The Amazing Qualities of Epsom Bath Salts
Besides making you feel wonderful and special, a warm bath with Scented Epsom salts will recharge your body with magnesium and sulfate, two compounds we need and are often lacking. Magnesium protects our heart, muscles and circulatory system and sulfate aids the nervous system. Absorbing Bath Salts is the best way to re saturate your body with these essential minerals.
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Nothing is as relaxing as a hot bath. Sure, it gets you clean, and gives you some “me” time, but did you know that by adding Epsom salts to your bath will soften your skin, could smooth out wrinkles and improve your body’s metabolic function?
Yep! Epsom bath salts are made from Magnesium Sulfate, two minerals that play an important part in how our bodies work.
How Epsom Salts Work
Magnesium is important in that regulates enzyme activity in your body, and it helps your bodily functions to run smoothly. Did you know that more than half of all Americans have a magnesium deficiency, which is believed to be a factor in all kinds of health problems? Sulfate is also important in the way in which your body works: Its job is in the formation of brain tissue and joint proteins, and it can strengthen the walls of the digestive tract.
Studies have shown that soaking in Epsom bath salts can help children who suffer from autism. They tend to be low in Sulfate. [source: ]
Epsom bath salts will also help to detoxify your body – something we all need these days with all of the “junk” we seem to soak up just walking around.
Soaking in bath salts is the recommended way to get these two compounds into as they are easily absorbed through the skin.
Luxury bath salts are easy to make at home.
Simple Epsom Salts for Your Bath Recipe
2 cups Epsom salts for your bath (you can find this at any grocery store in the pharmacy section) or order it from Amazon here
A few drops of essential oil
4 Tablespoons of Baking Soda
Mix all of the together in a mixing bowl. Adding about 6 to 8 drops of essential oil into the mix. Sometimes I like to add dried flowers to the mix.
Store in airtight containers. These make amazing inexpensive gifts. You can always include it in a gift basket with homemade soap.
Lavender Bath Salts
- Epsom salts
- 100% pure lavender essential oil (not fragrance)
- dried lavender
- vintage mason jars
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