There are a few ways to create your own spa experience at home with homemade products. One way to relax is to soak in a warm bath tub with bath aromatic teas.
Bath teas are a great way to add scents and health benefits to your soaking tub so that you can relax and rejuvenate. Depending on the ingredients, there are even some health benefits that you can reap from using bath teas regularly.
And the cool thing is that bath teas are simple to make at home to enjoy yourself. Once you get good at making bath teas, you can start to even sell them to friends and family as a side hustle.
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What is Bath Tea?
Bath tea, also known as a tub tea, is exactly what it sounds like. It is a tea sachet that is filled with herbs, Epsom salts, and other scented ingredients. Just throw one in a warm bath to let it steep like a normal tea bag.
Tub tea uses a pocket of fine mesh, known as a sachet, to contain herbs, salts, and flowers. As the warm water from a bath soaks through the sachet, the ingredients start to dissolve and create a scented “tea”.
Many tub teas and bath teas use Epsom salt or sea salt to provide additional health benefits. Epsom salt is known to help with soothing aching muscles, improving skin conditions, and moisturize skin.
Bath teas are a great way to relax in a warm tub with some aromatherapy and other health benefits. Sachets are little packets of tea ingredients that are easy to throw in a warm tub for your next spa day.
Bath Tea Benefits
Bath tea is a natural way to improve your overall health and well-being. By adding herbs, oats, dried flowers, and Epsom salt to warm bath water, you can gain numerous benefits.
Some health benefits include reducing inflammation, helping to balance your skin, and improving rashes. They can also help detoxify skin, repair sun damage, reduce dandruff, and treat acne.
With the power of herbs and the soothing effects of warm water, you can enjoy the relaxing aromatherapy benefits of a bath tea. To make your bath even more enjoyable, you can add essential oils to enhance the experience and create a customized bath tea that is specifically tailored to meet your needs.
Essential oils have a variety of different properties and scents that can be beneficial to your mental and physical well-being. For example, lavender can help improve sleep while lemon can help improve your attitude.
How to Make Bath Tea
There are a few ways to make a bath or tub tea, depending on your preference. They all start with creating the herbal mix that will become the bath tea once hot water is added.
To make a simple bath tea, mix together equal parts of dried herbs, flowers, or fruit with equal parts of oats and Epsom salt to make a powder, and then add it to a hot bath. You can also add essential oils to the mixture to enhance its therapeutic effects.
Once you have your tea mix, you’ll need a way to strain it from the hot bath water, similar to a tea bag in a cup. This can be done by using an unbleached muslin bag or even just a coffee filter.
Here are three different ways to make a bath tea.
1. Simmer and Steep Herbs
Create your herbal bath tea mix and then simmer them in hot water for about 15 minutes. Once it has completely steeped, strain the mixture using cheesecloth to remove the herbs and flowers. The infused tea liquid that is left can then be poured into a warm bath and enjoyed.
2. Make Bath Tea Bags
This is a good self-contained option if you are selling your bath tea. Put your tea mix into a small tea sachet bag made of muslin or cheesecloth. Once your tea bag is full, just sew it up or tie off the end so that the ingredients can’t come out.
To use, just add the bath tea bag to a warm bath and let it steep for 10 to 15 minutes. For best results, hold the tea bag under the faucet of warm water as the tub is filled.
3. Use a Coffee Filter
If you are making a bath tea at home, you can use a coffee maker to create your own tub tea. Just add your herbal mix to a traditional coffee maker with a filter, like you would with coffee. Brew the tea so that the hot water passes through the mixture and into a cup. Pour the hot tea into a bath tub and enjoy the scents!
Bath Tea Ingredients
Here are some of the most common bath tea ingredients that you can use in your herbal mix. We also include more recipes below to get you started making your own soothing tub tea.
Epsom Salts
Epsom salts, also known as magnesium sulfate, are great for bath teas since they help to relax muscles and relieve pain. This is a great base to include in your herbal mix when creating a tub tea.
Dead Sea Salt
Dead Sea salt is salt that has been taken from the Dead Sea and they have some great health benefits, similar to Epsom salts. They tend to have higher magnesium content and are a great addition to help with hydrating and repairing skin.
Pink Himalayan Salt
Pink Himalayan salt is easy to identify from it’s pink color but it also helps with healing and exfoliating skin. Use it as an additive to your bath tea to replenish electrolytes, relax, and rejuvenate while soaking in a bath tub.
Rolled Oats
Rolled oats are another popular ingredient for bath teas since they create a mild foam that has a cleansing benefit. They are great for moisturizing and protecting skin while also soothing many common skin inflammation conditions.
Dried Chamomile
Dried chamomile is a flower that can help to reduce inflammation, promotes wound healing, and reduces red skin. Chamomile can also help to relax muscles and help reduce the number and severity of muscle cramps.
