homemade bath salts

My big girl recently received a book {The Girls' Spa Book by Mary and Jessica Wallace} about homemade spa and bath goodies.  She quickly marked several pages of relaxing bath goodies that she wanted to make over Spring Break.  After a quick trip to the store to gather some ingredients, we begun our little test kitchen.  

The first item on her list was Bath Salts.  I wondered just how complicated some of these recipes might get but I was pleasantly surprised at how easy the recipes were to make.  The ingredients for the Bath Salts were simple.  My girls enjoyed picking out food flavorings to make their salts smell.  They picked lemon extract, mint extract and strawberry extract for their fragrances.  After some measuring, dumping, squeezing and mixing, the bath salts were complete.  After trying them out in their evening bath, the bath salts got 3 thumbs up from my girls.

Homemade Bath Salts Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups Epsom salts

1/2 cup sea salt

1 cup baking soda

food color

food flavoring (extracts work perfectly) for fragrance

be sure to have a few jars with lids ready for layering and storing your bath salts

STEP 1: Mix Epsom and sea salts with baking soda in a bowl

STEP 2:  Divide the mixture into three equal portions.  Add a few drops of food coloring and scent to the  amounts of the mixture.  Mix and stir well.

STEP 3: Pour or spoon mixture into a jar (or jars).  Layer different colors for a colorful mixture.

USE IN THE BATH:

Add about 1/2 cup to your bath water or use 1/2 cup in a basin of warm water for a relaxing foot soak.