Spa, Roman Baths and Dry Skin Recipe

“Desert Salt” is a common ingredient in many Spa Exfoliation Products. It softens skin, removes dead skin and eliminates toxins. You might already have it sitting in a green box in your laundry room. It’s simply 20 Mule Team Borax. If it’s not there, try looking in the laundry aisle at the grocery store – it’s the one with horses on it. (I think they’ve removed the horses now.) Salt, and Epsom Salts particularly, are very good for your skin.

Here, I will give you a recipe for a smooth, exfoliating rub that will leave your skin glowing and soft. It’s cheap and very easy to make. Expensive spa treaments are all the rage. You can take a public “mud bath” at the Standard Hotel Spa’s Mud Lounge in Miami, Florida with OTHER people. This recipe will help you avoid all of that public humiliation. (Wait! I do do that. I do that every time I go out to dinner with my kids. I usually wear enough food and spilled juice on me that it qualifies as a mud bath.)

(Before you start, sprinkle some baking soda in the bottom of the tub – it will absorb any of the oil you drop and keep you from slipping.)Recipe for Dry Skin

• 1 cup Epsom Salts
• 1/2 cup 20 Mule Team Borax
• ½ cup Olive Oil always in a glass bottle. This Book explains that the plastic reacts with the oil and creates some nasty toxins.
• 10 drops Essential Oils use the real thing, Not perfume.
• Rub it In, and let the grainy salt crystals polish off the dead skin, so the oil can penetrate through your skin. And yes, the essential oils are like medicine. Yes, you and your bathroom will smell like heaven.



For a list of great smelling essential oil combinations, click here and here (also a bathbomb recipe) , here, here, and here.

Keep the leftover oil and salt mixture in a jar in your refrigerator. Pull it out whenever your heels hurt, you need to feel pampered, or you want to get your skin ready for your swimsuit. And, here is an informative article about the properties of essential oils, and how to use them to clean your house — they’re great disenfectants. Do you want more recipes? Try looking here, The Complete Guide to the Use of Oils in Aromatherapy and here, The Enchanted Bath: Bath Rituals and Recipes.
Do-it-yourself-spa treatments, according to The Wall Street Journal is the $9.7 billion Spa industry’s latest move to attract new customers by lowering costs by putting more of the work in your hands. Mr. Andre Balazs, who Laura Landro of the WSJ interviewed, operates the Standard, and says, “The goal is to make the spa an integral part of life, like the baths were to the Romans or the sauna was to the Finns.”

So tell me, I ‘d love to know. Would you? Could you? In a bath? In a Patio? In Public? With Men?

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