Aromatherapy Bath Products - soak and heal
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Aromatherapy bath products are a great way to turn a bath into a healing experience. Products you can purchase, or make yourself, include:
* Bath oils: essential oils like rose, lavender and sandalwood added to a carrier oil like macadamia oil;
* Soaps made with essential oils;
* Bath salts.
The combination of steaming water to relax your muscles and the scents can make it easy to relax in the evening or at any time.
The scents in most aromatherapy bath products come from essential oils, which are oils extracted from plants that tend to hold concentrated scents from those plants. These can be purchased and added to your bathwater to make it fragrant, but keep in mind that you will only want to add a few drops at most, as the concentrated essential oils are quite intense, and too much in contact with your skin can be uncomfortable.
Bath salts are being sold as aromatherapy bath products these days, as manufacturers combine the salts with essential oils to create an easy way to have a scented bath without adding too much of the essential oils. These salts have benefits that go beyond just the scent of the bath, though. Some salts will make it easier to exfoliate when washing, which leads to healthier skin, while salts based on magnesium sulfate can act as an anti-inflammatory agent. So, for an aromatic bath with extra health benefits, consider scented bath salts.
Add Fun With Bath Bombs
Also known as bath fizzies, bath bombs are another class of aromatherapy bath products that can add scents to your bathwater, though in this case, they can add some fun as well. Typically made with scented oils, baking soda, and weak acids like citric acid, when a bath bomb hits the water, the baking soda and acid combine and fizz, just as most elementary school students observe at one time.
The fizz creates a tickling, massaging sensation as the water bubbles around you, and the scents get released. So, as we can see, there is a variety of aromatherapy bath products that can meet any of your needs, whether you want the scents in their purest form, additional health benefits from what you put in the water, or just scented water and a little fun.
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