A warm bath can feel heavenly, as you sit back, relax and let the problems of daily life melt away. Adding bath salts can make the experience even more beneficial for your mind and body, easing stress and providing many health benefits.
Epsom salt and sea salt are packed with incredible minerals like magnesium, calcium, and potassium that can soothe sore muscles, reduce inflammation, and promote overall skin health. When combined with the best natural skincare ingredients and fragrant essential oils in one soothing soak, these salts can bring out the best in your mind, body, and skin.
Before you dive in, here's everything you need to know about why salt baths are so good for you, and how you can create the perfect salt bath to unwind in.
The Benefits of Relaxing Bath Salts
Here are some of the amazing things that bath salts can do:
1. Reduce stress
A warm bath can help relax your mind and provide some serious stress relief, but soaking in salt water can push those benefits even further.
Magnesium is an important mineral that regulates your body's stress responses, but studies show that many adults in the UK don't get enough magnesium in their diets. Soaking in a magnesium-rich salt bath allows your body to absorb extra minerals through the skin, rebalancing your body and leading to a feeling of calmness and relief.
Additionally, the warm water of the bath can help to raise your body temperature and promote relaxation, while the scent of added essential oils can provide an aromatherapy experience to help reduce stress even further.
2. Improve sleep
The relaxing effects of bath salts can help to improve sleep, allowing you to get a good night's rest.
Besides reducing your stress levels with magnesium and other important minerals, a salt bath can also warm up your entire body. This promotes the dilation of blood vessels and brings your body into a state of relaxation, while the decrease in temperature after the bath can signal to the body that it is time to sleep.
3. Detox your skin
Bath salts can help to remove impurities from the skin, promoting a natural detoxification process and improving overall skin health. The minerals in bath salts – especially sodium and potassium – offer a deep cleansing effect on your skin, purging toxins and dead skin cells from your pores for a clear and smooth complexion.
A simple salt bath is a great way to detox your skin and enjoy the benefits of a pampering spa treatment from your own home.
4. Relieve dry skin conditions
Studies show that bath salts can help to improve conditions such as eczema, psoriasis and acne by reducing inflammation and balancing the skin's pH levels.
Soaking in a mineral salt bath is a very effective way to soothe irritated skin, relieve itching, and reduce dry skin. Not only that, but it can also help actively treat these skin conditions, calming inflammation for longer-term relief.
5. Boost circulation
Soaking in warm water with bath salts can help to increase blood circulation, which can improve overall health and wellness.
Boosting your blood flow has many therapeutic benefits for your body, as it helps deliver oxygen and key nutrients to all of your vital organs. This includes your skin, which can take on a refreshed, dewy glow. It can also have a positive impact on your overall health and well-being — reducing blood pressure, boosting your immune system, helping nerve function, and potentially lowering the risk of heart disease.
6. Relieve muscle aches and joint pain
The magnesium and sodium in a salt bath can be really beneficial for your muscles and joints. Combined with the warmth of the water, these minerals can help promote healing, reduce inflammation, relieve tight muscles, ease muscle spasms and menstrual cramps, and reduce joint pain. The buoyancy of the water can also reduce the pressure on joints, allowing for a decrease in pain and discomfort.
Regular salt baths have so many potential benefits for people suffering from chronic joint or muscle pain. Research shows that salt baths can actively improve the quality of life for people with rheumatoid arthritis, by easing stiff joints and making movement easier and less painful. All in all, soaking in a salt bath can provide a non-invasive, natural way to help relieve many kinds of pain and discomfort.
How to Use Relaxing Bath Salts
If you're ready to take a salt bath, here's how to get it just right:
- Fill your bathtub with warm water: The water should be warm, but not too hot. Aim for a temperature that is comfortable for you to soak in.
- Add the bath salts: Depending on the size of your bathtub, add a handful to a cup (50–100 grams) of bath salts to the water and stir. We recommend a natural, cruelty-free option like MotherSage Bath Salts, which are formulated with high-quality Epsom and sea salts, CBD, vitamin E, and essential oils for radically therapeutic effects.
