Taking Bath is the best way to unwind yourself from a hectic schedule. You can turn your bathing experience into an invigorating one by adding certain ingredients which help your body to relax and also relaxes your mind both your body and mind to relax. Some ingredients which can be added to your bath water and their effects:
- Salt: Relaxes the tensed muscles, makes your skin smooth, detoxes the body, relaxes tired feet, improves circulation, prevents skin disorders, purifies the pores and removes toxins from skin. It is also good for exfoliation. Table salt would be a general choice but you can also go for rock salt. These days you get sea salts and Himalayan rock salts as well apart from the regular bath salts! Also, pair them with your favorite essential oils for a luxurious experience!
- Milk: Softens skin, cleans the pores, good for exfoliation, nourishes the skin, improves skin texture and appearance, removes body odor, prevents skin disorders.
- Honey: soothes and nourishes the skin, makes skin silky and fragrant, prevents skin disorders, lightens scars and any marks on the skin and removes any bacteria present in the skin.
- Oils : You can use coconut oil or almond oil. It lightens complexion, moisturizes and nourish the skin. You can also put a mix of these oils.
- Oat meal: soothes and nourishes the skin. Put some oat meal in a cheese cloth and put it under running water.
and then, use it for exfoliation.This way you get oat milk in your bath water and the oats in the cheese cloth can be used as a body wash. This is an amazing tip for sensitive skin!
- Essential Oils: soothes and softens skin, lightens scars and any marks on the skin, heals wounds and soothes tired muscles and skin and you smell divine.
- Floral Water: You can definitely put many flowers into your bath for an aromatherapy. Rose, Jasmine, Rosemary, Lavender, Chamomile, Marigold are some of the flowers which you can go for. They would relax your mind, elevate your senses and provide you the ultimate pleasure of relaxation. They soothe your complete body. You can also use the floral water.
So, go ahead and try putting a combination of various ingredients and enjoy an invigorating bath.
PS: Italicized paragraphs are updates on the original post!
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Ray S says
Where do I send in queries?
Swati Murti says
hi Ray…you can either comment or contact me using the contact form in the contact page accessible from the navigation bar.
Anonymous says
Hi swati
Thnk u for answering my earlier query.i want to know which bath salt is gud n where can I get it in hyderabad or online.
Swati Murti says
well, i can say the simplest way is to get some himalayan salts or mineral salts. you can get that from good seeds.
https://www.facebook.com/goodseeds
they will deliver to your house. put a spoon or two into your bath water and if you have essential oils, pour a drop or two and enjoy 🙂
essential oils, you can get at naturalmantra.com
Swati Murti says
or, otherwise try naturalmantra for bathsalts or soulflower.
http://naturalmantra.com/
http://soulflower.biz/
Anonymous says
Hi swati wherr can I get best bath salt in hyderabad or online