Create A At-Home Spa, Soothe Sore Muscles after a workout and improve your health with Epsom salt. Many experts recommend Epsom Salt as a beauty product, after exercise or to boost your body’s levels of magnesium. Epsom Salt – actually magnesium sulfate – is easy to use and easy to find in your local pharmacy or supermarket and it costs just a few bucks.
Pampering for many families is spa trips and expensive bath beads, but Epsom Salt can be used to create the ultimate at-home spa, and it’s something several experts recommend to look and feel better (http://www.goop.com/newsletter/33/en). A relaxing bath or exfoliating treatment will leave your skin radiant and glowing.
Tips include:
Glowing skin exfoliating treatment: Place Epsom salt in your hand, dampen it and massage it into your skin.
Microdermabrasion Facial: Mix 1/2 TSP of Epsom Salt into cleansing cream for a deep-pore cleansing. Massage on skin. Rinse with cool water. Pat dry.
Bathtime Bliss: Add two cups of Epsom Salt to the water in a standard-sized bathtub; soak for at least 12 minutes, three times weekly. For an extra treat, add a few drops of eucalyptus oil for a refreshing scent.
Pedicure Perfection: Dissolve a half cup of Epsom Salt into two quarts of warm water. Pour the water into a container and soak your bare feet for fifteen to twenty minutes. For an extra treat, add a few drops of eucalyptus oil for a refreshing scent. Massage the entire foot with Epsom Salt concentrating on the heels and ankles to remove any dry, rough spots. Then, rinse your feet off with clean tap water and dry them thoroughly.
Homemade bath crystals: Mix two cups of Epsom Salt with a few drops of fragrance to create a custom bath crystal. Add a few drops of food coloring or 1/2 TSP of glycerin if you like. Store in an air-tight container.
After exercising
Epsom Salt– actually magnesium sulfate – can help people maintain optimum levels of both magnesium and sulfate. Sulfate helps form joint proteins and helps keep joints healthy, flushes toxins and improves absorption of nutrients. Magnesium helps regulate the activity of more than 300 enzymes in the body, performing more functions than almost any other mineral. Among the benefits: magnesium helps reduce inflammation to relieve pain and muscle cramps, helps muscles and nerves function properly and helps prevents artery hardening and blood clots.
Tips include:
To ease muscle pain and fading bruises. Add two cups of Epsom Salt to warm water in a standard-sized bathtub (double the Epsom Salt for an oversized garden tub) and bathe three times weekly, soaking for at least 12 minutes. Also can be used to make compresses.
To soothe feet aching from a tough workout or a long day, add a cup of Epsom Salt to a tub of warm water and soak them.
For health
Experts say by soaking in Epsom salt, not only will you help burn away stress, you’ll also make your body healthier by boosting your levels of magnesium, sulfur and sulfate. Here’s more information from interviews with renowned experts:
http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/news/articles/are_you_missing_an_important_nutrient.php
http://www.epsomsaltcouncil.org/news/articles/doctors_tips_on_magnesium_deficiencies.php
http://epsomsaltcouncil.org/news/articles/the-doctor-of-the-future-says-many-americans-need-more-magnesium.php
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