These gorgeous smelling lavender and sweet orange bath salts are a great way to end a long day. They can be easily made is a matter of minutes, and soon you’ll be relaxing with these lovely skin-soothing bath salts.

Lavender and Sweet Orange Bath Salts

To make these bath salts, you will need a few ingredients:

Supplies:

¼ cup epsom salts
¼ cup citric acid
¼ cup corn starch or cornflour
½ cup baking soda
1 tbsp sweet almond oil
10 drops lavender essential oil
15 drops sweet orange essential oil
¼ tsp Orange mica powder or turmeric powder
¼ tsp Lavender mica powder or beetroot powder
1 tbsp dried lavender buds

How to make Bath Salts

Add the Epsom salts, citric acid, cornstarch / cornflour and baking soda to a bowl.

Mix the dry dry ingredients with a whisk until well combined.

Add the mica powder if using or turmeric and beetroot powder.

Very slowly, add the sweet almond oil, while whisking. Stir until the mixture is well mixed.

While still whisking, add the essential oil.

Add the lavender buds if using, and stir through.

To Use – add a few tablespoons to your bath.

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I love adding Epsom salts to my baths as it soothes achy muscles, relieves stress while helping to detoxify the body. The bicarbonate of soda helps calm itchy and irritated skin while the almond oil moisturises the skin.

As many people have nut allergies or just don’t like using almond oil, you could replace this with jojoba, avocado, coconut or olive oil.

Though the cornflour is not necessary and can be left out or replaced with an equal amount of baking soda, the citric acid is necessary as this is what makes the salts fizz when added to the bath.

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