Herbal Bath Teas

As an alternative to bath bags, you can brew a herb infusion and (when cooled) pour this into the bath. Use arround 2 cups dried herbs to 600ml boiling water.

For fragrance, use sweet-scented herbs like rose, lavender, meadowsweet, violet, jasmine, carnation, honeysuckle or rose geranium. Combine these with spicy herbs (chamomile, eau-de-cologne mint, clary sage, lovage, rosemary and lemon balm). For soft skin, use cleansing, soothing ones - chickweed, sage, marsmallow, marigold, pansy, apple mint, spearmint, elderflower, redclover, comfrey or fennel seed.