Aromatherapy Bath Salts

Essential Oil Bath Salts Enhance the healing benefits of a salt bath by adding essential oils. Select essential oils mixed with salt can relieve a host of ill, calm, detoxify and soothe.

Better than Plain Salt Choose the essential oil by the properties you want for your bath. Any can be combined with bath salts. Choose lavender for relaxation, chamomile or sleep, birch or peppermint for achy muscles.

Potent Detoxifier Salts help the body to heal by removing toxins. By detoxifying the tissues the muscles relax, the skin heals and you feel calm and relaxed.

Less Pain Essential oils with bath salts help chronic and painful skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis. They also help relive main and stiffness of osteoarthritis. The results were resorted for 80% of study participants.

All Salts are Not the Same

Sea Salt Sea salt is salt natural, organic mineral salts, which comprise the salt found in the seas and oceans. Natural sea salt is rich in trace minerals and electrolytes. It is important for nutrition and these minerals work directly on the skin as well to heal and to relives muscle tension and toxins from tissues.

Dendritic Salt Dendritic salt is commonly used in commercial bath salt preparations to prevent caking and extend shelf life. It holds scents well and dissolves easily. In spite of these apparent benefits, it is table salt, which is sodium chloride without the beneficial trace minerals and electrolytes. Also is it chemically altered chemically altered using slightly toxic ferrous cyanide. Although it is considered safe for synthetic fragrances, nothing like this should ever be used with essential oils, which may enable passing membranes. That is why in aromatherapy we never use any harmful, synthetic or chemical ingredients.

Dead Sea Salt Dead sea salt comes from the Dead Sea in Israel. It is unique in its mineral composition. Much more concentrated than sea salt. It is 33.7% salt – that is 8.6 times more than the ocean. It is so salty that it cannot support life. The mineral composition of dead sea salt is not only great than the ocean, but different. The ocean salt is 97% sodium chloride. Dead sea salt is very, very high in calcium, magnesium and potassium salts – the electrolytes. It is too concentrated to drink – a small amount is deadly. Used topically in a bath or scrub, the healing properties go to work to detoxify and rematerialize, balance, tone and heal. It is for this reason that people come from all over the world to bathe in the dead sea as a natural healing spa. The relief provided through detoxifying the tissues and relaxing the muscles makes this the premier healing salt.

Epsom Salt Epsom salt is magnesium salt. It comes form regular salt water with the table salt removed magnesium is a natural laxative and muscle relaxer. It also removes toxins from the muscles. It will sooth an aching back or tires limbs. It is widely available and inexpensive. Add some essential oils to relax the mind and relieve stress and you have a great bath.

Pickling Salt Pickling salt is pure table salt with no additives. It is also finer, so that it dissolves much better. You can get it at the grocery store.

European Spa Salt European spa salt is simply Mediterranean sea salt. It is similar to table salt, but is an organic sea salt with higher concentrations of beneficial electrolytes.

Solar Salt This attractive chucky grain salt is popular in aromatherapy salt jars. This is the same salt you buy for aquariums, so you certainly can soak in it. It takes a while to dissolve in warm water. Make sure whatever you buy is pure because coming from salt water lakes, it can contain pesticides. You never want something like that in any aromatherapy blend. The mineral content is like sea salt – natural and good, but for therapeutic baths we really prefer something stronger.

Hawaiian Red Salt This red salt gets its color from Hawaiian volcanic red clay. The red clay is rich in its own healing properties. Clay removes toxins and even infections. For this reason it is used for sore throats, wounds, and cold sores. Its antibacterial properties along with that of salt help heal cuts and sores. The red clay salt is also great for muscle injuries.

Icelandic Brine Salt From a mile deep under the earth in scalding hot subterranean pools, we get Icelandic Brine Salt. The temperature rises to over 300 degrees and yields a salt extremely rich in minerals yet with less than half of the normal amount of sodium chloride. This makes is less drying. The unique inclusion of silica creates a natural compound that nourishes and soothes the skin like no other. Silica leaves the skin renewed and silky and the hair and nail replenished. Silica fortifies bones, joints, hair, skin and nail for a stronger, healthier you. Treat skin problem with silica salt and the dry, red, irritated sin will be healed and soothed by the silica.

Black Sea Pink Salt This salt from the Black Sea, which is rich in coral reefs, contains large amounts of beneficial halophilic bacteria. The bacteria and the naturally high mineral content are remarkably healing for skin conditions, such as eczema and psoriasis. It is the bacteria that give the pink color. It relieves the pain of arthritis and rheumatism. It was used as an ancient’s youthful skin secret.

Conclusion Give yourself the gift of Aromatherapy bath salts. Sow yourself or others that you care.

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