Updated 10/6/17 Make your own MILK BATH, 4 free recipes!
pure pampering luxury for your the home-spa experience.
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Warm water from
a spa or a bath helps to relax our bodies by warming muscles,
allowing them to relax, as well as improve blood circulation.
If you can’t step into a spa for
that much needed soak, turn your tub into your own personal spa with ingredients you probably already have.
Surround the tub with candles, soft
background music if you like, a good book, or simply just relax in the peaceful
atmosphere as research shows that taking a warm bath an hour before bed can help
you to sleep.
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The home-spa-bathing experience is
more than unwind time. It’s a great way to hydrate yourself and soak
in skin loving natural ingredients that soothe, nourish and moisturize your skin, aiding in elasticity, cell
renewal, anti-aging and overall skin health.
Leaving you with a natural glow and general well being.
Here are a few ideas to get you started....
· The Milk Bath:
There are many variations of the milk bath. The lactic acid in milk along with its fat
and vitamin content is simply unparalleled.
It is soothing, nourishing and a gentle exfoliater that loosens the bonds that hold dry,
dead skin cells allowing them to slough off. New skin
cells are revealed and new skin cell growth is stimulated.
It will leave your skin refreshed and renewed,
literally.
Recipe 1 :
Milk and Honey spa bath
1 ½ cups dry powdered milk or liquid milk.( Use
full fat or lowfat, the
higher the fat content the more nourishing and soothing to skin.
¼ cup baking soda (cleans, soothes, softens skin)
¼ cup Epsom salt
(magnesium rich, is great for your skin)
¼ cup warmed honey
(humectant, anti-inflammatory)
Use: Pour all ingredients under warm running bath water.
You can also
make up
the dry ingreds in advance and store in airtight container.
Recipe 2 :
Rose - Milk spa bath
1 ½ cups – 2 cups milk (dry or liquid) full fatted
works best
2 – 3 cups homemade rosewater (simply steep rose
petals like tea and strain. Use 1 cup dried
petals or 2 cups fresh petals to 2 cups boiling water to steep)
A few drops of rose essential oil (optional for scent)
Drop a few handfuls of fresh petals
into the tub for the finishing touch,
This is my personal favorite.
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Use: simply pour ingredients under
running water.
Recipe 3:
Oatmeal and Milk
1 ½ - 2 cups
Milk (as above)
½ cup oatmeal finely ground ( grind in coffee grinder
or bullet type)
The
finer you grind your oatmeal, the more it will suspend in
your water,
(which is what you want) this is called colloidal oatmeal.
Use: Pour
milk and ground oatmeal under warm running bath water.
Some will settle on the tub bottom, just stir around a bit. It washes
down
the drain just fine. Can be a bit
slippery. Colloidal oatmeal is
great
for itchy skin, dry skin, acneic, or oily skin. Soothing.
Recipe 4:
Scented Milk Bath
1 ½ cups milk (powdered or liquid)
¼ - ½ cup cornstarch (anti- inflammatory, soothing to
skin)
¼ cup baking soda
**Essential oil of your choice
Use: Combine
dry ingredients
well. Put them in a glass container
with a lid and add essential oil(s), shake to combine
well. Use 1 to 2 cups per bath.
** HOW to add essential oils to your bath water:
Mix 5-6 drops of essential oil into liquid whole milk, pour into tub water
or
Mix 5 drops essential oil into 1 TBL of carrier oil (such as sunflower,
grapeseed, olive, sweet almond, etc) pour under running water.
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