Calendula
Calendula is a herb that helps to improve healing and works as an anti-inflammatory agent. This work wells in a bath tea to help improve skin conditions.
Essential Oils
In addition to herbs, flowers, and salts, it is also possible to add essential oils to bath teas to give it additional scents. Essential oils come in a variety of flavors and are great at adding additional benefits with just a few drops. Pick the scents that smell the best with your herbs and have additional health benefits.
Other Anti-Inflammatory Herbs
There are several other known herbs that are great at reducing inflammation, healing wounds, works as an antiseptic, and promotes skin repair. All of these work well in bath teas:
- Common Checkweed
- Echinacea
- Comfrey
- Green tea
- Lavender
- Red Clover
- Plantain
- Yarrow
- Rose Petals
- Peppermint
Besides salts, herbs, flowers, and essential oils, you’ll also need something to package your bath tea in. For some teas, you may decide to store the liquid tea and this will require some sort of glass jar. Large mason jars work well for this since they are glass and seal tightly.
If you are using powder, smaller mason jars also make great storage vessels for your bath tea powder. They can be easily transported and branded, making them easier to sell, as well.
Finally, another option is to put your herbal mix into a cheesecloth tea bag and then seal it in a plastic bag so that it doesn’t dry out.
Three Bath Tea Recipes to Make at Home
Here are a few bath tea recipes to get you started creating your own. For all of these, you can adjust the base, herbs, and essential oils to create your own custom tea.
1. Anti-Inflammatory Relaxing Bath Tea Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups Epsom salts
- 1/3 oz dried sweet birch bark
- 1/3 oz dried ginger
- 1/3 oz dried yarrow
- 1 quart of water
Directions
- Bring the birch bark and ginger in the water in a pan on the stovetop to a boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add the yarrow and then simmer for an additional 10 minutes.
- Strain the herbs through a cheesecloth or tea strainer to leave just the liquid.
- Add the tea to a warm bath tub full of water and then add in the Epsom salts. Mix gently to allow everything to mix and dissolve.
If you are selling these bath teas, there are two ways to package this. One option is that you could create the liquid tea and put it in a sealed jar to add to a bathtub later.
Another option is to mix the dry herbs and salt together in a fine muslin or cheesecloth sachet bag. This can then be placed into a warm bath tub to steep when you’re ready.
2. Dry Skin Bath Tea Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Pink Himalayan Salt
- 1/2 cup ground rolled oats
- 1/2 cup powdered milk or coconut milk
- 1/2 cups dried rose petals
- 15 to 20 drops of lavender, jasmine, geranium, carrot seed, or chamomile essential oils. Feel free to use a combination of these, as well.
Directions
- Combine the all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl and stir well.
- Add the essential oils of your choice and continue to stir well.
- Once satisfied with the smell, put into a glass jar to preserve it’s fresheness.
- To use, put two to four tablespoons into a muslin bag or tea bag. Hang on your tub nozzle as it fills and let the hot water run over it.
To sell this, you can sell the loose powdered mixture in jars or in sealed muslin bags. If you are using muslin tea bags, you’ll want to put them in a plastic bag to make sure no powder is lost during handling.
3. Wildflower Bath Tea Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Dead Sea Salt
- 5 tbsp rolled oats
- 2 tbsp dried chamomile
- 1 tbsp soda
- 1 to 2 tbsp oil, such as coconut, olive oil, or sweet almond
- 1 to 2 tbsp dried flowers, like calendula, lavender, or rose petals
- 2 drops geranium essential oil
- 3 drops lavender essential oil
- 2 drops lemon balm essential oil
Directions
- Mix the dry ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
- Add the essential oils and stir until well mixed.
- Put the bath tea powder into small mason jars or muslin bags.
- Add the oil to directly to the bath water when ready to use and then hang the bath tea bag on the tub nozzle. Let the hot water run over the bag until the bath is full and scented enough.
How to Make Money Selling Bath Teas
Now that you know the basics of how to make bath teas, you may be thinking about how to start a side hustle selling them. By creating popular bath teas that smell good and help people to relax, it can be easy to start selling them.
The first step is to perfect the bath teas that you’d like to sell. Having a strong product is always important to being successful in business and it is no different when you’re creating a spa product.
Test a few different variations to see what looks visually attractive, smells great, and has other health benefits. When you think you have a winner, try making a few times to make sure you know the exact recipe and can replicate it in the future.
From there, you’ll need some sort of platform to start selling on. This can be simply going to local craft fairs or farmer’s markets to sell your bath tea. If you want to sell online, you’ll either need a website or be able to sell on social media sites, like Facebook or Etsy.
If you’re looking for help getting started with your spa business, check out our Hobby to Business Pro eBook that has a lot of great information on being successful
Good luck and have fun!
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