I love bath stuff – I can’t even imagine having a bath in plain old water any more! But, you can pay anything from £CRAZY to £CHEAP and when you find the latter that feels like the former, then it’s an instant win.
Bath salts are relegated to the ‘old-fashioned’ corner of the chemists, but I love some decent salts – not the old, highly perfumed, turn your bath pink type, but proper salts that ease and soothe achy muscles and make you feel as though you’re doing something good for yourself.
So, Dr Salts is a bit of a find (although the name makes me think of that old Eastenders doctor… !) – this variant, with rose, is a curious blend of rose and salt but if you imagine it as a new variant from Jo Malone – Sea Breeze & Rock Rose or similar (hey, don’t steal that JM!) it puts you more in the mood of the thing. Dr Salts is made from 100% Dead Sea salts which contains the highest concentration of minerals in the world (apparently), mixed up with aromatherapy essential oils – in this case, rose, but there are many variants.
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One of the reasons that people use salts to ease achy muscles is that they contain bromides, but you’ll also find magnesium, sodium, calcium, potassium, idonine and chlorine. I have to say though, I didn’t think that you can absorb salts via the skin, but you’re either a believer or or you aren’t when it comes to these. All I can say from personal experience is that it is a better bath with them than without and I do find a mineral salt bath highly soothing.
At £7 for huge bag, Dr Salts is available in Waitrose and Sainsburys – kind of perfect placement really, when you think of all the heavy lifting and bending that the weekly shop involves. It’s a big recommend from me.
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I saw these in Tesco the other day. The packaging caught my attention because it looked like something from Breaking Bad! Next time I’ll have a closer look because they sound fab, and great value too. Win win!
I spotted a rather large collection of goodies from Dr Salts yesterday in my local TK Maxx for only £3.99 including the salts above plus the plain varieties and I believe the Himalayan Bath Salts as well.
Thought I’d mention it as I know we all love a bargain!!
It’s pretty inexpensive to get a 2kg bag of plain epsom salts at any drug or grocery store here in Canada. I add a cup of those, a scoop of baking soda, and a few drops of essential oil to my bath when I’m bathing on the cheap. Nice thing too is it doesn’t leave a grimey ring or stain your tub! Nothing more un-relaxing than having to wash the tub after your nice relaxing soak, so the Mr. doesn’t fall in the morning or freak out that the tub is orange.
I’ve just suggested that very thing over on Twitter – easy to make your own if you want to. Advantage of that is that you get exactly the fragrance you want. x
Oooh I definitely want to try! I purchased the Himalayan detox bath salts from Cult Beauty and paid about £35!! These are definitely a cheaper alternative. xx
alicekatex ♥