5 Benefits to Take a Salt Bath

5 reasons to take a SALT BATH

Who doesn’t love sinking into a blissfully warm bath to release the stresses and enjoy life’s simplest and best pleasure? Adding bath salts to your bath gives you so many benefits.

1. Natural+Hair Focused

Salt is earths natural product. It’s one of the best compounds to use on your skin and hair. The benefits of salt water for hair include: Salt water can exfoliate the scalp and encourage blood flow. Stimulating blood flow can help more nutrients reach the hair follicles, which can help boost hair growth. A good scalp massage can also help with this, as can a clinically proven natural hair serum.

Sea salt can work to absorb excess oil

It can calm and soothe irritated scalps

It is an excellent exfoliant, clearing the scalp of dead skin cells

Sea salt can add volume to the hair and provides a boost to the roots

It contains vitamins and minerals that contribute to hair health

It can stimulate the blood flow to your scalp and as a result, encourages hair growth

2. Detoxifying

One of the primary benefits of Epsom salt baths is that the minerals in the water are absorbed by the skin help to detoxify the skin as well as reduce irritation and swelling.

3. Magnesium

Another of the Epsom salt bath benefits is the high level of magnesium. Magnesium is best absorbed through the skin, so getting it from a bath is wonderful and relaxing. Plus a lot of us babes don’t have enough of that in our lives! So soak it up!

Magnesium is linked to:

Improving sleep

Calmness

Alleviate period pains

4. Moisturizing

Salts can actually improve the skin barrier function. This allows the skin to stay hydrated for longer. We often think that swimming in the ocean dries our skin – but actually this barrier improvement, when combined with a good body moisturizer, is one of the benefits of bathing salts.

5. Muscle aches and pains

Bath salts are known for relaxing tense muscles and reducing aches and pains. Indeed, there is some evidence that salt bath benefits extend to reducing inflammation which in turn eases pain.

This is true whether your aches are coming from pushing too hard at the gym or because your arthritis is playing up.

If you don’t have time for a bath, take a foot soak for sore and tired feet. Add a few drops of peppermint oil and your feet will thank you!