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Homemade Detox Baths
Baths are wonderfully healing, and it is easy to make your own homemade, detox baths.
Hot water draws toxins out of the body to the skin’s surface, and while the water cools it pulls toxins from the skin, according to Naturopath Dr. Hazel Parcells. Epsom salts augment this detoxification by causing you to sweat. Other salts—all highly alkaline and cleansing—used in baths include sea salt, baking soda, clay, and Dead Sea salts.
Basic Salt Soak Bath Formula
Minerals and salts make the bath water feel silky and leave your skin cleansed and soft.
1 cup sea salts
2 cups baking soda
1 cup Epsom salts
1 to 2 tablespoons glycerin per bath
Combine the sea salts, baking soda, and Epsom salts in a bowl. Stir to blend. Pour 1/4 cup or so into the bath while the tub is filling. Add 1 to 2 tablespoons glycerin to keep your skin from drying out (more for dry skin, less for oily skin) and essential oils of choice.
Preparation time: 2 to 3 minutes
Shelf life: Indefinite
Storage: Glass jar with a screw top
Caution: Do not take hot baths and salt baths (including Epsom salt baths) if you have heart trouble, high blood pressure, or are diabetic.
MORE USES FOR EPSOM SALTS
Use epsom salts in your body scrub
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add your comment »Neat, where do I get glycerin and Epsom salt from, though....
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E salts very helpful when i feel am getting a cold..a good soak last thing at night...drink plenty water and i seem to wake so much better......also,when i had a nasty abscess 2 years ago ,i had e,salt bath every other night,which seemed to me to aid healing..(.maybe diabetics etc have to be careful as the HEAT from this bath can be intense?)
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this sounds so good! Thank you so much for posting this! i have been wanting to try this for a while but between being out of the country for 4 months and being busy and kind of lazy since i've been back, I haven't tried it. But now I just came back from an hour and a half of soccer practice and my muscles are ACHING me so badly, especially since I also did pilates yesterday for the first time. I'm going to go try it now! Yaay! :-) I hope I will be able to do this more often!!!
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Sounds great,and I am going to try it!! Thanks
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It's soothing and relaxing.
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I am slightly hypothyroid and I take Armour thyroid for it. Someone here said that people with thyroid conditions should not do these baths. Why?
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Isabel, your cedar bath sounds wonderful. I don't have any cedar trees near me. Can I use pine?
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My grandmother was a believer in epsom salts for soooo many things. Besides a bath, foot soak, soak for a sprain ankle, she'd go out every spring and toss some around her camillas, rhodadendrons and azaleas. They were huge, full of flowers, healthy and startling! We learned to listen to a woman that practiced what she preached.
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Janet Hackman, not sure, but you might check with Dr. Mercola or naturalnews.com and they can tell you. However, I do know that no one, especially diabetics, should NEVER stay in a zacuzzi tub longer than 15 min.
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