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Homemade Detox Baths

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Homemade Detox Baths
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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

13 uses of epsom salts

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reading this article made me very interested in trying out this bath but i have no idea where to get glycerin or epsom salts? and sea salt is very expensive, at least where i live, to use in a bath...

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have used E salt a lot over the years so will like to see how this bath works....am wondering about the heart people not doing it comment though.....why is that?

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Sabrina E.

That would be a good idea to make, but those things aren't normal everyday ingredients. Epsom salts? Never heard of them.

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Megan S.

Neat, where do I get glycerin and Epsom salt from, though....

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