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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 »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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I wish also, Jimmy Wee, that I would ever have just 5 minutes to soak in the tub.....
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I wish also, Jimmy Wee, that I would ever have just 5 minutes to soak in the tub.....
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