons why it has been a subject of a lot of studies and research. Choosing this as your base salt will make your bathing experience better. It has a single drawback though, it costs a little more than the other salts.
One thing also to keep in mind when you finished making the salts is that you would want to put it in a nice container. If you intend to keep the salts you're making, any simple jar or plastic container would do. But if you intend on making a profit out of the salts you just made, then you might to be creative in making the container for the salt. You might also want to consider using transparent containers or containers where you can actually see what's inside of them, specially when you add colors to your salts.
i love this, my own instructions for a wonderful bath. i have bookmarked this site, and will retutn to it to make my bath salts. thank you for sharing, and i hope you continue writing,
Great informative article, Elizabeth. I'm new to the use of bath salts and I haven't given any thought to making my own, but you make it sound easy and interesting. I may give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this information. I have never made bath salts, but you made it sound fun, because you can get so creative with it. God bless! Keep sharing your secrets with us.
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