4 Ingredient Bath Salt Recipe

Give yourself the gift of relaxation with this amazing lavender rose bath salt recipe. Filled with real dried roses, pure lavender essential oil, and Epsom salt – this bath salt will be sure to help you unwind.

The combination of the ingredients used in this homemade lavender rose bath salt recipe is the perfect trio for relaxation. Make some bath salts, grab your favorite book, and take an amazing bath.

How to Make a Bath Salt Recipe

What You Need:

• Epsom Salt
• Sweet Almond Oil
• Dried Rose Buds (optional)
• Dried Rose Petals (optional)
• Lavender Essential Oil
• Rose Essential Oil

Directions:

1. Add the Epsom salt to a clean bowl.
2. Add the sweet almond oil + essential oils.
3. Mix the Epsom salt and oils until the Epsom salt has been covered in oil.
4. Grind the dried flowers in a mortar and pestle until they become fine, you do not want any chunks.
5. If using dried flowers, add those in mix.

Notes:

If you do not want dried roses in your bath you could simply take those out of the recipe and substitute another 5 drops of rose essential oil.

Benefits of Bath Salts

Rose Petals + Buds:

These beautiful flowers offer many benefits, especially when they are dried. Roses are known to help with stress relief, and headaches, and are oftentimes used as a natural sleep aid due to their relaxing properties. Also, who doesn’t want to take a dried rose petal bath?

Lavender Essential Oil:

We all know lavender as the queen of relaxation, right? Lavender essential oil is a pure condensed form of lavender that is so uniquely versatile. This oil is oftentimes used to help treat anxiety, depression, and overall mood. Lavender is a go-to oil in our house, whether it is diffused or diluted in a bath soak.

According to this article, Lavender essential oil can help with easing anxiety and insomnia.

Epsom Salt:

Epsom salt is essentially magnesium flakes. Magnesium is used primarily for relaxation, mentally and physically. Epsom salt is great for all-over muscle relaxation when used in a bath. Athletes often times soak in Epsom salt baths to recover quickly from an intense workout. A homemade bath soak for sore muscles is the perfect way to finish off a workout!

This article states that Epsom salt is beneficial if you deal with stress, muscle pain, and inflammation.

Bath Salt Recipe vs. Bath Bombs Recipe

There are a few similarities and differences when it comes to choosing if you want to use a bath soak or bath bomb in your bath. The main similarity is that both bath salts and bath bombs use epsom salt. However, the main difference is, that a bath salt recipe is all epsom salt whereas a bath bomb only has a small amount of epsom salt.

Bath bombs are fun to use in the bath, I have an Herbal Bath Bomb recipe on my blog you can check out if you’re interested in making your own. There are a lot of added extra ingredients in a bath bomb to make it fizz + float.

A bath salt recipe is more practical if you’re looking to ease your muscles or any aches and pains you may have.

How to Use Bath Salts

Using a bath soak in your bath is easy.

• Fill up the bathtub with warm water
• Add 2 tablespoons of your bath salt recipe
• swirl the bath soak into the warm water with your hand until the epsom salt dissolves
• get in and enjoy!

Want to make more relaxing recipes? Look at these!

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