Custom Homemade Bath Salts (Extremely Easy!) – Vegangela (2024)

This is our first Christmas home after living abroad for the past 3 years and I thought it would be nice to make a few homemade gifts for family members that we’ll be spending time with over the holidays. I’ve packaged up some Maple Spiced Pecans for the guys, and I decided to make something special for the moms, mother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, and grandmas on our list: homemade bath salts.

I looked for sugar scrub recipes online but was worried about their shelf life, so I fell back on this trusty recipe from a couple years back. Bath salts have taken on a whole new meaninglately, but I promise that these will do nothing but induce relaxation and calm 🙂

I found these cute little jars at the dollar store, but upcycled jam and Mason jars with painted lids would be just as nice.

The addition of a high-quality essential oil is what makes these bath salts especially luxurious. I chose grapefruit oil because of its many benefits including:

• Its aroma – it’s refreshing, uplifting and energizing
• Its antiseptic properties – it’s disinfecting and detoxifying
• Its skin benefits – it’s been known to help withcellulite and stretch marks

Notes – Homemade Bath Salts

• Do your research and choose a skin-appropriate essential oil.
• I avoid chemical-laden beauty products so I don’t add artificial coloring to my bath salts.
• Beware of naturally-derived dyes, as they could contain animal by-products such ascochineal.
• The recipe produces 6 cups of bath salts, enough to fill approximately 6 of these small jars.

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Fun little gifts for the bath-loving people in your life 🙂