Get started early on a Holiday gift to give friends/family/teachers etc. DIY Tub Teas are a lovely and very inexpensive gift that you can cobble together very quickly.
A Tub Tea is a tea bag filled with natural ingredients such as herbs, dried flowers and essential oils, which infuse your bath with therapeutic goodness.
Soothing Chamomile Oatmeal
INGREDIENTS
- 6 Fill-able tea bags. Find them on Amazon or in a tea/coffee shop
- 1 cup old fashioned oats**
- ½ cup dried chamomile or calendula flowers*
- 20 drops chamomile essential oil
* calendula is very soothing and softening for dry/irritated skin
** Oats can save your skin because of the fats and sugars they contain. The fats are lubricants, which help dry skin. The website Real Age notes the polysaccharides — basically complex sugars — in the oats leave a “gelatinous” residue in bathwater and on your skin, also combating dryness. Oatmeal proteins work to protect your skin in general. A 2010 study, published in the “Journal of Drugs in Dermatology,” found substances called avenanthramides block inflammatory compounds and histamines, thus helping to soothe skin that’s become itchy.
DIRECTIONS
- Blend the oats until they resemble fine sand.
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
- Use a teaspoon to fill each bag.
- Tie drawstring tight.
Lavender for Soothing Aches and Pains
INGREDIENTS
The Epsom salts contain magnesium, which will soothe and relax your muscles, and the lavender is relaxing and calming.
- 6 Fill-able tea bags
- 1 cup Epsom Salts
- ½ cup dried lavender flowers
- 20 drops lavender essential oil
DIRECTIONS
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl.
- Use a tsp to fill each bag. Draw string tight.
To use: Run a bath, and as it’s running drop a couple of bags in. Keep them in for the duration of the bath. When you are done, you can discard, or compost them!
For a gift: Place in a fancy tin, a little wooden box or a decorated mason jar.
