Essential Oils in the Bath
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There are several ways to use essential oils in the bath. First, of course, they can just be added neat and undiluted to the water. This gives the bath a wonderful aroma and you the therapeutic values of whichever oils you have chosen. But the oils can also be incorporated into homemade bath crystals, bath oils and bubble baths.
Most of the prettily packaged bath crystals you can buy in the shops are nothing more than washing soda crystals with color and fragrance added. To make your own at home couldn’t be easier and if you save attractive glass jars over the year. Simply crush washing soda crystals, add a little food coloring, and the essential oils of your choice – to each 250 grams add 20 drops of essential oil. Tie a few ribbons around the jars, et voila . . .
Many people find plain tap-water drying to the skin and need a bath oil to counteract its effects. There are few truly dispersible bath oils except a treated castor oil known as Red Turkey Oil. You can add the essential oil directly into the bottle, just as you would with any other base oil, using 1 drop to 1 milliliter of oil; as most bottles of this oil come in 50ml sizes, add 50 drops of your chosen oil or blend of oils. Use about 1 teaspoon of this to each bath. Alternatively, first add your essential oil neat to the bath – 4-6 drops per bath – and then put a teaspoon of Red Turkey Oil in the bath.
Non-dispersible oils may also be added to baths, only in this case the oil will float on the water and then cling to your body when you get out.
Any nourishing oil can be used, such as avocado, almond, apricot kernel or grapeseed, or make a blend – again add 1 drop of essential oil per milliliter of bath oil and use a teaspoon in each bath. Here is a good proportional blend for baths:
Avocado 10ml
Apricot kernel 10ml
Sweet almond 30ml
Add 50 drops of essential of your choice Sweet almond 30ml
Sometimes there is nothing more appealing than lying back in a bath full of bubbles, while the aromas of the essential oils drift around you, soothing and relaxing. The following recipe is for a bubble bath that is also cleansing. Use only one hundred per cent pure soap – either soap flakes or grated pure soap.
225g soap flakes (or grated soap)
2 tablespoons witch-hazel
450ml almond oil
450ml spring water
Boil the spring water and melt the soap in it. In another container, mix the witch-hazel and almond oil together and shake well. (If possible, do this in a blender.) Then slowly add the soap mixture to the witch-hazel and oil blend and again, shake or blend well. These amounts will make a large quantity of basic bubble bath mixture to which you can add the essential oils of your choice as and when required
For each 30ml base bubble bath use 15 drops of essential oil and mix well. Use 1-2 teaspoons of the final product in each bath.
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR NORMAL SKIN
NORMAL SKIN BLEND
Palmarosa, Carrot, Geranium, Jasmin, Neroli, Ylang-ylang, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Lavender
Frankincense 3 drops,Palmarosa 10 drops, Neroli 5 drops, Lavender 12 drops
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR DRY SKIN
Benzoin, Palmarosa ,Patchouli, Carrot, Chamomile German, Geranium, Pettigraine, Bois de rose, Lavender, Rose
DRY SKIN BLEND
Palma rosa 10 drops, Chamomile German 5 drops, Carrot 5 drops, Bois de rose 10 drops
ESSENTIAL OILS FOR GREASY SKIN
Chamomile Roman, Orange, Lemon, Lavender, Clary Sage, Ylang-ylang, Jasmine, Neroli, Nutmeg, Cypress, Bergamot
GREASY SKIN SYNERG1STIC BLEND
Lemon 15 drops,Cypress 10 drops,Ylang-ylang 5 drops
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