How to Use Sea Salt for Skin Care

The Dead Sea, famous for its natural salt content, is often referred to as a fountain of youth. Natural sea salts are among the greatest ingredients for skin care, as they improve circulation, stimulate cell growth, exfoliate dead skin, reduce swelling, itching and pain and offer a number of essential minerals which absorb through the skin.

Things You'll Need

• Fine grain sea salts
• Large grain sea salts

Instructions

1. Use sea salts to help draw toxins out of your skin, leaving you feeling clean and refreshed and your skin feeling soft and supple. Make a paste by combining water and fine grain sea salt and them massage the paste onto your skin before showering. Leave for 1 to 5 minutes and then bathe as usual, rinsing away toxins. This sea salt rub is also fantastic for those with eczema, psoriasis, chicken pox or other skin irritations.

2. Soften tough skin with a moisturizing sea salt scrub. Combine 2 cups of large grain sea salts, 3/4 cups of water and 4 tbsp. of sweet almond oil, storing your scrub in a glass jar with a tight fitting lid. Wet the skin and massage the scrub over your entire body, or on problem dry areas. Rinse the skin with warm water and repeat daily.

3. Moisturize, fight wrinkles, combat acne and exfoliate the face with a gentle sea salt facial scrub. Simply combine 1 tbsp. of fine grain sea salts and two or three drops of lavender essential oil and massage gently into your face and neck. Rinse with warm water and then apply a light, oil-free moisturizer.

4. Make your own custom sea salts for pampering yourself or to give as gifts. In a glass jar with tight fitting lid, combine 2 cup of sea salts, 1/2 cup of baking soda and 20 to 30 drops of your favorite essential oil or a combination of oils. Add one quarter of the jar's contents to a warm bath and soak up the healing minerals found in sea salts.