Turn A Boring Bath Into A Sensuous Spa

Create your own concoctions from fresh ingredients found in your kitchen.

Place all loose and dried ingredients in a square of cheesecloth or muslin and tie securely.
Let dangle from the faucet letting the water run through it as tub fills with warm water.
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Steep a handful of herbs or tea leaves in a teapot of boiling water for 3 - 5 minutes.
Then strain into your bathwater.

NEVER substitute essential oils for the herbs.  Peppermint and cinnamon  essential oils are so concentrated that adding even a drop to a tub full of water can be very irritating to the skin.

For variety, mix several herbs together.  Use about a tablespoon of each whether brewing or using the ingredients dry.

Baking soda in your bath, aids in skin healing and will relax you.

Chamomile is skin softening, skin healing and relaxing.

Apple cider vinegar soothes tired muscles and is skin healing.

Epsom salts is a definite  muscle soother.

Lavender relaxes.

Milk will soften your skin.

Sage is stimulating and at the same time, muscle soothing.

 Salt is considered relaxing and a skin tightener.

Seaweed is stimulating and skin tightening as well as muscle soothing and skin healing.

Tea (black) , skin healing and probably provide you with a nice tan while soaking.

Thyme tightens the skin and is considered stimulating.

Some Like It Hot!

A hot bath (from 100 degrees to 104 degrees) is one of the best ways to clear away the fats and salts that accumulate on the skin, especially during hot weather.  As the hot water caresses the skin, the veins dilate, allowing the heat to hasten its escape from the body, leaving you feeling good and you'll even feel cool.  Going over 104 degrees temperature for your bath water is not recommended.  Prolonged use of 30 minutes or more of water that is too hot will stimulate the heart and be exhausting.

A warm bath of  98 degrees is more soothing.  A 15 minute soak in this temperature right before going to bed will cure anybody that has trouble falling asleep.

92 degrees to 97 degrees is called a "neutral" bath and  has a more sedative effect by relaxing the blood vessels of the skin.  It soothes nerve endings, will calm you down when you're feeling nervous.