Make your own bath salts
DIY bath salts – how it works
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Making bath salts yourself is very easy – and we can give family and friends a small, special treat with a hot bath.
Difficulty level: easy
expenditure of time: 45 minutes + drying time
Make your own bath salts – this is what you need:
- 3 bottles of 100 ml each
- per bottle: 6 level tablespoons Himalayan or sea salt, 3 level tablespoons Glauber’s salt (pharmacy)
- for coloring: 1 tsp moringa powder, 1 tsp elderberry or cranberry juice
- 5 drops of fragrance oil each (all from www.primaveralife.com): “Rose Geranium” (floral-rosy), “Turkish Rose” (strong-rosy) or “Manuka” (floral-fresh) or similar
- Packing for the bath salts: homemade/store-bought labels and wrapping paper, adhesive paper, embossed scalloped edge, gold sewing thread and green and white thread
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Make bath salt yourself – this is how it works:
- Mix salt types for homemade bath salts. For the green “Geranium Moringa” bath salt, add moringa powder and “rose geranium” scented oil. For the “Rose” and “Manuka” bath salts, mix the salt mixture with elderberry or cranberry juice and dry in the oven at 50 degrees; then add “Turkish Rose” fragrance oil for “Rose” and “Manuka” fragrance oil for “Manuka”. Fill each bath salt mix into a bottle.
- Prepare labels for the bath additives, if necessary print them out on adhesive paper, cut them out, write on them and stick them on the bottles with bath salts.
- Wrap the wrapping paper around the bottles and glue or tie with serrated border and twine. Stick labels on the packaged bottles with the salt.
Make bath salts with lavender yourself
Bath additive with lavender is also extremely popular – and we can very well make it ourselves. You need this:
- 1 tablespoon natural sea salt
- 4 tablespoons Epsom salt (from the pharmacy)
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 5 drops of lavender essential oil
- 1 tbsp almond oil (as carrier oil)
- 1 tbsp dried lavender flowers
- Here, too, the sea salt is mixed with the Epsom salt and the baking soda and then mixed with the lavender oil and the almond oil. Then the flowers must be carefully mixed into the powder.
- Before use, the lavender bath salt should rest for a day or two or you can dry it again in the oven at 50 degrees for a short time.
- The homemade bath additive can already be filled into bottles, which can then be labeled again. The perfect gift for a feel-good bath is ready.
Worth knowing: Difference between carrier oil and essential oils
There are two types of oils: carrier oils and essential oils. Carrier oils have a healing property. They contain vitamin E and have a soothing and firming effect and provide a radiant shine. Popular carrier oils include:
- almond oil
- argan oil
- avocado oil
- jojoba oil
Essential Oils rather have the task of smelling pleasant. The range of varieties is huge. So there is ffruity to aromatic notes. Carrier oils and essential oils usually appear as a duo – as with our bath salts.
