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I don’t know why I didn’t care to pick up a colorful package of bath salts at the store until now except for the fact that I didn’t know anything about them. They just looked so shiny and I knew I wasn’t supposed to eat them. Maybe it was just a luxury for the rich and famous.

But, it is better than late than never. Now that I know about what aromatherapy is and how natural elements are used to treat different skin and body ailments. It is a neat fact to know that this is a natural benefit of stepping into a hot spring, or into a natural mineral bath (where natural salts exist). Exfoliating the skin to remove dead cells is a very important beauty and health regimen, so it is also nice to know that you can do this at home with homemade bath salts.

Why is exfoliating the skin so important? Well, when you do you are opening the pores and encouraging the sweat and bacteria to leave the pores and attach to the bath salts in the bath water. When your pores are so fresh and so clean of all that bacteria, you are taking away the ammo to create pimples! The thought of that should make you feel all the more happy and content.

The added benefit of using homemade bath salts are not just revolving around cleanliness, but also with disinfecting properties, too. You can apply rubbing these epson bath salts to the skin when it is afflicted with Athlete’s Foot or eczema, or when you have some type of skin infection (or a rash). This can also be used to treat bug bites, too.

And, if you are feeling that your muscles are tense from such a draining day, or if you exercised a bit too hard, you can be assured that homemade bath salts can be massaged into the joints and tendons so the muscles inside can relax and feel at ease.

What’s not evil is the awesome benefits of aromatherapy. When you smell scents like cinnamon, lavendar, mint or other pleasant-smelling oils, you somehow find your mood transitioned to a relaxed one. This is no accident, as this is what aromatherapy does. Your stress and tension are alleviated, your mind is eased, and it is all because you got to smell some homemade bath salts.

Though you will understandably end up doing this, try not to stay in the salt bath for forever, or else you will see your fingers turning very prune-like and full of wrinkles. That’s happening because your body is losing water! But, at least you can be assured that homemade bath salts change the water composition and protect the skin from water leaving too much.

One little jar of homemade bath salts, a variety of health benefits to reap from. You would have never known that so much could come out of a pretty little colorful jar. It’s nice to know how these salts make you feel and smell inside and out. They are also relatively cheap and also therapeutic to make.

Sydney Garrett makes homemade bath salts and probably has a lifetime supply of salt scrub ingredients for life.