Some bath salt recipes can get complicated and contain several more ingredients than your basic, simple recipe. To start out with, if you’re a beginner, choose a basic recipe. Almost every soapmaker I know who is hooked on this hobby has their own opinion on how they like their salts. Some prefer a finer grade of salts, while others prefer more coarse salts. To each their own and in this hobby industry, that’s ok and acceptable! However, before you can know for sure what style of bath salt you prefer, you have to make a few batches. To do that, you need to start out with the basic recipe.
There are a few essentials to making bath salt. The first is your essential tools, the second is your essential ingredients and the third is the basic recipe. These essential lists are actually pretty short.
Essential Tools:
- Large bowl
- Large spoon
- Measuring cups (preferably at least a 2 cup size)
- Something to store your salts in (preferably air tight)
- Your ingredients
Essential Ingredients:
- Salt (preferably coarse and fine salts)
- Soap safe fragrance
- Soap safe dye
Basic Recipe:
- 1 cup rock salt
- 2 cups sea salt
- drops of dye
- 10 to 15 drops of fragrance
Pour both salts into a large bowl and mix well. Pour your dye drops into the salt until you get the desired color you want and stir until all the salt is colored. Be sure to scrap the very bottom of the bowl often. If you don’t you could end up with plain white salt when you pour it into your packaging.
Once you have the desired color, add your fragrance drops. Mix the salt again very thoroughly, making sure to scrape the bottom of the bowl often.
When it’s all well mixed, pour into your packaging. Use 2–3 Tbsp of salt per hot bath.
~*Important Notes*~
~*Women who are pregnant, especially in their last trimester, should not use Bath salt.~*
~*People with high blood pressure or adema (swelling) should not use bath salts as well.~*
~*If you are giving, selling or donating bath salts, either individually or in a basket you really should include this warning somewhere in the packaging.~*
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