Bath Salts for Aromatherapy
The Essential Bath Salt Essential oils with bath salts give you more relaxation, more soothing pain relieve and make for a truly healing experience.
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.
More About Specific Salts
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 often used in bath preparations and may be recommended by some. It holds scents well and dissolves quickly in water. In spite of these characteristics, it is a chemically altered form of ordinary, non-organic table salt. It has been altered with slightly toxic ferrous cyanide. Although it is claimed that the ferrous cyanide does not leach and it is not plasma permeable, this is obviously not a healthy base salt to use. For aromatherapy we always use only natural and healthy products.
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 comes from salt water that has had the sodium chloride removed. This leaves a high concentration of magnesium, which is soothing to the muscles – a natural relaxant. It detoxifies by pulling lactic acid from the body. It is inexpensive and you can get it in most local pharmacy, supercenters and supermarkets.
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 Mediterranean sea salt is a great sea salt, with a healthy compliment of naturally occurring trace minerals. . It is the only thing you should use in the kitchen. As a bath salt, it has the necessary mineral composition, but a stronger one is preferred..
Solar Salt This very coarse grain salt has a pretty look that is favored in spa salts. Don’t let the look fool you. This salt is sold for use in aquariums. It takes a while to dissolve in warm water and because it comes from salt water lakes, it can contain pesticides. It also has enough mineral content for fish, but not enough really for great therapeutic value. It can be mixed with finer salts to make them prettier.
Hawaiian Red Salt Hawaiian Red Salt, called Alaea sea salt, contains volcanic red clay. The red clay has healing properties of its own. The clay draws out toxins and helps heal cuts, wounds, and treats infections such as sore throats and infections. It is also healing to muscle strains.
Icelandic Brine Salt Icelandic Brine Salt is taken from a steaming hot (plus 300 degrees subterranean pool. This pool is a mile below the surface of Iceland. It has 60% less sodium chloride than regular salts, and is rich in silica. Silica is essential for bone, joints, hair and nails. It also has a healthy composition of trace minerals. Icelandic Brine Salt dissolves easily in water and due to the low sodium chloride and to the silica present, it makes the skin super smooth and silky. It is great for dry, itchy or flakey skin.
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 Aromatherapy bath salts make a wonderful healing gift for yourself or others.
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