What could be more pleasant than to soak up after a hard day in warm water and forget about all the troubles? And it would be even better to be on the seashore ... But if it is far to get to it, then why not arrange sea ​​bath at home?

Recently, bath salts, as well as, have rapidly entered the cosmetic everyday life of many women. Today we will tell you how to make bath salt with your own hands and create a real cocktail from healthy oils, colors and active ingredients.

Sea bath salt has been used as far back as ancient Sumeria and ancient Egypt. Queen Cleopatra loved her very much. Besides that salt baths It's fun, but it's also very useful. Iodine, which is part of the salt, has an anti-inflammatory and disinfecting effect, has a positive effect on the functioning of the thyroid gland; bromine - relaxes and soothes. Depending on the oils and additives included in the finished product, salt acquires additional beneficial features.

How to make bath salt, and what ingredients are needed for this

The base is always salt. It can be marine, English or from the Dead Sea. The latter contains significantly more useful microelements than the usual marine one, but it costs more and is more difficult to get. Epsom salt is used for healing baths, it is present in the waters of mineral springs. You can use a mixture of the presented salts or take one in its pure form.

Knowing how to make bath salt, you can add your favorite flavors and ingredients.

Powdered milk, dried herbs, flower petals, fruit powder, and even pieces of dried fruit can be added to salt. These components are included in expensive salts for bathtubs presented in shop windows. Milk will give the skin softness, and herbs will give their beneficial properties to the water. Rose petals, lavender, hibiscus, calendula are very popular.

Optionally, bath salt can be flavored using (orange, lemon, grapefruit, lavender, etc.), perfumes, artificial or food (vanilla, mint) additives.

Natural salt can be white, with a gray tint, or even pink. Food coloring can be used to give a different color. Subsequently, the water in the bathroom will also be slightly stained with salt.

To make bath salt endowed medicinal properties, add various oils and extracts. Salt with the addition of extracts of lavender, mint, tanderine and lemon perfectly copes with fatigue, stress and excessive excitability nervous system.

Oil tea tree will help with chronic fatigue and fatigue, rose oil will relieve tension, tones the skin and accelerate the healing of wounds.

Salt with red orange or grapefruit oil is an excellent addition in the fight against cellulite. Lavender or rosemary oil will help with colds.

Do not forget about the beneficial properties of herbs. Ground can be added to salt Birch buds and leaves, they will be effective in inflammatory processes, and for skin diseases, it is better to prefer pharmacy chamomile. A good helper in the treatment of neuroses and menstrual disorders will be salt with oregano.

You can store ready-made salt in various containers. The contents will be visible in glass, but keeping such dishes in the bathroom can be unsafe, as they can easily break in a humid environment. Clear plastic containers are best for storage.

A handmade bath salt can be a great gift. Pack it in special plastic bottles(they are sold in stores for cosmetics self made). Decorate the top of the bottle with a ribbon or other decorative elements.

Another option is to pour salt into the bottle different colors layers. It will turn out a very beautiful and interesting effect!

Use small paper envelopes or rag bags to pack single servings. They can be of different colors, in accordance with the aromas of salt (for strawberry - a red envelope, for lavender - purple). Seal the envelopes, tie them beautifully with a ribbon and decorate with dried flowers. Original gift ready!

Here you will learn how to make a useful and fragrant salt for a bath for your child or as a gift for a baby's birthday.
The recipe is so simple that even a 4-year-old child can cope with the manufacture of such salt.

How to make DIY bath salt for kids. Video:

You will need:

1. 200g. coarse sea salt.
For newborns, take 500g. sea ​​salt to reduce the concentration.

2. Essential oils of lavender, tea tree and blue chamomile.

3. Glass jar suitable volume with a tight lid.

For baby's nightly bath the best salt bath salt with tea tree, lavender and blue chamomile.

These essential oils calm the child, help him fall asleep, strengthen the immune system.
And if wounds or irritations appear on the baby’s skin, these oils accelerate healing.

HOW TO MAKE BATH SALTS

1. Required amount Pour sea salt into the prepared jar.

2. Drop onto the salt already in the jar:
* 20 drops of lavender essential oil,
* 10 drops of tea tree essential oil,
* 10 drops of blue chamomile essential oil.

Do not be surprised that the chamomile is so blue.

3. Close the jar with a lid.

4. Turn on incendiary music.

5. Shake the jar thoroughly for 5-7 minutes for better mixing and distribution of essential oils in salt.

The blue color of chamomile oil will help you determine if dancing with a jar is enough. 😉

6. Remove the jar for 3 days in a dark, dry place, but periodically shake the salt.

After 3 days, the bath salt is ready for use.

