How to Make Lavender Dead Sea Salt Scrub

Lavender flowers can be ground up with the salts in a food processor.

Save money and be sure the ingredients in your salt scrub really are natural and pure by making your own. Lavender oil has aromatherapeutic qualities and can help relieve anxiety and stress and induce relaxation. It is also soothing to the skin. Pure Dead Sea salt and lavender oil can be purchased at some specialty beauty-supply stores or stores that specialize in all-natural products. This homemade spa product will become a favorite way to pamper yourself.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• 3/4 cup Dead Sea salt, fine grain
• 3/4 cup sea salt
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• Lavender essential oil
• Glass canning jars
• 2 tbsp. lavender flowers, ground (optional)

1. Mix sea salt and Dead Sea salt well to combine. Add olive oil one tbsp. at a time, stirring the oil into the salt thoroughly.

2. Add eight to 12 drops of lavender essential oil and, if desired, the ground lavender flowers to cover the scent of the olive oil and enhance healing qualities. Stir the oil and flowers until well combined.

3. Once the salt scrub is well mixed, pour it in a glass canning jar and store the salt scrub near the bathtub or shower with the lid on.

4. To use, scrub the salt mixture directly onto your skin, paying special attention to dry or cracked skin, and then rinse.

Tips & Warnings

• Add more salt if the scrub is too oily; add more oil if it is too dry. Test the scrub to find the consistency you prefer.

• A Dead Sea salt scrub makes a nice gift. Simply tie a ribbon and some dried lavender flower stems around the jar to decorate.

• Use other types of oil if you prefer.

• Do not use the salt scrub after shaving your legs. It could sting and irritate small cuts.

References

• Salt Works: Making Bath Salts
• Gardens Ablaze: Medicinal Uses of Lavender