There are actually a few variations of this recipe, with different basil and mint "elements". I'm going to try to cover them all, here.
You'll need:
1 cup - Pacific Sea Salt
3 cups - Epsom Salt
6-8 drops of Mint Oil
6-8 Dried and Crushed Basil Leaves
Optional: Green Food Coloring
You can change the Epsom salt with different other salts, like Dead Sea salts or Himalayan salt, if you want. However, Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) has quite a few benefits. Read more about the benefits of Epsom salt, here: Epsom Salt Benefits
If you want, you can use the same amount of basil oil instead of mint oil, but in that case, you should use dried and crushed mint leaves. Or, you can use peppermint oil instead of mint oil.
Regarding the dried leaves, it's best to buy fresh basil (or mint, if you're going with the second version), and dry and crush the leaves yourself. Don't purchase them already dried because you never know for how long they've been on a shelf, or in that particular jar, and how much of their aroma they have left. Plus, if you buy them already crushed and packaged, you never know what else that mixture contains, it just may contain other plants as well.
The preparation of the bath salts is simple. Mix the Epsom salt and the Pacific sea salt into a large bowl, add the mint oil, drop by drop, continuously mixing, to obtain nice and even mixture. Spread the mixture in a thin layer on a plate and leave it to dry for a few minutes.
Once the mixture has dried out, put in a jar, add the dried and crushed basil leaves, seal the jar and shake it firmly so that the salts mix evenly with the basil leaf fragments. You will obtain a nice white-greenish bath salt, with green specks from the basil leaves.
You can also add green or yellow food coloring, or whatever food coloring you think would fit best to this type of bath salts. Also, if you want to obtain a nice, decorative look you can color only half of the mixture and leave the other as it is, adding layers from the colored and non-colored salts in the jar.
For more cool bath salts recipes, visit this site: www.homemade-bath-salts-receipes.com
You'll need:
1 cup - Pacific Sea Salt
3 cups - Epsom Salt
6-8 drops of Mint Oil
6-8 Dried and Crushed Basil Leaves
Optional: Green Food Coloring
You can change the Epsom salt with different other salts, like Dead Sea salts or Himalayan salt, if you want. However, Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) has quite a few benefits. Read more about the benefits of Epsom salt, here: Epsom Salt Benefits
If you want, you can use the same amount of basil oil instead of mint oil, but in that case, you should use dried and crushed mint leaves. Or, you can use peppermint oil instead of mint oil.
Regarding the dried leaves, it's best to buy fresh basil (or mint, if you're going with the second version), and dry and crush the leaves yourself. Don't purchase them already dried because you never know for how long they've been on a shelf, or in that particular jar, and how much of their aroma they have left. Plus, if you buy them already crushed and packaged, you never know what else that mixture contains, it just may contain other plants as well.
The preparation of the bath salts is simple. Mix the Epsom salt and the Pacific sea salt into a large bowl, add the mint oil, drop by drop, continuously mixing, to obtain nice and even mixture. Spread the mixture in a thin layer on a plate and leave it to dry for a few minutes.
Once the mixture has dried out, put in a jar, add the dried and crushed basil leaves, seal the jar and shake it firmly so that the salts mix evenly with the basil leaf fragments. You will obtain a nice white-greenish bath salt, with green specks from the basil leaves.
You can also add green or yellow food coloring, or whatever food coloring you think would fit best to this type of bath salts. Also, if you want to obtain a nice, decorative look you can color only half of the mixture and leave the other as it is, adding layers from the colored and non-colored salts in the jar.
For more cool bath salts recipes, visit this site: www.homemade-bath-salts-receipes.com
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