You can create a wide assortment of aromatherapy oils for the bath by adding essential oils to the Nourishing Bath Oil Blend below, or to any other nut or vegetable oil of your choice. The resulting oils can also be used for massage.

Ingredients for Carrier Oil
3 oz. almond oil
1 ½ oz. olive oil
1 oz. sesame oil
1 oz. canola oil
½ oz. wheat germ oil

Use 1-2 teaspoons of Aromatherapy Bath Oil per bath. (Note: Concentrated essential oils make the carrier oil stronger, so less oil is needed for the bath.)

Aromatherapy Oils to Add
Add 15-25 drops of essential oil to the carrier oil.

Essential Oil Choices
Juniper: Know for its purifying and detoxifying ability; it works especially well with the fatty layer of the skin, a place that holds many toxins.
Lemon: Cleansing and uplifting, it stimulates the circulatory system and helps fight against infection.
Grapefruit: Works on skin problems such as cellulite and “congested” skin; helps with substance abuse, is antiviral and antibacterial.
Geranium: Stimulates the lymphatic system to release toxins.
Rosemary: Combats fluid retention, cellulite, and lymphatic congestion.

A few others that are less commonly known essential oils used for special purposes:
Helichrysum: For alcohol and drug detox; helps the liver

By Annie B. Bond, author of Homemade Detox Baths (Green Chi CAfe, LLC, 2009), and other books including the recently published True Food (National Geographic, 2010).

As I write, my feet are soaking in a tub of warm water that has been mixed with 1 cup of bentonite clay and ground herbs. The herbs send their healing aromatherapy into the air, while the clay pulls impurities out of my skin. This is a natural detox treatment alternative to expensive ionic foot baths: simple, effective, and powerfully relaxing.

This foot bath is like all of the treatments in this eBook–an easy, natural way to relax and rejuvenate as you cleanse, in the serenity of your own home.

Native peoples have rubbed their bodies in mud to detox for centuries. This foot bath is much the same idea. I love learning about these natural methods, and sharing them with others who are searching for natural alternatives.

Plus, they cost pennies in comparison to their expensive counterparts. And they work in an age-old way. I feel such a lightness after I have give myself a foot bath—the detox feeling is palpable!

All these tips and more are in my new eBook, Homemade Detox Baths, including:
- Baths to rid your body of cellulite
- Essential oils to help you detox and relax
- How to properly use Epsom salts to calm your nervous system
- The secret behind Dead Sea salts.

And, I can’t resist…with your purchase I’ll include a free eBook with fabulous formulas for fun, fizzy baths. My daughter and I have had so much fun with these formulas over the years, I hope you give them a try, too.

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That’s a price well below any commercial massage or spa treatment. The basket will introduce you to a range of relaxing and revitalizing methods—with natural clays, aromatherapy and essential oils, dry and wet skin brushing, hard copy booklet, natural bath salts, and mineral-rich seaweeds—to renew yourself physically and spiritually.

Or, the eBook is available for $6.95.

We have all experienced red, dry, itchy skin in the winter, or red, achy, sunburnt skin in the summer and immediately we rush to the store to buy intensive lotions for ultra-dry skin or bright blue “aloe vera” gel to soothe the ache, but the easiest, healthiest, and most natural way to nourish, heal, and beautify your skin, the bath, is right in your home. In this book you will discover 40 easy-to-make baths including:
• Hydrating baths for the deep winter
• Baths that fight acne
• Soothing and healing baths for psoriasis and eczema
• Baths that will bring out the natural beauty of your skin whether it is dry/oily or young/old
Bestselling author Annie B. Bond, an expert on green living, not only teaches you how to make each bath, but also teaches you how to use each bath to care for your own skin type. This guide provides you with all you need to know to naturally beautify your skin and will leaving you wanting to slide into a warm healing bath of your own.

If you’d like to know more, or to buy the eBook, see www.skincarebath.com or Green Chi Cafe’s eBooks