We love home remedies, or home recipes for beauty. This is because they are generally more readily available to people. There are a million and one home remedies available on the internet today, but we want to talk specifically about salt.
Salt actually has many benefits to the skin and body, so we are going to share 11 of those with you today.
How to Use Salt For Beauty
1. Anti Aging Facial Scrub
• 1 teaspoon honey
• ¼ teaspoon salt (Finely milled. If you cannot find fine-milled you can put it in a food processer for a few whirls)
Optional:
• ½ teaspoon strongly brewed coffee, white, green, black or red tea
• ½ teaspoon soymilk or cream
Directions: Place all ingredients in a food processer or blender and pulse till combined.
2. Stress Relief Bath
• 1 ½ cups of Epsom salt
• 1/8 cup of well ground oatmeal (Try to get as close to a powder as you can with the tools you have at home)
• ¼ cup of milk (Fresh or powdered. Powdered is more concentrated)
Optional:
• 2 drops of lavender essential oil
• 3 drops of carrot oil
• 2 drops of vitamin E
• 2 tablespoons of orange juice
Note: If you use powdered milk you can mix the main ingredients in advance and keep in a sealed container, and add the optional ingredients directly into bath.
3. Muscle Relaxing Soak
• 2 cups Epson salts
• 2 cups dead sea salts
• 1/8 cup powdered mustard
• ¼ cup sea salt
Optional:
• 2 drops eucalyptus essential oil
• 1/8 a teaspoon fresh ginger
• 2 tablespoons of strongly brewed tea of chamomile, licorice, valerian, devils claw or cramp bark
Note: You can mix the main ingredients in advance and keep in a sealed container, and add the optional ingredients directly into bath.
4. Removing dead skin cells : During your shower, after cleansing your skin with a body wash, you can use salt to gently exfoliate away dead skin cells.
5. Reviving swollen achy feet : Fill a bowl or basin with a combination of equal parts baking soda, Epsom salts, and sea salt. Fill bowl about half way full with warm water, a soak.
6. Mouth wash : Mix equal parts of salt and baking soda for a mouthwash that freshens breath. Add 1 teaspoon of salt mixture to ¼ cup water.
7. Mosquito bites, poison ivy : Soak in salt water bath to relieve itch and irritation
8. To detoxify : Use a combination of 1 cup Epsom salt, ½ cup sea salt and 1 tablespoon of kaolin clay for a detoxifying bath soak.
9. Beach waves : Mix sea salt, coconut oil and water and put in a spray bottle. Use on wet hair to create the beach wave look when dried. How much salt you use depends on the level of curl you want and coconut oil on dryness of hair.
10. Facial toner for acne prone skin : Mix 1 teaspoon of sea salt with 2 cups of water and 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and put in spray bottle. Spray on face (keep out of eyes). Make sure to moisturize your skin as well.
11. For dry calloused feet : Mix equal parts sea salt with cornmeal and baking powder, then add water. Soak feet first to soften, then scrub and moisturize.
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