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How to make bath salts is a fun, quick and easy task and I will share what you need to craft up some amazing bath salts recipes at home from scratch in just 5 minutes! Nothing better than a relaxing bath coming home after a strenuous day at work. Bathing is as therapeutic as it is healing, especially when you use all-natural ingredients, healing salts like Himalayan salts and include essential oils like lavender essential oil!
Which Salt to Use for a Homemade Bath Salt Recipe?
Some of the most common homemade bath salts recipes used include Himalayan salt, Celtic salt, Dead Sea salt, and the most popular, Epsom salt. Each one has its own benefits that make them fragrant and therapeutic, and these are:
Himalayan salt is pink in color and its medicinal properties make it ideal as a DIY bath salt. Its benefits include:
- It relaxes and de-stresses
- It detoxifies your body
- It stimulates circulation
- It deeply cleanses your skin by drawing out toxins
- It re-hydrates your body with lost minerals
- It helps clear sinuses and works to provide respiratory relief
- It eases swelling and aches
- It soothes bites and blisters
Prices start from $10, and usually $5 per ounce or even higher.
Celtic salt is mostly compared with Sodium Chloride (table salt), and while table salt has its own benefits, it is not ideal for a relaxing bath. Celtic salt, similar to Himalayan salt, has the following benefits:
- It helps keep your body hydrated, and the fluids in balance
- It helps maintain blood pressure
- It is also known to reduce skin inflammation and dryness
- Promotes sinus health
- Prevents muscle cramps
- Balances blood sugars
- Improves brain function
- Promotes a restful sleep
Prices start from $5 for a 1 lb. bag, and it may go as high as $60.
Dead Sea salt contains a high concentration of minerals that help treat a variety of rheumatologic conditions. Some of the benefits include:
- Stimulates blood circulation
- Relives skin allergies
- Alleviates skin ailments like psoriasis and acne
- Detoxifies skin
- Hydrates your body
With a minimum cost of $0.20 per ounce, the price may reach up to over $40 per 5 lbs, it is an expensive sea sat but amazing healing properties.
Epsom salt is high in magnesium and sulfate, which is why it is very popular when it comes to detoxification. Its range of benefits include:
- Soothes the skin
- Reduces pain and soreness
- Helps people with arthritis greatly
- Helps reduce stress
- Reduces inflammation and makes pulling out splinters easier
- Promotes foot health
- Promotes blood circulation
- Relaxes muscles
Prices start from $5.50, and may go as high as $30.
How to make salt baths at home
I’ll share below a simple bath salt recipe but I am hoping that you will get inspired and create your own customized version! You can use the same ratio of salt and use an alternate salt mentioned in this blog post, as well as switch one essential oil for another, as long as it is mentioned below. The sky is the limit, you cannot go wrong here so have fun!
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup Himalayan salts
- 5 tsp of dried lavender buds
- 30 drops lavender essential oil
- 15 drops Cedarwood essential oil
- 1 4 oz spice jar or glass container
Instructions
- Step 1 - Gather the ingredients: the Himalayan salt, the lavender buds, and the essential oils.
- Step 2 - Grind the Himalayan salt in a spice or coffee grinder and pulse until the salt is broken down into smaller pieces. This will allow the bath salts to dissolve more easily in the water.
- Step 3 - Make the mixture: Mix the salts and lavender buds in a bowl.
- Step 4 – Add the essential oils, mix well. (optional)
- Step 4 – Bottle the Mixture in a pretty container and enjoy a relaxing and healing bath by adding 2 tablespoons of the bath salts in the water, you deserve it!
- This makes about 4 oz and can be kept up to a year.
