How Do You Make Homemade Bath Salts?
• Select a base quantity and type of bath salt. This determines the size of your final batch, because the quantity won’t significantly increase once you add any desired additives. • Make a small batch with about 1 cup (about 300 g) of salt, or a larger batch with 4 cups (1200 g) or more. • Coarse sea salt or Epsom salt make excellent bases for making bath salts; avoid fine-grained table salt, which is more likely to dry your skin. • If you’ve already picked out the container you’ll store your salts in, a glass jar with a close-fitting lid is ideal, measure out the appropriate quantity of salts by filling the container about 3/4 of the way full, then pouring the salt back out into a bowl to mix in the other ingredients. • Likewise, start with just 1 or 2 drops of food coloring, then gradually mix more in until the blend reaches the desired strength. • 1 tsp. to 1 tbsp. (5 ml to 15 ml) of glycerin per cup of salts is another excellent, optional skin softener. Mix the glycerin together wi
