Learn how to make lavender bath salts inexpensively at home. These beautiful lavender bath salts are simple to make and a wonderful gift to give during the holidays, for Mother's Day or as wedding favors. See how to make them here.
I've always loved a long hot bath at the end of the day so I can just sit there all alone without a care in the world and just RELAX.
No dogs wanting walks, no chores to do, no cellphone or tv distracting me. And I normally add a little something-something to the water to make it even more relaxing.
I used to buy my bath soaking salts, but recently I started making my own. Less expensive and so quick and easy it's ridiculous!
And since a jar of this stuff would be fantastic to give as Mother's Day gifts (you do know that's just around the corner, right?) I decided to make a little video and write up how I make mine.
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How To Make Homemade Bath Salts
Supplies
- 2 Cups Epsom Salt
- 1 Cup Pink Sea Salt Flakes (you can substitute coarse ground sea salt)
- 20 Drops Lavender Essential Oil
- 10 Drops Chamomile Essential Oil (Optional)
- ¼ Cup Dried Lavender Blooms
- 1 Small Whisk
- 1 Glass Mixing Bowl
- 1 Glass Jar For Storage (I've got some of my favorite jars listed down below)
- Small Wooden Scoops (small size to put inside the jar)
- Or a larger 1 cup-sized wooden scoop if you prefer to tie it to the top of the jar.
Instructions
Pour the Epsom salt and pink sea salt flakes into the large glass bowl.
Add the dried lavender petals.
Add your lavender and chamomile essential oil drops.
Mix thoroughly with the whisk and spoon into your jar.
How To Use
While filling the tub with warm water, add ¼ to ½ cup of the bath salt under the faucet and swish it around to ensure it dissolves.
Storage Tips
Store your bath salts in an airtight container. You can go as simple as a plastic Tupperware type container or more fancy like the pretty hinged canning jars. Just make sure it's airtight so the fragrance lasts and the salt doesn't get exposed to bathroom humidity causing it to get clumpy.
Store out of direct sunlight or heat so as to not break down the essential oils.
The shelf life of bath salts is approximately 2 years. The salt itself is pretty much good for decades (ok, that may be a slight bit of an exaggeration, but I swear my mom had bath salts from 1972), but the aroma benefits of the essential oils will not last as long.
Printable Bath Salts Recipe
DIY Lavender Bath Salts
Equipment
- 1 Small Whisk
- 1 Glass Mixing Bowl
- 1 Glass Jar For Storage
- 1 Wooden Scoop (Optional)
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Epsom Salt
- 1 Cup Pink Sea Salt Flakes
- 20 Drops Lavender Essential Oil
- 10 Drops Chamomile Essential Oil (Optional)
- ¼ Cup Dried Lavender Blooms
Instructions
Making The Bath Salts
- Pour the Epsom salt and pink sea salt flakes into the large glass bowl.
- Add the dried lavender petals.
- Add your lavender and chamomile essential oil drops.
- Mix thoroughly with the whisk and spoon into your jar.
Using The Bath Salts
- While filling the tub with warm water, add ¼ to ½ cup of the bath salt under the faucet and swish it around to ensure it dissolves
Notes
Lavender Bath Salt Recipe Variations
Follow instructions as above, except substitute other essential oils for the chamomile:
- Lavender & Sweet Orange - use 20 drops of lavender essential oil and 10 drops of sweet orange essential oil
- Lavender & Eucalyptus - use 20 drops of lavender essential oil and 10 drops of eucalyptus essential oil
- Lavender & Rose - use 20 drops of lavender essential oil and 10 drops of rose essential oil (this makes a very pretty gift item if you mix in ¼ cup of dried rose buds)
How To Package As Gifts
Some of my favorite ways to give as gifts are to package them in:
- French Canning Jars With Metal Clasps (Le Parfeit)
- Mason Jars
- Lidded Anchor Hocking Storage Jars
- Milk Bottle Jars
- Glass Bottles With Swing-top Stoppers (very vintage looking)
- The glass jar used in the photos is from Michael's and is similar to the french canning jars I linked to above. The online Michael's only sells them in 12 packs, but if you go to your neighborhood store they sell them individually.
Printable Gift Labels
If you want to give these as a gift I made some pretty little tags you can print out.
Since some people prefer to work with PDFs and some prefer JPEGs (photos), I've attached two separate ways to get the tags. So just pick your preference and print them out on white paper or cardstock.
Click HERE to get Printable gift tags in PDF form
Click HERE to get Printable gift tags in JPEG form
Where the tags reference 4 scoops it is referring to the cute little wooden scoops you can pick up at party stores and on Amazon.
Do You Have To Use The Dried Lavender Buds?
Dried lavender buds (or rosebuds for that matter) do make for a very pretty visual presentation in a jar as a gift. And they are quite festive floating in the bathtub. But the downside is you will need to rinse off those pretty little purple petals both from your body and the tub when you are finished with the soak.
So no you do not have to use them, the recipe works just fine without them. But for me, they're worth the little extra hassle.
A Few Words Of Caution
Do not use any type of bath salts, soaking mixtures or bubble bath in a jetted tub, whirlpool tub or hot tub. The oils may gum up the workings of those types of tubs.
Please be careful when stepping into the bath since Epsom salt can make the bottom of the tub a little more slippery. This goes for all bath soak additives.
And if stored in a glass jar, make sure you have a firm grip on the jar when scooping out the bath salt. Cleaning broken glass out of a tub is not a fun way to spend your Saturday night.
I am not a doctor, nor do I even remotely pretend to be (although when I first started college I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian if that counts, lol). But anyhow, Healthline has an informative article discussing some of the side effects Epsom salt may cause.
Check out the web story version of the article HERE.
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