Nutrition
Top 5 Essential Oils for Bath Salts
1. Lavender Essential Oil
Used in DIY bath salts, lavender essential oil helps relieve the following:
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- Rheumatism
- Restlessness
- Abdominal complaints
- Insomnia
- Loss of appetite
2. Rose Geranium Essential Oil
Rose geranium essential oil has the following beneficial properties:
- Anti-aging and antioxidant
- Antifungal, antimicrobial, and antiviral
- Anti-inflammatory
- Relieves pain
- Soothes anxiety
- Enhances relaxation
3. Ylang Ylang Essential Oil
Ylang Ylang essential oil provides the following benefits in salt bath recipes:
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- It enhances mood
- Reduces stress
- Lowers blood pressure
- Aphrodisiac
- Improves hair and skin
- Helps fight depression
- Relieves headache
4. Eucalyptus Essential Oil
Used in making bath salts, eucalyptus essential oil provides the following benefits:
- Helps fight bacteria
- Reduces inflammation
- Increases blood circulation
- Reduces headaches
- Soothes skin
- Improves breathing
- Eases pain
5. Chamomile Essential Oil
Chamomile essential oil is amazing to calm the mind and provides the following benefits:
- Improves digestion
- Eases skin conditions like rashes and eczema
- Promotes sleep
- Helps heal wounds
- Relieves muscular and other pain
How Do You Make Scented Bath Salts?
Using different essential oils with a bath salt brings out its scent; therefore, you need to be very careful when using a combination of essential oils. Some essential oils are very over-powering than others; therefore, add them in the right quantities so that they do not mask the properties of the salt and other ingredients. To keep it simple, use only 2 or maximum 3 types of essential oils in your salt bath recipe.
How Much Does it Cost to Make Bath Salts?
Making your own salt bath will always be less expensive than buying something already made in-store. Plus, you will have total control over the ingredients and can ensure it is using the highest quality ingredients. You will just have to watch out not to use too many essential oils as this can drive the cost of the bath salt up.
Top 5 Flowers to Add to Your Bath Salts
- Lavender Buds in bath salts provides the following benefits:
- Relieves stress
- Improves mindfulness
- Detoxifies the body
- De-stresses the mind
- Soothes the skin, mind and body
- Cornflower has the following properties:
- It provides herbal benefits
- It improves mindfulness
- It eases muscle aches
- Calendula provides the following benefits:
- It soothes the skin
- Adds hydration
- Helps provide comfort from mosquito bites, eczema, and rashes
- Dried Rose Petals provides the following benefits:
- It is fragrant
- Relieves stress
- Detoxifies the body and skin
- Relaxes the body and mind
- Chamomile flowers in DIY bath salts provide the following benefits:
- Whisks away stress
- The scent eases tension and headaches
- Calms nerves
- Improves breathing
Muscle Relaxing Bath Salts Recipe and essential oil blend
To get relief from muscle or other bodily aches, whip up some rosemary, peppermint, tangerine oils along with some Himalayan or Epsom Salt.
Therapeutic Bath Salts Recipe
Looking for something more therapeutic? Just add in a few drops of eucalyptus, clove and peppermint oils to Himalayan, Celtic or Dead Sea Salt.
Salt Bath Recipe with Coconut Oil
To add in an extra element of hydration, you can add 1 tablespoon of melted coconut oil to Himalayan, Celtic or Dead Sea Salt – the perfect concoction for winters!
I’ve love to hear from you about this DIY salt bath recipe, do you think this was helpful to learn how to make your own bath salts?
Please take two minutes of your time to let me know your thoughts in the comments below!
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I’m Eve, a DIY organic skincare recipe creator since 2010 that loves to make a big mess in the kitchen!
I’ve embarked on a journey to empower women to ditch all the chemical-filled commercial beauty products and to share how to make your own organic beauty recipes at home towards a healthier lifestyle.
Homemade face & body creams, body butter, lips balms, face masks, shampoos, and all-natural perfume will have no more secret for you!
I am self-taught, read many books, and spend many hours in the kitchen creating brand new homemade beauty recipes. All my recipes are unique and are tested on humans!
In 2016, I studied Aromatherapy and became certified by the School of Natural Health Sciences.
HI EVE. THANK YOU FOR SHARING ALL YOUR LOVELY RECIPES AND IDEA’S!
CAN I JUST ASK, CAN I PUT ANY ESSENTIAL OIL INTO MY SOY CANDLES? THANK YOU X
I made these salts with Rose Geranium, Rose Otto, and Bergamot. So nice!
Author
awesome! thanks Teresa 🙂
Hello Eve, I am new to the bath salts and just wondering if you can mix all 4 kinds of salts together for a bath? They all have great benefits but not sure if there would be a potential for a reaction on your skin with mixing them. Looking forward to trying this recipe with the Epsom salt first!
Author
Hi Lynn, yes you can mix all salts together, have fun!