Spa Salt Bar

Salt Soap Bars.  A combination of natural soap, a sea salt bath, and salt scrub.
                                   Pure Home Spa Luxury !

Natural sea salt is rich in skin nourishing minerals like magnesium, calcium, potassium and iodine.

As a skin benefit sea salt cleanses and detoxifies as well as increases blood circulation and helps in
restoring the Ph value of the skin.  It makes dry or rough skin really soft, smooth.
An added benefit is is relaxes skin muscles.

Dead Sea salt is salt that is extracted from the water of the Dead Sea which is a salt lake located
between Jordan and Israel.  The water there has 29% salt, compared to 4% in the oceans.

Dead Sea salt has tremendous therapeutic benefits as it is known to be effective in helping with
common skin ailments such as acne and psoriasis as well as reducing inflammation and improving
skin hydration.  It is also known to relieve allergic reaction by cleansing and detoxifying due to its
high concentration of bromide and magnesium.    It's minerals maintain skin moisture levels, nourish
the cells and are reported to help with fatigue!   It's mineral content far exceeds regular sea salt and
as such has more healing properties.

Dead Sea salt with its high magnesium level will sweat a little in a salt soap bar, so I combined it
with Mediterraneum Sea salt for a luxurious and highly effective spa bar.

There are a few different ways to make spa salt soap bars, this is just one.

With its lovely salt line consisting of the two sea salts and finely ground calendula and corn flowers,
this bar works great on your weary, dry feet and heels as an exfoliater and hydrator and soother.  
Olive oil and castor oil make up the body of this bar, blended in are pure essential oils of tangerine, peppermint, eucalyptus, lemongrass and a dash of patchouli.   This bar can be used as a lovely
shaving soap. Best used with warm to hot water to melt butters. Not a latherer.

Note:  sorry all bars of this limited edition soap have been sold

Homemade Coffee Scrub Recipe

            This skin softening, invigorating, natural treatment is used in spas around the world...
                                               and in our own  Home Spa's for pennies!

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Coffee, America's great morning picker-upper is a great exfoliator too!   And the perfect

addition to your home-spa pantry. Use your favorite coffee in a fragrant, pampering body scrub.

Want to be resourceful?  *Save your morning grounds and mix them into a scrub to be used the 

same day.

Why coffee?   Coffee grounds are a natural exfoliator. Exfoliation is the removal of dead, dry skin cells that collect on the outer surface of the skin. The coffee buffs these unwanted cells off and speeds up our own skins natural renewal process, producing healthy glowing skin.   Also, coffee's natural caffein content is used as a topical treatment for cellulite, as it dilates blood vessels which increases speed and volume of blood flow.  Which, in theory, helps remove excess water from our tissue, thus improving the skins appearance and tone, according to the University of Sao Paulo 2008 study.   (ok girls, we all know we cannot fully get rid of our cellulite, but we can reduce the appearance of it , weight loss is also key).   

Note: We are talking about a body scrub here, not a facial scrub.  Facial scrubs are composed more gentle than body scrubs.

Ever wonder why you have alligator skin legs even after using quality lotion?  Its time to exfoliate.

When you exfoliate your legs, for example, you unclog the pores, allowing your skin to absorb the necessary moisture it needs. The healthy benefits in your quality lotion can now actually get to their destination in your dry legs. ( feet, heels etc ). Dull skin comes alive, leaving you with a natural glow

and beautiful soft skin. 

How: Apply this in the shower, it will be slippery, or sitting on tub side.  Take a  palm full of scrub and apply in a circular motion, paying attention to cellulite areas, small varicose vein areas, and dry skin areas. 

RECIPE for one use:   Basic Coffee Scrub 

• 3 TBL coffee grounds;   Use new grounds for the greatest application of caffein.  
• 1 TBL natural oil of your choice:  like olive oil, grapeseed, coconut (melted), almond etc.. Don't use any petroleum based oil as this will clog pores!  Olive has a heavier feel, is naturally hypoallergenic and is full of vitamin A and E , helps repair skin....grapeseed oil is lighter in feel, silky, not oily, and penetrates the skin quickly. It is cheaper than olive oil and is easily found in the grocery store with the other oils. This is a great choice for scrubs as it has almost no scent and is good for sensitive skin. Great for cooking too.
• 1 TBL sugar:  white or brown or a mixture of both.
• Mix all dry ingredients, then add oil (s).  Oil amount is your preference based on how much coffee grounds you are using.  Make this in single use amounts, or make a larger batch and store in frig if you used wet grounds. Final scrub consistency is your perogative, some like more oil than others, some like it dryer. Experiment. There's no wrong or right.

RECIPE:   Mocha Spice

• 1 TBL Cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• Add to the basic coffee scrub recipe above,s dry ingredients, then add oil (s)
• optional :  vanilla

   NOTE:  Don't exfoliate skin with rashes or abrasions

*NOTE: I recommend using fresh coffee grounds as the caffeine content is not depleted. However, if               you use, used grounds for your scrub, dry them out first, you don't want

            to introduce water into your scrub, it breeds bacteria. You can use your wet

            grounds if you make a one time use scrub and use it that same day. 

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                Check out my coffee soap recipe you can make yourself, full tutorial ! 

thanks for stopping by,  Anna