Bath Salts - make your own
Either for yourself or that perfectly simple handmade gift - for young or old. Making at childrens birthdays, gifts for your bookclub mates, or your favourite aunts. Maybe they will be looking forward to your gift every year.
A few suggestions:
You can add flowers/botanicals to the mix before bottling and then tie a sprig with jute around the lid. Think lavender or rosemary to keep it easy and accessible.
collect your kitchen jars, or ikea does have inexpensive jars that can be reused.
keep scents simple - try citrus and pine scents for an uplifting blend; and floral scents for the soothing relaxing bathing experience. Create your own blends.
attach tag with well wishes and instruction for use
WHAT YOU NEED
1kg epsom salts
500g magnesium flakes OR celtic sea salt
20 drops essential oil - combination suggestions:
for soothing muscles use rosemary, wintergreen, clary sage, sandalwood, ginger or frankincense or a combination that you enjoy totalling 20 drops.
for slowing down and stress relief use lavender, roman camomile, vetiver, cedar wood, geranium or sandalwood or a combination that you enjoy.
Add rosemary sprigs or rose petals/lavender
WHAT TO DO
Mix well in a large bowl and decant into jars
HOW TO USE
Add at least 1 cup into a bath and soak for 40 minutes.
The first 20 minutes is detoxifying, the second is the absorption of minerals.