VIDEO: Bath salts with lavender
Incidentally, with the salt in the water, you can experience a noble spa at home, the exquisite mineral baths and hot springs often only work with salt!
What a bath salt is made of and how it works
- A salt for the bathtub consists primarily of salt. Theoretically, you could just use normal table salt, but sea salt is usually used for bath salt, which is said to have some additional minerals and which skin shouldn't dry out like table salt.
- The other ingredients that you can add to your personal bath additive serve to re-oil: milk powder up to the same amount as coarse sea salt, which is what makes it Bath water also elegantly milky, or a few milliliters of different oils, these can be essential oils with certain effects, but also simple jojoba oil or Soybean oil.
- These three components form the basic recipe, which you can design in proportion as you wish. The more milk powder or oil you use, the creamier your skin will feel after the bath. A lavishly fortified salt of this type, however, does not last forever and should be kept in the refrigerator.
- Such a bath salt unfolds its effect by influencing the molecular structure of the bathing water. You notice that because your body feels very light in the water - as it is also known from the salt seas of the earth.
- But it also has other consequences: Since a lot of salt is dissolved in the water, only a little salt is withdrawn from our body through the skin when we bathe. This not only results in a balanced salt balance, but is also said to be able to reduce the formation of wrinkles on the skin.
- Then the salts can be enriched with various ingredients that produce certain effects. Phosphate salts should z. B. act like a peeling and make the surface of the skin supple, soda in bath additives is said to work against acidification.
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Make a lavender bath salt
- To make your own lavender salt, in addition to the basic recipe above, you will of course need lavender. You can choose to simply add a few tablespoons of dried leaves or flowers that you might get from the plant in your garden, or to use lavender oil; of course you can do both.
- You simply prepare the desired amount of salt according to the above basic recipe, crumble the flowers and leaves as small as possible and mix them in well, the oil is simply stirred in. Your new bath additive will then be tightly sealed and allowed to sit through for a day or two.
- You can then make your new bath additive really chic by coloring it. Use food coloring if you want to create a kind of purple to match the plant, in blue and red. You can find this color in the supermarket among the baking ingredients.
- You now dissolve a little salt in a little lukewarm water, add the color until the tone is right, and mix your salt color with the dry salt. The salt must be slightly moistened so that the color can spread, but it should not get very wet.
- Because after this procedure, the salt should be dried again as well as possible, so it has a longer shelf life. You can let this happen in the storage container, because you leave it open and shake it occasionally, you can also dry the salt in the oven at around 50 degrees.
The famous Provence plant isn't the only herb to mix into your salt, of course. You can also create wonderful salts with rose oil and / or rose petals, lemon, calendula, menthol, ginkgo and many other herbs.
