Mood-booster Bath Salts

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Hello everybody! 😀

I made a promise in my last post so here I am with the new extra-simple new formula experiment.

This recipe won’t be like the ones I usually post, and this is for a very simple reason: I just do not measure the ingredients for this one! 😀
So you just need to gather the ingredients and you are almost done! 😉

The name “Mood-booster” is a big reach 😀 they don’t actually have any mood changing property other than the pampering feeling, but I did enjoy them a lot! Epsom salts and some nice smells, sometimes it is all I need.

That’s it, these salts are made with:
– Epsom Salts
– Fragrance Oil of cosmetic grade (or essential oils)

I simply added them into a becher and mixed them well.
I pour the mixture in a cosy jar and… tadaaa!
As simple as that! 😀

In my second try I added:
– SLSA (powder surfactant: a small amount that I directly mixed together with the fragrance oil; this is because the surfactant will emulsify the oil making it spread in the water instead of getting it only on the surface! It is a little trick 😉

– bicarbonate and citric acid (by adding a spoon of bicarbonate and a spoon of citric acid, it will create a little bit of fizz which will make these bath salt go to the next level.

– powder food colorant or natural colorants (here I have used a teaspoon of red rootbeat powder! In the first picture the salts are the ones in the green-cap-jar)

– Powder skim milk – I had a leftover powder milk which was hanging around for ages (and I am not sure it was even still edible) so I decided to add it to my salts and I liked the results! (in the first picture the salts where I used powder milk are in the purple-cap-jar).

– I wouldn’t add dry flowers – I have read many recipes online where people just cannot help adding dry flowers into their bath salts and actually, the first time I made bath salts, I decided to add some lavender flowers as well… however, I didn’t like the result at all! 😀 The salts looked great in the jar, the flowers gave that wonderful feeling of something rustic and “real”, but in the bath-tub they were terribly uncomfortable! 😀 They were all floating on the surface and I had to take extra-time rinsing them off of me when I decided to get out: not exactly the right ending for a relaxing experience. So, you are free to add them if you desire to do so (I know you cannot resist!!! 😀 😀 😀 ) but the responsibility won’t be mine! 😀