What's Cookin' This Week: In the Bathtub
Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate - Epsom Salts! Epsom Salt Soak (not really a recipe, just passing along the relaxation) The recipe: ½ cup to 1 cup Epsom salts (depending on the size of your tub and depth of your bathwater) ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 That’s it. Sprinkle the salt into the bathtub as it fills and mix. Soak for at least 15 minutes – so bring a magazine, the newspaper, some music, or a good friend (a really, really good friend) and enjoy! Be sure to rinse with fresh water or you’ll have a very tacky residue on your skin. I prefer to keep my hair out of the water, or only give it a quick dunk and then wash out the salt. Get your Epsom salts at a drugstore (pharmacy, druggist, chemist), avoid using the kind you buy at a garden shop. The Nitty-Gritty ©Science-y Hair Blog 2013 Prolonged exposure to very warm water is drying to the skin because the components of the top layers of the skin which retain moisture are water soluble. But there are those days when sore muscles and join...