Aromatherapy Bath Salts - Healing and Therapeutic

Aromatherapy Bath Salt - Bathing in Ancient Wisdom

Dead Sea salts are healing substances in themselves. When they are combined with essential oils for fragrant aromatherapy bath salts, you are bathing in a powerful healing treatment that is age old. Salt contains minerals and have an alkalizing effect on the body. Soaking in aromatherapy bath salt promotes the release of toxins and acidic waste from system. Bathing in aromatherapy salts is good for infections, psoriasis, eczema, other skin disorders, arthritis and relaxation in general. What makes Dead Sea salts wonderful and therapeutic? Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, found fisherman's hands benefit from salty seawater. Salt lessens the spread of infection and promotes pain relief. Cell rejuvenation through the use of salt, induces a healthy recipe of minerals, blood, water and toxins. Anytime toxins are released from the system it is healthy for the body.

Salts have been used in bathing since history was recorded. Chinese folklore speaks of discovering salt, and Egyptian recordings go back as far as 1450 B.C. Salt has always been part of religious ceremonies symbolizing purity. In a Buddhist tradition, salt was thought to repel evil spirits. This is where the tradition of throwing salt over the shoulder comes into play. In 1933, the Dalai Lama was buried on a bed of salt. In America, the Onondaga Indians boiled brine from salt springs in New York. Boiling brine was done on a large scale by the 1800's.

In Feng Shui and space clearing, salt is used to neutralize the energies of spaces. If you want to clarify a room, sprinkle salt in the four corners of that room with the intention of neutralizing the energies in the space.

Bathe in aromatic Dead Sea salts for a healthy, relaxed body and a soothed spirit or choose Epsom salts from the store and allow your cares to melt away.

See Also: Aromatherapy Gifts • Aromatherapy Oils • Bath Bombs