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DIY Bath Salts to Send Stress Away (Gift Idea for $1!)

November 16, 2015 · by Tiffany Merritt · 1 Comment

Affiliate links may be included. I am not a medical professional and no information contained in this or any other post I have written about Young Living essential oils should be misconstrued as medical advice. Please consult with a medical professional for questions about how essential oils might interact with any medication you are already taking. Essential oils have not been tested by the FDA. 

This just might be my favorite DIY gift idea with essential oils yet! You can put together some bath salts that will help someone you love send their stresses away for right around $1! Yes, indeed!

DIY bath salts

To make this relaxing blend, you need 3 ingredients and about 30 seconds. 🙂

  • 1 cup Epsom salts (find them at drug stores, too!)
  • 1/2 cup baking soda
  • 5 drops Young Living Stress Away essential oil blend

Simply combine all of the ingredients together until well combined (I find the oils will blend the best if you use your hands to mix everything together). I would recommend adding 1/4 cup to each bath.

This smells absolutely divine thanks to the blend of copaiba, lime, cedarwood, vanilla, ocotea and lavender that you can only find in Stress Away. It is one of my all-time favorite blends and the mere smell of it truly helps me calm down.

So if you are looking for a DIY gift idea that will be so appreciated by someone in your life who could use a spa-like bath experience AND if you are looking to keep your budget in check all at the same time, you can’t go wrong with this blend! Stress Away is just 12 cents/drop and Epsom salts and baking soda are both very affordable products. Just find a small mason jar with a lid or any other type of pretty glass container (I see them all the time at thrift stores), tie a ribbon around it, and there you go!

And if you are new to Young Living and need some help getting your hands on Stress Away, I’d love to help you out! I place orders once a month and allow folks who are new to the brand to order at my wholesale price. Stress Away is $29.75 plus tax and shipping for a 15 ml bottle, which contains 250 drops. That will make a heck of a lot of bath salts! 🙂

Filed Under: DIY Projects · Tagged: bath salts, diy bath salts, essential oil bath salts, essential oils, essential oils gifts, essential oils guide, essential oils uses, gift ideas, stress away, stress away bath salts, young living, young living essential oils

Easy Homemade Gift Idea: Peppermint Bath Salts (with Candy Cane Stripes!)

December 13, 2014 · by Tiffany Merritt · 1 Comment

Thanks to my essential oils mentor and friend Kayla for teaching me this easy homemade gift idea! Affiliate links included, and I only promote what I love! 

Friends if you are like me, you have been faithfully seeking out and purchasing holiday gifts for several weeks now, and yet you still have a few people not checked off your list. It’s crunch-time, and your wallet is also probably starting to be in pain, so let’s go for an easy homemade gift idea that will impress and delight your hard-to-buy-for friend or family member.

How about some refreshing peppermint bath salts with a twist…or should I say, with a stripe? 🙂

PeppermintSaltsTiff1

Ingredients:

  • epsom salt
  • baking soda
  • Young Living peppermint essential oil
  • pink himalayan salt
  • cute glass jar (my favorites are the glass milk bottles and the small hinged jars).

Directions:

In one glass bowl mix
1/2 cup epsom salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2-3 drops peppermint essential oil

In another glass bowl mix
1/3 cup pink himalayan salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 drops peppermint essential oil.
Alternate layers of white and pink salts in a cute glass jar to make candy cane striped bath salts!
easy homemade peppermint bath salts
Isn’t that cute? And as someone who is not highly skilled in the craft department, I really appreciate how easy it was, and how well-received I know it will be.
With your leftover epsom and himalayan salts, you can experiment with other essential oils to make other great bath salt varieties! If you’d like to read more about why I recommend Young Living essential oils, please check out my post on trying essential oils as a skeptic. I’ve been using these oils since February, when I honestly believed essential oils couldn’t do more than smell good, and I’ve been in love ever since!
If you are looking for other great DIY recipes with essential oils, check out the DIY shower disks for congestion and Kayla’s DIY sugar scrub and DIY bath bombs!

Filed Under: DIY Projects · Tagged: diy bath salts, epsom salt, essential oil bath salt, essential oils, essential oils gifts, essential oils guide, essential oils uses, himalayan salt, young living, young living essential oils

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