How To Make Bath Salts In 5 Minutes

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

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

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

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

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!

Top 5 Essential Oils for Bath Salts

1. Lavender Essential Oil

Used in DIY bath salts, lavender essential oil helps relieve the following:

1. • 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:

• • 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!