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Lavender Bath Salts

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Lavender Bath Salts are super easy to make! There’s nothing quite like relaxing in a tub of hot water after a long day.

test tubes with bath salts inside.

Make a batch of these lavender bath salts to keep for yourself and a second batch to give away as Christmas gifts or party favors.

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bath salts ingredients on a tabletop.

For this recipe, I used sea salt, Epsom salt, baking soda, a couple of drops of lavender essential oil, and a couple of drops of blue food coloring.

Reasons To Use Lavender Bath Salts:

  • Sea salt (especially dead sea salt) can help with relaxation, muscle pain relief, reducing stress, enhancing circulation, decreasing inflammation, supporting detoxification, and possibly helping with skin issues like psoriasis and eczema.
  • Epsom salt can help with softening skin, exfoliation, relaxation, detoxification, and muscle pain relief.
  • Baking soda can help soften, smooth, and detoxify your skin.
  • Lavender essential oil can help with muscle pain relief, relaxation, stress relief, and trouble falling asleep.
bath salts ingredients in a bowl.

Put the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

blue bath salts in a bowl.

Add the essential oil and color (if desired) and stir until evenly distributed.

hands using a spoon and a funnel to add bath salts to a clear plastic test tube.

Use a funnel to put the bath salts into test tubes or small containers.

Tips About Lavender Bath Salts Test Tubes:

  • I’ve ordered these test tubes from Amazon and used them like this.
  • They are sometimes available in the bargain bins near the cash registers at Michaels, like the ones in this post.
  • Check for glass test tubes at Hobby Lobby where there are science kits for kids.
  • Learning/education stores might also sell test tubes for young scientists.
  • If the caps aren’t the color you want, spray-paint them!
  • Test tubes come in various sizes. The lavender bath salts recipe can be easily adjusted or doubled to fill all of the containers you need.
Test tubes with bath salts inside.

Print out the bath salt labels, cut them down to size, and glue them to the test tubes using a glue stick.

You can download the free bath salts printable labels HERE.

bath salts in clear plastic test tubes.

For the party, I put the test tubes in an old glass candle holder with Epsom salt in the bottom to hold them in place.

Lavender Bath Salts Recipe

Makes: 1 cup

This recipe can easily be customized by substituting your favorite essential oil and color.

3/4 cup of sea salt
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of epsom salt
2 tablespoons baking soda
a couple of drops of lavender essential oil
a couple of drops of blue food coloring

Put the sea salt, Epsom salt, and baking soda in a bowl and mix well.
Add the essential oil and color. Stir until evenly distributed.
Use a funnel to pour into test tubes.

bath salts collage.

 

 

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  1. Sara says

    Love this idea! I am planning a service project using your spa in a jar. May I ask…how many little jars were you able to make with each recipe? (I’m planning for about 100 recipients and trying to figure out how much to purchase.)

    Thanks!

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    • Tonia says

      Hi Sara,
      One batch of this recipe makes about 1 cup so it will depend on the size of the containers you are using. Best of luck!
      ~Tonia

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    • Cindy says

      Piping Rock is a great website to buy essential oils!! They have great prices & quality products. They always have great sales going on too. Check it out.

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      • CherylAnn says

        Thank you Cindy for the great suggestion of Piping Rock! I didn’t know they existed until reading your comment and I agree: they have great products at great prices and I hit a fabulous sale. About to make some gifts and everything here has been tremendously helpful.

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  3. Susan says

    I found some tube containers at a store closing sale and thought they would be great filled with lavender bath salts for an upcoming Ladies Retreat gift. Searching for a recipe, I found your site. Thanks so much for sharing!

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  5. Giulia says

    Hello there,
    Is there any substitute for Epsom salt? It is really hard to find it over here where I live
    Thanks in advance

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    • Tonia says

      Hi Giulia,
      I do not know of a substitute for Epsom salt. I tried doing a brief online search and all of the recipes I found call for Epsom salt. Best of luck!
      ~Tonia

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    • Rachel says

      Hi Gulia,

      If you are struggling to find Epsom salt in the UK I’ve found that Boots sell 1kg bags of it for around £6 (currently on offer for £2.50!) and Asda also sell it too according to their website, but I couldn’t find any in store.

      Hope this helps!

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    • Tonia says

      I had a hard time finding test tubes. There are many places where they are available online but the shipping would’ve been expensive in order to get them in time for the party. I found these test tubes at Michaels on clearance for 38 cents each. They had Halloween candy in them and they only had these 6 left. I threw away the candy (my kids have enough candy!!), washed the test tubes and spray painted the lids silver.

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  9. Kelli Dabney says

    Hi there! I love your spa ideas and made a few of them today for my mops steering team and a thank you gift. I was wondering what fond you used for the labels? I’ve put the bath salts in a 4 oz jar just like the other 2 things I’ve made from your spa jar. Of course this label won’t fit on the jar I’m using. 🙂

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  10. Katrina says

    As a massage therapist I love anything to do with R & R for me, my family, friends, and my clients Baking soda helps restore the skins pH balance, furthermore cornstarch is wonderful for softening water and leaving the skin silky smooth. I had a recipe for bath bombs (citric acid, essential oils, cornstarch and I think baking soda and a base oil.) and also for an oatmeal milk bath. It made a bit of a mess in the tub but it feels oh so wonderful. I used powered buttermilk, which could easily be added to this recipe the fatty acids in it are awesome for skin. I love home-made and organic and am always looking for new ideas as freebies or gifts for special occasions. Last Christmas I did the aloe infused socks for all my December clients but it feels like so much more when you make it yourself!

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  11. Rachele says

    Made this but added some tea bags to it. I noticed the jars were building up pressure inside. It’s been two weeks, any ideas?

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    • Tonia says

      Oh no, Rachele! That didn’t happen to me but I wonder if it is something in the tea bags reacting with the baking soda?

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  12. Talia says

    This is so perfect. I made these for a present for my neighbors who are moving and they loved it. I also used it and they are amazing. I scented all of mine peppermint which was nice and relaxing for the holidays. Be careful though! The sugar scrub is slippery!

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  15. WENDY EGRES says

    You can get test tubes through Steve Spangler Science they are called baby soda bottles, and they are a pretty good size and fairly reasonable

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