Making Bath Salts

Making bath salts is great to keep for yourself or to give as gifts. Plus with a little creative packaging you can start your own bath salt store.

With bath salts easily ranging from $10-$15 dollars for a jar who wouldn’t want to make their very own batch of bath salts in the comfort of their own home.

Basic bath salt ingredients:

Salt – This can be a combination of salts or just one salt alone. Most people prefer to use a combination because it adds a little something to the texture and appearance of your homemade bath salts.

So what kind of salts should you use?

Epsom Salt

Sea Salt

Natural Dead Sea Salt

Hawaiian Red Alaea Sea Salt

Bolivian Rose Mountain Salt

Baking Soda – helps make your skin softer

Coloring and Fragrance – This is optional but most people like their bath salts to look pretty and smell good.

Natural Moisturizer’s – Adding natural moisturizes to your bath salts is optional as well but I think that once you make a batch with moisturizers in it you will never skip this step again.

So what moisturizer’s should you include?

Grapeseed oil – Makes your skin feel silky and smooth

Avocado Oil – known for it ability to give your skin added nourishment

Apricot Oil – This is great if you tend to have sensitive skin

Good old fashioned Olive Oil – very gentle on your skin

Basic Bath Salt Recipe:

3 Cups Of Salt – This can be any combination of salt that you would like it to be. I generally make sure that I have at least one cup of Epsom salt and then use one or two more kinds of salt to equal three cups of salt.

1/2 – 3/4 cup of Baking Soda

1 Cup of your Natural Moisturizing Oil – Again you can pick whichever moisturizer suits your needs or none at all. This step is optional.

Fragrance and Coloring of your choice – For both of these it is recommended that you start out with just a few drops and increase it until you are satisfied with the way it smells and the color it is.

Mix it all together and put it in an airtight jar. Let it sit for a few days before you use it.

Be creative and experiment with this recipe. Part of the allure of bath salts it that they are pretty to look at and smell heavenly.

If you should decide you would like to sell your homemade bath salts online feel free to sign up for my free mini course on how to sell crafts online.