DIY Aromatherapy Floral Bath Salt Recipe
Bath salts are a wonderful way to detoxify, cleanse and soothe your skin and muscles. Adding essential oils is a great way to experience the therapeutic benefits of both the salts and the essential oils.
A DIY Bath Salt station is a fun and beautiful addition to events like showers, client appreciation events, employee wellness events and more.
For maximum benefit and relaxation, you can use the bath salt ingredients and recipe below. But for a quick hack, you can add empty essential oil bottles to your big bag of Epsom salts, let them sit for a day or so and the salts will absorb all the remnant oils from the bottles and will be ready to go when you are.
It is important to mix your oils before adding them to the bath or they will sit on top of the water and depending on the oil may irritate your skin (like peppermint and eucalyptus).
Here is a list of ingredients in our recipe and their benefits:
Himalayan Sea Salt: A natural detoxifier stimulates stress relieving hormones and helps to reduce the signs of aging.
Dead Sea Salt: Are rich in over 20 minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, and bromide, which can help improve skin health. They promote muscle relaxation, ease sore tired muscles, stimulates blood circulation, rejuvenates, and detoxifies the skin, helping to lessen the appearance of wrinkles and calm irritation and redness.
Epsom Salts: Magnesium sulphate helps reduce swelling and muscle tension and also promotes a restful sleep.
Baking soda – Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, provides a naturally alkaline substance known to remove toxins, soften skin and leave it feeling silky soft.
Dried flowers – dried flowers add a beautiful touch to your mixture and like with essential oils their unique properties provide numerous therapeutic benefits for the mind, body, and spirit. For example,
- Rose buds & petals - relaxes your body and rejuvenate your skin.
- Calendula – soothing and healing, especially for those with dry skin. It also helps to reduce redness, itching and topical inflammation.
- Lavender – calms mind, soothes skin, improves sleep, enhances mood, and can minimize pain.
Essential oil – Essential oils are a wonderful addition to a bath, because their therapeutic benefits are easily absorbed by the skin. Here are a few essential oils that would be lovely to add to your bath and find more specific mixtures below the instructions.
- Relaxation & stress relief – lavender, jasmine, patchouli, chamomile, bergamot, orange, ylang ylang
- Grounding & balancing – patchouli, cedarwood, vetiver eucalyptus, vetiver, frankincense, myrrh, cypress, ylang ylang, spruce, chamomile, fir, and petitgrain
- Improve sleep – lavender, cedarwood, chamomile, ylang ylang, vetiver, sandalwood
- Skin health – tea tree, geranium, rose, lavender, frankincense, jasmine, chamomile
- Soothe aches & pains – peppermint, lavender, helichrysum, rosemary, lemongrass, eucalyptus, marjoram, cypress, and juniper
- Circulation – grapefruit, lemongrass, cypress, eucalyptus, juniper, lavender, coriander, and neroli
- Respiratory relief – eucalyptus, rosemary, peppermint, fir, black spruce
Bath Salt Recipe
- 2 Cup Course Epsom Salt
- 1 Cup Fine Himalayan Sea Salt
- 1 Cup Course Dead Sea Salt
- ½ cup baking soda
- 2 TBS fractionated coconut oil
- 20-25 drops of EO
- ¼-1/2 cup of Dried Flowers
Small Container – 1x Use
- 2 TBS Course Epsom Salt
- 1 TBS Fine Himalayan Sea Salt
- 1 TBS Course Dead Sea Salt
- 1 Tsp baking soda
- 2 Tsp Fractionated coconut oil
- 5-8 drops of essential oil
- 2-3 TBS dried flowers
Instructions
Step 1: Add everything but the coconut oil and essential oils into a large glass bowl and mix well.
Step 2: In a small glass bowl, mix 2 tablespoons Fractionated Coconut Oil or another mild oil of your choice with up to 25 drops of essential oil.
Step 3: Add the oil blend to the large bowl with the salts and mix well. Some ideas for essential oil mixtures are listed below the instructions.
Step 4: Add 1/2 cup dried flowers and mix well. You may choose a single flower or a combination of flowers.
Step 5: Scoop into a small container, like a drawstring pouch or glass jar.
Step 6: Use your bath salts in the bath. Depending on the size of your tub, use about 1/4 to 1/2 cup of this salt blend per bath.
How to use floral bath salts
The flowers will be a lovely and relaxing addition to the bath, but you’ll want to gather them up with a strainer and discard them before draining the bath water.
Another option is to put the floral bath salts in a cotton muslin bag and then hang the muslin bag from the spout so that the hot water hits the bag as it fills the tub. The mixture will dissolve and impart the properties to the water. After the tub fills, you can also add the bag to the tub water. If you use this method, please note the bags are reusable, simply launder the bags in between uses.
When you’re done with your bath, be careful getting out of the tub. The oil can make the tub a bit slippery.
Pat your skin dry with soft absorbent towel.
Essential Oil Mixtures
Relaxation & stress relief
12 drops eucalyptus essential oil + 12 drops spearmint essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil + 8 drops jasmine essential oil + 8 drops orange essential oil
8 drops patchouli essential oil + 8 drops lavender essential oil + 8 drops cedarwood essential oil
Grounding & balancing
5 drops patchouli essential oil + 10 drops cypress essential oil + 10 drops sandalwood essential oil
8 drops spruce (or fir) essential oil + 8 drops eucalyptus essential oil + 8 drops cedarwood essential oil
Improve sleep
12 drops lavender essential oil + 12 drops cedarwood essential oil
10 drops patchouli essential oil + 15 drops sandalwood essential oil
12 drops lavender essential oil+ 6 drops ylang ylang essential oil+ 6 drops orange essential oil
12 drops lavender essential oil + 6 drops geranium essential oil + 6 drops chamomile essential oil
Skin health
12 drops geranium essential oil + 12 drops frankincense essential oil
20 drops rose essential oil + 5 drops sandalwood essential oil
8 drops lavender essential oil + 8 drops geranium essential oil + 8 drops chamomile essential oil
Soothe aches & pains
10 drops peppermint essential oil + 10 drops lavender essential oil + 5 drops helichrysum essential oil
8 drops eucalyptus essential oil + 8 drops lemongrass essential oil + 8 drops cypress essential oil
Circulation
8 drops cypress essential oil + 8 drops juniper berry essential oil + 8 drops eucalyptus essential oil
12 drops grapefruit essential oil + 12 drops lemongrass essential oil
8 drops neroli essential oil + 8 drops lavender essential oil + 8 drops cypress essential oil
Respiratory relief
10 drops eucalyptus essential oil + 10 drops cypress essential oil + 5 drops rosemary essential oil
Please feel free to reach out to me for more information if you are interested in giving an Aromatherapy Floral Bath Salt mix as a gift or scheduling a lovely workshop experience for friends or clients in the Los Angeles area.