HOW TO USE BATH SALTS

Shake bath salt before use.

To bathe a child in big bath dissolve 3-5 tbsp. bath salts.
To bathe a baby in a small baby bath, use 1-2 tbsp. salt.

Use this salt for your baths too.

Leave the children with someone you trust and enjoy moments of peace and inner happiness.

FLAVOR YOU BATHING!!!

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What a pleasure to take after a hard day hot bath With salt. And if this salt is made with your own hands, it is doubly pleasant. Our mester class with photos talks about 4 ways to make bath salts at home.

Method I. Pick and mix

Select salts

The main ingredient of bath salts is the English mineral salt, otherwise called Epsom salt (after the name of the place Epsom in England, where it was first mined); it is widely used as a cosmetic. But other salts can be added to it to enhance or change the effect on the skin, as well as for the aesthetic component - for example, small crystals of sea salt look very beautiful, and pink Himalayan salt, in addition to its spectacular color, is good because it adds a mixture of "mineral "hardness" - this is important for areas with "soft", salt-poor water.

You can not add oils at all, you can use only one, or you can create a mixture of them, like a mixture of salts. A pleasant aroma added to salt can help you relax or, conversely, focus. The popular floral combination of lavender, rose and lilac helps de-stress and relax, bringing a light, sunny feeling, while the rich aroma of eucalyptus, citrus and mint helps sharpen the senses and focus.

Mix your own combination of your favorite scents, but remember to add each oil one drop at a time as you work to find the right combination so you don't go wrong with the intensity and balance of the scent.

Dried herbs or petals are often added to bath salts to decorate the mixture and add a new twist to its aroma. Try adding a handful of rosemary, cumin or mint, whole or ground. Dried rose petals or lavender are just as good.

Your salt may be colorless, but its hue is another unique feature. You can choose any colors; usually they are combined with aroma (for example, for salt smelling of eucalyptus - green, for lavender - lilac). To color the salt, add a couple of drops of food coloring.

Method II. Sea bath salts

Take the ingredients

You will need 140 g of sea salt, 140 g of Epsom salt, one teaspoon of essential oil (or a mixture of them - how to mix the oils, see above), and, if desired, ground dry herbs.

Combine the ingredients and put in a jar

Mix both types of salt in a separate bowl, and then add the oil, trying to evenly distribute it throughout the mixture. Mix thoroughly, and then, if desired, add dye and pour salt into a jar with a tight-fitting lid (any salt absorbs moisture very well, which is usually a lot in the bathroom).

Method III. Bath salt with baking soda

Measure out the ingredients

You will need 140 g Epsom salts, 140 g. baking soda, two tablespoons of liquid glycerin and essential oil. You can also add a handful of dried herbs or petals (whole or chopped).

Mix and put in a jar

Pour soda into salt, and then pour in glycerin and mix thoroughly. Add oil, as well as herbs or petals.

Transfer the mixture to a jar with a ground-in lid and add 2-3 tablespoons to the bath with hot water whenever you want.

As you probably know, bath bombs come in white and dyed. And in order to make “colored” bombs, you first need to color the sea salt. Or just make yourself a bath salt with the smell and color you want.

So, for painting we need:

Sea salt (coarse)
- distilled water
- dye (liquid or dry, food or cosmetic)
- fragrance (optional)
- two containers for mixing salt and diluting the dye (I took a jar and a glass)
- a stick for stirring (I have a stick for sushi)

Pour salt into a tall jar, about halfway. If you pour more, then with stirring it will spill out, so up to half is perfect option, developed experimentally

I pour literally 2-3 ml of distilled water into a glass. There I also drip a few drops of liquid dye (but you can also take dry water-soluble pigments) until you get desired color and mix. If you use dry pigments, then you need to mix everything very, very carefully. I want to flavor my future bombs with perfume, so here I add a few drops of Sea Breeze fragrance. If you're making essential oil bombs, don't add anything else at this stage.

When we have a uniformly colored water, pour it into the salt.

And now we arm ourselves with a stick or spatula and begin to actively mix the salt until it is evenly colored.

Drying is the last step in making salt! It is advisable to pour the salt onto a flat tray or piece of paper and leave it in a dry place overnight (or until completely dry).

As a result, we get this beauty!

