| Everywhere you look on the internet, bath salt | | | | add to the relaxing or invigorating properties of |
| recipes abound. Their simple variations are almost | | | | the salts. Adding a scent to your product will not |
| endless, and are a popular craft item to make at | | | | make them potentially dangerous, however. |
| home because of this. Even children can make | | | | So what is the bath salt recipe ingredient that can |
| lovely salts with a little supervision.The ingredients | | | | cause all the trouble? It's baking soda, believe it or |
| are largely commonplace, and can be easily found | | | | not. Some bath salt recipes include it, and |
| in many grocery and drugstores. Despite their | | | | sometimes citric acid as well to make a fizzy |
| seeming simplicity, there is an ingredient that you | | | | product. When baking soda gets wet, it releases |
| need to add with caution to your bath salts. | | | | carbon dioxide. This is actually why baking soda is |
| Commonly, this bath product is made with Epsom | | | | added to baked goods; it releases harmless |
| or sea salts. Epsom salts are easy to obtain, | | | | carbon dioxide that helps baked goods rise. If |
| available in almost any grocery or drugstore, and | | | | your bath salts are stored in an area where |
| are very inexpensive to purchase. These salts | | | | dampness and humidity can affect them, the |
| have been used for generations to help ease | | | | stage is set for a potential explosion, particularly if |
| aching muscles and bruising. Sea salts, depending | | | | citric acid is in the mix as well. |
| on their origins are inexpensive to moderately | | | | This is why bath salts containing baking soda |
| expensive. You can even specialize the type of | | | | should never be stored in a glass container, as |
| sea salt you use in your bath salt recipes; Dead | | | | they can sometimes build up enough pressure |
| Sea salt is very popular because it has properties | | | | from the release of carbon dioxide to shatter the |
| to help soothe and heal skin conditions such as | | | | glass container they are stored in, sending glass |
| acne, eczema and psoriasis, and is even | | | | shards flying. Metal or plastic containers are best |
| recommended by dermatologists to alleviate | | | | for any bath salt recipes containing baking soda. |
| these conditions. Sometimes, the two types of | | | | If you have already used bath salt recipes |
| salts are even combined in one recipe. But the salt | | | | containing baking soda, more than likely your salts |
| component of the recipe is not the ingredient that | | | | will be fine--this is not a common occurrence. Its a |
| you should be wary of. | | | | good idea when you have added any type of |
| Often a bit of glycerin or an oil such as jojoba oil | | | | liquids such as fragrances to your bath salt |
| is added to many delightful bath salt recipes to | | | | mixture to spread the salts on a cookie sheet and |
| make them more moisturizing to the skin as well | | | | let them dry well before you package them. Just |
| as to give the finished salts a nice sheen. But, | | | | keep in mind the potential danger of making a |
| these too are benign ingredients in salts for the | | | | bath product with baking soda then storing in a |
| bath. If you like to add some pleasing scents to | | | | glass container. |
| your bath product, essential or fragrance oils can | | | | |