Creating An Anti-Stress Bath Salt For Healthy Living! June 27, 2009

Sustainable Esscentials

We are all trying to live healthier lives, while being aware of using products that not only are safe for ourselves, but safe for the environment.

We want the following:

• A product that does whatever it’s supposed to
• Works without making us sick, giving us cancer, or scarring us for life
• It might even be good for us
• And it doesn’t need a bunch of extra packaging that gets taken to the dump

And although it would have been difficult in the past to find products that follow the above, healthy skin care products are made more and more often.

A easy product to use and have some pretty instant stress reduction is a jar of Bath Salts! Besides relieving us of stress and anxiety, they are inexpensive, never go bad (if kept dry), and they even make our skin feel great & we small better, besides!

I have just made a stress-relieving Bath Salt batch, and besides the initial mixing (and some math!), all I need to do is to let it sit for a week or two and it will be ready! The basic ingredients are:

• Sea Salt
• Essential Oils

and that’s it! Other natural ingredients can be added, but less is more in my opinion.. For this particular batch, I used:

• Rose Geranium (South African) EO (Pelargonium capitatum x radens)
• Pink Grapefruit EO (Citrus racemosa )
• Lavender Barreme EO (Lavandula angustifolia )
• 5% – Rosehips Extract (powdered) (Rosa canina)
• German Chamomile (Morocco) (Matricaria chamomilla L. )

No artificial colorants, preservatives…nothing unnatural.

Rose Geranium (Pelargonium capitatum x radens)

grapefruit, Pink (Citrus racemosa )

Lavender, Barreme (Lavandula angustifolia)

As for the waiting..I have mixed the above ingredients in a glass mason jar, I’m shaking it to mix it, and in the next two weeks it should all be melding together, blending evenly so at the end of the time period it should be Fabulous! I will update you all, then!

sources:

wikipedia

New Directions Aromatics