{"id":5,"date":"2008-09-14T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T19:42:46","slug":"sherrins-do-it-yourself-herbal-or-spice-salt-baths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/sherrins-do-it-yourself-herbal-or-spice-salt-baths\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherrin\u2019s Do-It Yourself Herbal, Spice and Everything Nice Salt Baths"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"blog\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"30\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\n<p class=\"blogSubject\">Sherrin\u2019s Do-It Yourself Herbal or Spice Salt Baths\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blogContent\">Making your own herbal or spice salt bath can be easy, creative and inexpensive; in fact you probably have items you can use that already in your kitchen.<br \/>\nSherrin&#8217;s recipe:<br \/>\nIngredients<br \/>\n\u2022 1 cup Pink Himalayan Salts<br \/>\n\u2022 Tea (loose or in bags) or kitchen spices<br \/>\n\u2022 Bath water<\/p>\n<p>Directions<br \/>\n1. You can purchase Pink Himalayan Salts. Add to warm bath water, mix till dissolved.\u00a0<br \/>\n2. Boil 1 cup of water in the kitchen while the salt is dissolving.\u00a0<br \/>\n3. Add:<br \/>\na. Your choice of herbal teabags, cover and steep 10 minutes. Ie. Chamomile (relaxing), lavender (antispasmodic), crushed peppermint leaves (cooling, analgesic).\u00a0<br \/>\nb. Half teaspoon of lightly crushed juniper berries (analgesic).\u00a0<br \/>\nc. Your choice of a 1\/4teaspoon of Sage (sedative), Rosemary (analgesic) and\/or Sweet Marjoram (uplifting).<br \/>\n4. Simply pour the steeped concoction right into your bath water and enjoy your soak. Temperature test first please.<br \/>\nYou can buy Pink Himalayan Salt from Susan at the 14th St, NYC at the Green Market W, F, Sat or her website at:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.candleladysusans-himalayanrocksalt.com\/himalayan_rock_salt_products.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy loose herbs from Flower Power or Penny&#8217;s Herb Co. in Manhattan:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.flowerpower.net\/home\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.pennysherbco.com\/<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Making your own herbal or spice salt bath can be easy, creative and inexpensive&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,50,4],"tags":[38,35,47,39,37,34,42,43,48,49,36,45,44,40,46,41],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-personal-time","category-how-to","category-wellness","tag-antispasmodic","tag-bath-salts-101","tag-chamomile","tag-cooling-analgesic","tag-herbs","tag-how-to-make-your-own","tag-inexpensive-personal-time","tag-juniper-berries","tag-lavender","tag-peppermint-leaves","tag-quick-and-easy-do-it-yourself","tag-rosemary","tag-sage","tag-sedative","tag-sweet-marjoram","tag-uplifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/touchfitness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}