Hi,
Tis the season of cold weather and shoveling, soreness and pulled muscles. Once we come in from the cold and get too warm, we can also get itchy. This is a bath blend for both. It's meant to be mixed up for a single bath but can be made ahead - you may also add oatmeal to this, (see below) and use a muslin tie bag, so the oatmeal can work but doesn't get all over the tub.
The bags come in two sizes, 3x5 and 4x6 - I use the 3x5 for herbs and potpourris and hang them in our closets and place them in our drawers. I use the larger size which is 25 cents a bag, for the bath blends, as you can fit a bit more in them. I buy these from www.elementsbathandbeauty.com and they have great service and good buys.
The epsom salt is great for aches and pains, as well as being good for detoxifying your skin, as is the sea salt and baking soda. The powdered milk (note, this can all be bought in the grocery store!), is good for your skin, as for keeping it soft and nice. Cleopatra used to take cream baths, but we're going to the milk instead as cream's a bit more expensive, though I'd use goats milk powder as I'm allergic to milk, so there are things that you can substitute.
Recipe:
Bath Salts for Aches and Itches
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup powdered milk
1 cup epsom salt
1 cup sea salt
You can add essential oils to this blend, after you have it mixed up. For aches, eucalyptus (var., globulus), patchouli, sandalwood or cypress (blue). Just a few drops is enough, as the salts will do most of it.
This is enough for one bath, which you will mix and pour under the running water. If you'd like to make more, double-triple or even more can be made at a time, but container it in a glass jar, or several, for later use or gifts.
You can also put this in gift bags, like the larger muslin bags, with the drawstrings, in which case I would add also to the blend, 1 cup of oatmeal, which is great for your skin in general as well as itching.
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I didn't know you were pregnant. I guess if I was pregnant, I wouldn't let anyone walk on me either. Maybe give it a try after the baby is born.
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Tab - leave out the essential oils as you're pregnant. The rest will be good for you. :) Congrats, by the way!
Rosa - Milk and oatmeal baths, especially with epsom salts are so good in desert weather :)
Funny Guy, if I laid down on the floor and someone walked on me, who'd get me up afterwards - who gets "you" up afterwards? ROFL
Melissa J. - I've made the tea baths but I use loose tea and mix my blends in the bags as well. I drink the tea bagged green teas, so good, with honey! Yum!
Last night I made about 20 lipbalms, and 9 solid perfumes, they're all good for NOW, when it's cold out and also they're natural. The lipbalms I used one of the recipes from here (somewhere!) and they came out great - added a few drops of peppermint essential oil and boy, do they smell nice!
The perfumes are Champaca (India) and a little Ylang-Ylang essential oil (Indonesia), which just sweetened it up a teeny bit. Very light scent as this distill of Champaca is light, though I have part of the next one and it's a totally different scent, as each years are.
Vis - When Mark was attempting to work at his last job, and he wasn't able to do it, he took an aromatherapy stone with him and a little bottle of peppermint essential oil, to help him stay awake. It was funny as the man next to him was also a college student and was exhausted all the time, and the oil wafted over to him and helped him stay awake as well! I ended up giving him his own stone and his own bottle of peppermint for at home too.
Chamomile baths? I love 'em. I actually just picked up some chamomile herb powder, along with some pink rose powder - for making body powders as chamomile is nice for the skin too, though I keep the tea for drinking. Once in awhile I'll boil some chamomile tea and use it in the water phase of a lotion and it's really nice.
But hopefully this will help get my skin back to being soft again. I feel like a lizard.
By the way Marilyn, I featured this on Relaxation, Meditation, Oils, and Stress Reducers.
Marilyn, since you asked for grammatical help, I got a bit of a chuckle out of "muslim" bags -- and wonder if, unlike muslin bags, these are used by Islamic bathers. LOL
Aloha,
Carol
Julie, thank you! That's funny you say that about moving and your skin. When we moved to Florida, the same thing happened to me. Different water? Bad water? I don't know but it did a number on my skin. I had an Rx as well, but once we moved back home, everything reversed and my skin is ok now. Weird.
There are also bath bags, that you fill and one side is open and you iron it shut on one side - those work well too, but the musliN bags are also good in the shower, as you can just tie them onto the shower head and still get the benefits. The other bags I've gotten at the same place that I listed above. They're also very reasonable.
Thanks to all of you!