Candy Cane Bath Salts are an easy, cheap Christmas Gift Idea. Plus, if you use recycled glass jars they’re a sustainable gift too.
I prefer to buy magnesium sulphate rather than the popular Epsom salts for this recipe. I once read that Epsom salts have heavy metals in them and they can be absorbed into your skin. So, when you spend as much time as I do laying in a bath, you want to make sure it’s not doing you more harm than good.
Peppermint Wellness Essential Oil
I recommend you use Young Living’s Peppermint Wellness Essential Oil in this ready Candy Cane Bath Salts recipe to give your friends and family the added gift of wellness.
Peppermint Essential Oil is traditionally used in Aromatherapy:
- As an antipyretic to reduce body temperature;
- As an analgesic to relieve pain;to relieve toothaches;
- To decrease headache symptoms;
- To decrease the symptoms and duration of mild migraines;
- To decrease mild rheumatic aches and pains;As an antispasmodic;
- To reduce occurrence of excess intestinal wind;
- To reduce colic (wind/gas pain);
- To help reduce the symptoms and occurrence of indigestion;
- To help increase bile flow;
- To relieve nausea;
- To reduce menstruation pain;
- As a cough suppressant; and
- To relieve cough.
ALWAYS READ THE LABEL AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS FOR USE. REFER TO THE HEALTH WARNINGS BELOW. THE CLAIMS LISTED ABOVE ARE ONLY APPLICABLE FOR AUSTRALIA.
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Candy Cane Bath Salts Recipe
These candy cane bath salts are super easy to make. My girls have made them numerous times over the years to give to their teachers as Christmas presents.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom Salts)
- 1⁄2 cup Sea Salt
- 15 drops Young Living Peppermint Essential Oil
- Red food colouring
- Zip lock sandwich bags or a metal bowl
- Recycled Glass Jars
Method
- In a sandwich-size zip lock bag or a metal bowl combine one cup Epsom salts with 1⁄4 cup sea salt.
- Add the peppermint essential oil to this and set aside.
- In another sandwich size zip lock bag mix 1 cup Epsom salts with 1⁄4 cup sea salt.
- Add a few drops of red colouring at a time to the second zip lock bag of Epsom salts.
- Shaking as you go till the mix is the desired red colour of candy canes.
- In a clear jar, layer the white and red mixtures until the jar is full.
Check out our video where we show you how to make Candy Cane Bath Salts
Fore more great Handmade Christmas Ideas download a copy of my free e-book Handmade Christmas Gifts with Essential Oils.
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