DIY Bath Salts and Sugar Scrub
October 22, 2009 by Michelle Smith
Filed under Bath & Body
It’s easy to make homemade spa-quality bath products with ingredients that you have around the house. Pick up some essential oils (a small bottle goes a very long way) and add them to inexpensive ingredients like Sea Salt, Espom Salt (I get mine at the Dollar Store), put them in a pretty glass jar and you’ve got a beauty treatment for a fraction of what it would cost at the store, plus you can tailor the scent to your particular taste.
Bath Salts
2 cups Sea Salt
2 cups Epsom Salt
15-17 drops essential oil of your choice (I use lavender or eucalyptus)
food coloring, optional color of your choice
In a bowl, stir together your salts, essential oil, and food coloring. Mix well, then store in a sealed container. To use, scoop 1/8 of a cup of salt and add to bathwater as the tub fills.
Unsure what essential oils to use? How about….
*4 drops each of Lemon, Lime, Bergamot, and Orange
*6 drops Bergamot, 4 drops Geranium, 4 drops Rose, and 3 drops Sandalwood
*4 drops each Lavender, Orange, Cinnamon, and Clove
It’s easy to make body scrubs, too. Start with a good moisturizing body lotion, I like one with a shea butter base. You can find a Coffee Scrub recipe here.
Sugar Scrub
*1/3 cup Raw Sugar
*1/3 cup Shea Butter moisturizer
Stir sugar into the moisturizer then smooth into your skin. I do this while standing in the shower, with the water off, to avoid a mess. Pay particular attention to areas like your elbows, kneels, or heels. Rinse scrub off, then reapply sugar-less moisturizer when you get out of the shower.
Image credit: Michelle Smith
