Name: Herbal Bath Salts
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 7 tbsp dead sea salt; 7 tbsp epsom salts; 2 tbsp baking soda; 1 tbsp castile soap, liquid; 1 tsp olive oil; 240 drops essential oils; 1 tbsp dried rose petals; 1 tbsp dried calendula flowers; 1 tbsp dried lavender flowers

Have you been working outside getting your garden ready? Ease those tired muscles after a long day with this herbal bath salts recipe.

Herbal bath salts recipe

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This is one my favorite things I’ve made so far. It’s just so beautiful! With all of the gorgeous ingredients, it is the perfect thing to help you relax after a long day.

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What’s in it?

This herbal bath salts recipe includes Dead Sea salt, epsom salt, and a variety of dried herbal flowers. I’ve used dried calendula flowers, rose petals, and lavender flowers. They all look and smell so beautifully, and they have beneficial properties for the skin.

Dead Sea salt and Epsom salts are full of minerals, which are great for relaxation. The minerals are also very good for skin health. I’ve added a little bit of baking soda also, since that helps the body be able to better use the Epsom salts and Dead Sea salt.

I’ve also added the Relax Synergy essential oil blend from Plant Therapy. This is a gorgeous, soothing essential oil blend that helps to ease the mind and relax the whole body. It is one of my favorites! I’ve also added some liquid Castile soap. Otherwise, the essential oils tend to sit undiluted on the top of the bath water, and that can be too harsh for skin. The Castile soap helps to dilute and disperse the essential oils into the bath water. I got the essential oil dilution tip from Plant Therapy’s wonderful website.

There is also a little bit of olive oil, which helps to further dilute the essential oils. It is also great for skin.

Customize it

As with so many DIY bath and body products, you are in full control over the end result! This herbal bath salts recipe is no exception. You can change the flowers to different herbs. The essential oil blend can be changed to another blend, or just a single oil. If you wanted to get really creative, you could even add some natural, plant based coloring to the bath salts to give it a fun color. (Just beware that coloring could stain your bathtub, so keep that in mind.)

The perfect gift

These herbal bath salts really do make a wonderful present for so many different people. They would be amazing for Mother’s Day, for birthdays or Christmas gifts. If you need something for teachers or coworkers, these would do nicely. Since they are so customizable, you could change the herbs and essential oils to fit different seasons and holidays.

Pro tip

When I first started experimenting with making bath salts, I ran into a problem: the bath salts would get hard when they sat in the container for a while! I figured out what was happening. There is a little bit of moisture left in the salts, especially the Dead Sea salt. When this sits over time, the salts tend to become hard. To solve this issues, the bath salts have to be dried. An easy way to do this is to bake the salts in the oven. My instructions below include this step. That way, your bath salts won’t get hard, but will stay easy to scoop until they’re all used up.

How to use it

There are a couple of different ways you can use this herbal bath salts recipe. They work wonderfully as a relaxing foot soak during a home pedicure. Of course, you can use them in a bathtub full of warm water, too. When using them for a bath, you can either scoop some of the bath salts mixture right into the tub, and let the flowers float all around. This is really gorgeous, but it does mean you’ll have to spend a little time cleaning the flowers out of your bathtub afterwards. If you’d rather skip the cleanup, you can still enjoy these bath salts, without the mess. Just scoop the mixture into a muslin bag, and hang the bag on the faucet below the water while the bathtub is filling. That way, the water can run over the bag and the beneficial properties will go into the bath water. When the bathtub is as full as you want it to be, let the bag float around in the water. And there will be no mess afterwards!

Stop and smell the roses

This blog post wouldn’t be complete without a little reminder to stop and make time to relax. Herbal baths with mineral rich salts are so therapeutic and good for us. We really should make sure to fit them into our schedule on a regular basis. In general, it’s really important to schedule in time for relaxation, no matter what form that takes. But a warm, soothing, herbal bath is definitely a great idea whenever you need some time to chill.