Note. If you want to make bath salt, you can use another recipe: take 2-3 tables for 500 grams of salt. spoons of base oils, 15-20 drops of essential oils and mix it all well. For coloring, a few drops of liquid dye are enough directly into the salt (it is already with oils and additional liquids are not needed) or a few drops of dry pigment diluted in glycerin. key point is a good kneading and drying of the salt.

Addition. It's been over a year since I wrote this tutorial, and in that time I've tried several other ways to color the salt. In particular, you can take not only coarse, but already ground salt, and liquid dye does not have to be diluted with water, you can drip a few drops of dye directly into a container with salt. With this staining, the salt will dry much faster.

About where to buy ingredients, for example, kosm. dye, ask in PM.

I hope this small MK will be able to help those interested in their search, and maybe someone will want to try to make colored salt on one's own. If there are questions, please ask. If there are no questions, then see you in the next lesson, in which I will tell you how to make geysers, I hope you will be interested.

*Start off water procedures better with cleansing the skin with a scrub or salt soap.
*Prepare a bath with sea ​​salts(natural natural or with the addition of essential oils, plant extracts).
*Concentration of salts per bath - from 100 g to 1 kg. To obtain a cosmetic or therapeutic effect, the dose of salts per bath does not exceed 100-300g. To obtain therapeutic concentrations - a dose of salts - up to 1 kg per bath.
* You need to take baths at a water temperature of up to 35-39 degrees for 10-20 minutes every day or every other day with a course of 10-15 procedures. Repeated courses are recommended in 2-3 months.

If you take a bath in the morning, then we are talking about a tonic bath. The water temperature should be 35-36 C; the duration of the procedure is 10-15 minutes. At the same time, the body receives a charge of vivacity.
Evening baths, which have a relaxing effect, should preferably be taken 2-3 hours before bedtime. In this case, the water temperature should be 37-39 C. The duration of the procedure is 15-20 minutes.

Do I need to wash off the salt after a bath?

The final stage of the procedure - rinsing fresh water. This can be done right away. With therapeutic baths, it will be better if you do this after a mandatory 40-60 minute rest in bed.
Then it is necessary to restore the slightly acidic environment of the skin, restore the pH using a cream or body milk.

How do salt baths have a rejuvenating effect, because, it would seem, salt dries out the skin?

Salt irritates the skin, causing a rush of blood and increasing the division of epidermal cells. This speeds up the regeneration of damaged skin.
It has a positive effect on skin tone and can be used in cosmetology.
Trace elements are catalysts for many biochemical reactions that take place in the body. They support the hydroelectrolytic balance of the body, normalizing the acid-base balance in the fluid environments of the body. The normal acid-base balance of the body means to live without getting sick.

What are the indications for hydrotherapy?

1. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system (muscles, tendons, joints).
2. Diseases of the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system (chronic radiculitis, neuralgia).
3. Diseases of the digestive system (functional diseases of the stomach, intestines, chronic gastritis, colitis, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, diseases of the liver and gallbladder).
4. Metabolic diseases and endocrine pathology (gout, impaired water-salt metabolism, obesity, mild to moderate diabetes mellitus without acidosis)
5. Diseases of the urinary tract (urolithiasis, pyelitis, cystitis).
6. Skin diseases: all itchy dermatoses, psoriasis, seborrhea, exudative diathesis, neurodermatitis, eczema.
7. Chronic professional and domestic salt poisoning heavy metals(mercury, lead), toxic substances, as well as after prolonged use of antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals.
8. Rehabilitation (restoration of functions) of the body after illnesses.
9. Disease prevention and activation of the body's immune defenses.

How to use essential oils while taking a bath?

Since essential oils have an exceptional penetrating ability, even a short exposure to aromatic plant substances on human skin allows you to quickly put it in order, and at the same time the whole body.
Salts perfectly absorb aromatic essences and oils and slowly release them, enriching them with beneficial ions.
Attention: adding essential oils to the bath, you must first dissolve them in milk or salt. If pure essential oil gets on the skin, blot it with a cotton swab dipped in vegetable oil(Essential oils do not dissolve in water.)
For taking Baths, you can prepare the necessary mixtures yourself or use those that we have created for you.

What do you need to know about restrictions?

Do not forget about the main rules: the water in the bath should reach the bather to the chest; the water temperature should not exceed 39 degrees, as this can put a serious strain on the heart and blood vessels.
In addition, there are a number of contraindications for health reasons:
1. All diseases are in the acute stage.
2. Thrombosis, embolism.
3. Hypertension 2 and 3 stages.
4. Malignant neoplasms.
5. Tuberculous process.
6. All infectious diseases.
7. Pregnancy