Natural Cosmetics Recipes

If you want to have a healthier lifestyle, you should use natural cosmetics. Natural cosmetics are easy to make in your own home from healthy ingredients. You can buy ingredients for most natural cosmetic recipes at the grocery or health food store, or order them from an online company. Once you have the ingredients, all you need to do is follow this easy natural cosmetics recipe, and you can easily make a healthy alternative to purchased personal care items.

Here's an easy recipe for making your own bath salts.

Make Your Own Bathsalts

The basic ingredients are uniodized table salt, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) & Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate). Some herbalists also use borax. Add the salts to a large bowl in these proportions:

3 parts Epsom salts
2 parts baking soda
1 part table salt (or borax)
Essential (scented, herbal/floral) Oils

Mix thoroughly using your hands to stir the ingredients. Some people will tell you to use a spoon or other utensil, although others find the salts work better if you use your hands. This is now the base from which you can create a wide variety of bath salts. You can add colours to bath salts. Use plain food colouring for this purpose, letting it fall drop by drop onto the salt base. If two or more colours are required to mix an exotic hue (such as purple), mix these in a spoon first and then add to the salts to avoid creating a two-toned product, unless of course, you plan on a two or three tone salt. Add many drops for a darker coloured salt, fewer for a lightly hued salt. Mix the colour into the salts until it is evenly distributed; again use your hands or you may use a utensil.

Now add the essential oils drop by drop, one ingredient at a time, until the scent seems right. Using your hands and fingertips, mix it until all salt particles are moistened. This may take up to fifteen minutes or longer. As to proportions, rely on your nose to determine the exact quantities. The more potent the finished product's scent, the less will have to be used for each bath. They should be strongly scented.

To use, add from 2 tablespoons to one-half cup of the bath salts to a full tub. Mix with your hands into the water. Enjoy your homemade bath salts!

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