- Soak: Climb into the bathtub and soak for at least 15 minutes to feel all of the amazing salt bath benefits.
- Rinse: After soaking, rinse off with warm water to remove any remaining salt residue.
- Hydrate: Apply a moisturiser to maintain all of the benefits for your skin. We recommend MotherSage Body Butter, which is formulated with shea butter, essential oils, and CBD to lock in moisture.
How Often to Take a Detox Bath
If you want to regularly experience the benefits of a salt bath, you can enjoy a soak a few times per week, or anything up to one per day! Generally speaking, 2–3 salt baths per week can provide all of the soothing and healing benefits you need.
If you're suffering from chronic pain and inflammation, you might find it helpful to take a salt bath every night.
The Best Ingredients for a Detox Bath
When choosing which bath salts to use (or making your own), it's important to make sure you're getting the right mix of mineral salts with other supporting ingredients like essential oils and antioxidants.
MotherSage Bath Salts are infused with the perfect mix of natural ingredients for a clean, relaxing soak with incredible health benefits. Here are the best, all-natural ingredients for bath salts:
Epsom salt
Epsom salt, otherwise known as magnesium sulfate, is a naturally occurring mineral compound made up of magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen. It's one of the best and most common ingredients in bath salts because it's known to relieve muscle tension and stress.
Sea salt
Sea salt is rich in minerals like magnesium, calcium, and potassium, and it's also a great source of micronutrients and electrolytes. Bathing in a sea salt solution can help promote healthy brain, muscle, and nerve functions for a relaxed body and mind. It's also great for your skin, as it can help relieve dry skin, tame inflammation, and promote skin healing.
CBD
CBD is a very powerful ingredient with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antimicrobial properties. It's a relatively recent addition to the world of skincare and self-care as we know it, but its use stems from decades of scientific research.
CBD is one of the ingredients that set MotherSage Bath Salts apart from the rest. We only use a purified, non-psychoactive, THC-free solution that will not get you high. Instead, CBD acts on the body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS) which regulates your pain perception, mood, appetite, sleep, memory, immune response, inflammation, and metabolism.
Bath salts made with high-quality CBD may help calm anxiety, stimulate healing, relieve aches and pains, and improve sleep health.
Lavender
Adding natural essential oils to bath salts helps create an aromatherapy experience that increases many of the bath's therapeutic benefits, particularly when it comes to stress relief. Lavender is not only an incredibly soothing scent that helps improve your sleep, but it also has antiseptic properties that help prevent infection and skin irritation.
Peppermint
Pure and natural peppermint oil is a cooling, soothing ingredient with a naturally fresh scent that will add to the calming effects of your salt bath. It can help to provide natural pain relief, calm skin irritation and inflammation, and boost your circulation. It's also a cleansing ingredient that can help clear your pores and tone your skin.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is another calming, soothing ingredient to add to your bath. It's known for its ability to ease congestion and improve your breathing, while also relieving pain and muscle tension. Eucalyptus also has antimicrobial properties, which can help kill bacteria on the skin and reduce congestion and blemishes.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is one of nature's most powerful antioxidants with amazing benefits for your skin. It works to combat the free radical damage that leads to skin ageing, and it forms an important part of your skin barrier layer (which keeps toxins out while locking moisture in).
Vitamin E is naturally healing, hydrating, protective, and soothing, and as a key ingredient in bath salts, it can help stimulate healing and recovery for a more therapeutic and effective soak.
CBD Bath Salts: The Ultimate Relaxing Experience
MotherSage Bath Salts are formulated with only the best ingredients combined with CBD to offer the most relaxing and soothing experience. By using natural, sustainable, cruelty-free ingredients, our formula promotes health and healing with every warm salt bath you take.
With specially blended essential oils, mineral salts, and CBD, this formula is expertly designed to soothe a tense and aching body, clear your mind from stress, and promote glowing, youthful skin.
Try them out in your next salt bath to discover the natural healing power of our award-winning CBD skincare products first-hand.
If you're curious about our ingredients and the research behind them, you can learn more about CBD here.