Himalayan Pink Salt brings a beautiful color to bath products. It can be used to speckle bath bombs, star in bath salts, color body scrubs, or steal the show in a layered milk bath. The salt gets its gorgeous mottled array of warm pinks and reds from natural mineral content. Harvested by hand and carefully screened for impurities, it is among the finest salts available for natural skin care.
Himalayan Pink Salt is packed with more than eighty beneficial trace minerals, like Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, Iron and Copper. When added to bath formulations, it is believed to help encourage circulation, balance skin, and even soothe skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis.
We’ve layered this amazing ingredient with a blend of Whole Milk Powder and Whole Oat Powder. That blend is scented using Dendritic Salt and Geranium Essential Oil, and colored with a scoop of Coral Kaolin Clay. Milk makes a wonderful bath product, using its natural lactic acids to smooth and soften skin. Oat Flour adds a soothing benefit to the mix, while Coral Kaolin lends a lovely color and gentle detoxification.
You can customize this recipe easily by swapping the Geranium Essential Oil for any that you prefer. Coconut Milk Powder or Goat’s Milk Powder may also be substituted for the Whole Milk Powder.
Himalayan Pink Salt Milk Bath
Makes three 8-ounce (240 ml) jars
Ingredients
- 2 cups (480 ml) Whole Milk Powder
- 1/2 cup (120 ml) Himalayan Pink Salt, Fine
- 1/4 cup (60 ml Dendritic Salt
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) Colloidal Oat Flour, Fine, USP
- 1 tablespoon (15 ml) Coral Kaolin Clay
- 15 drops Geranium Essential Oil
Directions
- Combine dendritic salt and essential oil in a large mixing bowl and stir together until smooth.
- Add milk powder and oat flour, stirring well to combine.
- Divide mixture into two bowls, with 1 1/2 cups (300 ml) in each.
- Add kaolin clay to one bowl and mix well.
- Spoon the pink mixture into three jars, divided evenly. Tap gently to settle powder.
- Spoon the white mixture into three jars, divided evenly. Tap gently to settle powder.
- Top each jar with 1/3 of the Himalayan pink salt. Secure lids.
Usage & Packaging
- Himalayan Pink Salt Milk Baths look lovely in glass jars. Try layering them in our 8 ounce Flint Jars with White Lids. They may also be packaged in PET Jars or Cello Bags.
- Milk Baths should remain fresh in jars for at least six months.
- To use, simply pour contents of one jar into bath water. Salts and powders will dissolve.
Thanks for sharing this amazing bath salt recipe. Though I have been using edible Himalayan salt in cooking for quite a long time now but I never used it as bath salt. I am definitely going to try this as bath salt and will tell you the results. Recently I have also bought Himalayan salt lamps from ittefaqco. These lamps are also very good just like the edible salt.
Hi Jennifer, we are so happy to hear you enjoyed this post! Keep us posted on how you like the formulation once you give it a try.
Love your beautiful recipe. I feel it would be proved to be advantageous for my skin. Although I have experience of Himalayan salt bar. Now I will pursue for this recipe.
Thank you, Betty! Please let us know how you like the recipe when you do.
Do you recommend adding Polysorbate 80 to this recipe because of the essential oils being used? If so, approximately how much Polysorbate would you use?
Hello Judi, Great question! You can certainly add polysorbate to this formulation to help disperse the essential oil in your bath water. Polysorbate 20 is best for this type of dispersion, and would be used at a 1:1 ratio; equal parts of polysorbate to essential oil. Polysorbate 80 will also work at 1:2 ratio (1 part polysorbate to 2 parts essential oil), and is typically best with dispersing colorants, as well.