Our homemade recipes for a relaxing bath
Need a break from your busy week? After a hard day, relaxing baths are real little moments filled with relaxation. Discover our recipes to make at home!
How to take a good relaxing bath?
What could be more soothing than a nice hot bath? It is a moment that we grant ourselves to chase away stress and the various tensions that settle in our body. This accumulation of stress results in muscular tension, headaches, and a general state of fatigue. Reassuring and comforting, the relaxing bath offers the opportunity, increasingly rare, to take a break from a busy life and to regain physical and mental shape.
What ingredients for a relaxing homemade bath?
Taking a good soothing bath is an art. Essential oils, aromatic plants, milks, salts, flower petals… there are a multitude of recipes for relaxing homemade baths.
Here's an overview of the essential ingredients for relaxing in your bathtub :
• Essential oils: essential oils are natural allies of choice. Lavender essential oil is the essential for a successful relaxing moment. Indeed, with its delicious floral scent, lavender essential oil has powerful relaxing, calming and sedative properties. It allows physical and mental relaxation, and is conducive to good sleep. Ylang ylang essential oil helps calm agitation, anxiety, irritability and nervousness. Finally, rosewood essential oil, both calming and soothing, is also an ingredient to have near your bathtub. Add 10 drops of this essential oil to 10ml of vegetable oil to benefit from its anti-fatigue, anti-depression and anti-tension properties.
• Bath milks: the benefits of milk on the skin are no longer to be proven. But, did you know that a milk bath could also treat tensions? To do this, opt for milks with a relaxing scent. Collosol Milk Water , with its delicate orange blossom scent, offers you a relaxing and intoxicating interlude. Known for its calming, sedative and soothing power, orange blossom is ideal for people suffering from sleep disorders. Collosol Milk Water in a nice hot bath and in bed!
• The bath bomb: fun and inexpensive, the effervescent ball is one of the trendy products of recent years. There are all kinds and for all types of needs. Relaxing bath bombs are mostly formulated with essential oil. Beware of their composition, however! Made mainly from baking soda, citric acid, vegetable oil, coloring and perfume, bath bombs are not recommended for sensitive skin.
• Salts: Bath salt is good for both the skin and when you want to give yourself a moment of calm. Calming Dead Sea bath salt, soothing Epsom salt or even sea salt bath salt, choose it according to your preference and needs.
How to make your bath salt?
Making salts with essential oils only takes you 3 minutes. Epsom salt is the most indicated in the recipe for your homemade bath salt. It comes in the form of small crystals and is available in an organic version. Epsom salt is the king ingredient to relax and unwind in your bath.
To make your own salt, you will need an airtight container, a bowl, gloves and a small spoon to mix it.
DIY: lavender bath salt
Ingredients :
• 1 cup Epsom salt
• 1 tablespoon of baking soda
• 10 drops of lavender essential oil
• 10 drops of rosemary essential oil
• 1/2 cup dried flowers and herbs (optional)
• A little food coloring (optional)
In a container, mix the salt and baking soda with the drops of both essential oils. Add the food coloring and dried herbs. Mix everything together and place in a closed container. Store your homemade scented bath salts in an airtight jar. They can be kept for 3 to 6 months.
When ready to enjoy the benefits of the preparation, pour the equivalent of several tablespoons of the mixture directly into the bathtub, or into an organza bag that you will tie, if it contains dried herbs. This will prevent them from sticking everywhere. Stir gently to delicately melt the salts, then enjoy their benefits by staying there for at least ten minutes, taking deep breaths.
DIY: menthol bath salt
Ingredients :
• ½ cup Epsom salt
• 1 large handful of fresh mint leaves, chopped
• The juice and zest of one lemon
• 5 drops of lemon essential oil
Easy, just mix all the ingredients in a bowl before pouring them into the bathtub. It is necessary to use the entire recipe because the mixture cannot be stored.
Relaxing baths are suitable for both adults and children. With a milky lotion, an effervescent bomb or even essential oils, diving into your bathtub allows you to evacuate the tensions of everyday life. To make your homemade cosmetics, rely on natural components with beneficial properties for your body.
Our beauty tip: take advantage of the effect of the hot steam on your facial skin to apply a mask made from organic green clay powder, once you get out of the bath. Apply your body care and follow the steps of your usual facial beauty routine. Soft skin effect guaranteed!
