Indian Earthy Naturals : Relaxing Lavender Bath Salts

After a long day, a nice long soak in a hot bath is just the ticket. Adding bath salts can enhance the experience greatly. Whether you have sore, tired feet from standing all day, or a stiff back from working at your desk, these salts can help improve the way you feel and ease away the tension. 

Adding a little salt to your water can actually help improve your circulation and also reduce tenderness. They are recommended for people with back pain, arthritis, muscle tension or spasms, and minor work and sports injuries. They're great for easing stiff, sore, muscles and aching feet and legs.

Bath salts open the pores to purify the skin, cleansing away dirt, sweat, and toxins. They aid in the healing of dry skin, making skin softer and more supple. Salts can help improve common irritations such as insect bites, minor rashes, and calluses on feet, as well as more serious skin conditions like athlete's foot, eczema, and psoriasis. High quality salts may also help improve the appearance of scars.

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KEY INGREDIENTS & THEIR BENEFITS

• Dead Sea Salts: Dead Sea Salts contain 21 minerals including magnesium, calcium, sulfur, bromide, iodine, sodium, zinc and potassium (1). These minerals are known to treat, detoxify, and cleanse our bodies.

• Magnesium: Promotes quick healing of skin tissue and provides the skin’s surface with anti-allergic elements. Also essential for cell metabolism (1).
• Bromide: Soothes skin, relaxes body muscles, and calms nerves (1).
• Iodine: Important for the correct functioning of the thyroid gland and is aids in the body's metabolic exchanges (1).
• Sulfur: A natural disinfectant (constituent of certain vitamins), sulpur is known as a powerful detoxifying agent and a powerful cleanser that has been proven to treat acne effectively (1).
• Potassium: Helps balance moisture in the skin and body, aiding in the reduction of water retention and in the nourishment of cells (1).
• Calcium: Strengthens cell membranes and cleanses pores (1).
• Sodium: Relieves stiffness and muscle cramps. Sodium is also a powerful detoxifying agent, helping cells retain nourishment and expel waste (1).
• Zinc: When applied topically, it is known to protect the skin against sunburn and windburn (1).

• Himalayan Pink Salt: The Himalayan crystal salts are also cleansing and detoxifying to the body and can help revitalise and re-energise a tired body, soothing aching muscles and joints (2). They are hydrating to skin leaving it soft and supple and are also fantastic for skin conditions such as dermatitis and psoriasis.

• Dried Lavender Buds: Lavender is well regarded for its skin healing properties. It’s beautiful scent and is thought to be very calming to the nerves. Lavender is credited with being anti-allergenic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, antibacterial, antispasmodic, balancing, energising, soothing, healing, toning and stimulating (3). It works well on all skin types and is effective in treating oily skin as well as acne, dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis and is thought to stimulate cellular growth and regeneration in the skin by helping the upper layer of skin rejuvenate itself (3).

• Sweet Almond Oil: Great moisturizer for skin, almond oil has a natural ability to plump and firm the skin (4). Helps in repairing, rejuvenating, as well as revitalizing damaged skin ensuring it is left feeling relaxed and looking great (5). (Learn more about the benefits of sweet almond oil HERE!).

• Lavender Essential Oil: An anti-inflammatory and circulatory stimulant. It reduces inflammation thereby causing less skin redness and blotchiness making skin appear evenly colored (6). Enhances circulatory system by causing an increase in blood flow and subsequently an increase in nutrients to the skin along with much needed oxygen to the cells (6). This is essential to healthier cells, and benefits more frequent cell turnover.

The lavender bath salt comes in a 100 gm Ziploc packaged in an attractive, reusable, earthy jute bag. I transferred the contents to a air tight container to avoid the salt reacting with the moisture trapped in the Ziploc.

The bath salts are off-whitish in color, coarse in texture with dried lavender buds dispersed throughout. Due to the dried lavender buds and lavender essential oil, the salts impart a sweet & floral aroma of lavender with herbal notes and balsamic undertones.

To use, take a handful of bath salts and pour them into the bath by holding your hand under the faucet, allowing the bath salts to fall with the water into the tub. While pouring the bath salts into the bath, their fragrance will be released into the steam, allowing for a very fragrant bath. If used as a foot soak, I follow with a foot scrub and moisturizer. 

A skin-smoothing mix of dead sea salts and organic flowers  richly infused with calming lavender essential oil, IEN's bath salts, soothes the skin while relieving minor aches. Lavender, in the meantime, is astringent and cleanses the skin.

I haven't had the chance to use these salts in my bath yet but I have used them as a foot soak with spectacular results.

For the past month, I have been on my feet more than I would have liked. My feet were in dire need of some TLC. A good 15 min soak in skin-conditioning waters scented with the relaxing botanical blend of  bath salts, rejuvenated the sore muscles while calming my senses!

My mother who is often inflicted with swollen feet tried it as a foot soak too and totally loved it. Her swelling seemed to have reduced and she enjoyed the calm and serenity the lavender fragrance brought her.

Luxurious and aromatic, these therapeutic soaks genuinely help you to calm down, de-stress, and relax those tired sore muscles. This immensely calming bath treatment works to restore balance to an overworked mind and body. A must try, in my opinion!