Epsom Salt and Its Diverse Benefits

Epsom salt, which is actually not a salt, but a chemical compund, incorporates sulfate and magnesium and has taken its name from a saline spring in Epsom from Surrey, England. Apart from the  pharmaceutical use, it can be of great help in every house and for every woman in her daily beauty routine.

Let’s see some tips and tricks for using Epsom salt.

Beauty

• Exfoliate your skin using a mix of liquid soap and Epsom salt, in order to offer it a great aspect and eliminate any dead cells. Use this for a softer skin on hands, feet and even on your face. When preparing the face exfoliator, be sure to use only a teaspoon of Epsom salt.
• Your hair also has a lot to gain if you add Epsom salt to your conditioner. Try combining equal parts of the two ingredients, warm the mixture in a pan, swipe it through the hair and leave it to act 20 minutes, then rinse. Your hair volume will definitely improve.
• Moreover, Epsom salt can be used with shampoo, if you want to eliminate the excess oil from your hair. Just add some of this salt in your shampoo bottle and wash your hair as usual.

Health

• For 30 minutes of relaxation, you can dissolve Epsom salt in warm water and take a bath at the end of the day. The skin will absorb the Epsom immediately, which will lead to the relieving of tension from the muscles and just like that, the stress vanishes. A headache can also go away, by following the trick above.
• Another common use of the Epsom is as laxative. It helps with constipation, due to its composition of magnesium. Therefore, you can dissolve just one teaspoon of Epsom salt into a glass of warm water and drink it. But be aware, this should not be repeated more than once a day.
• If you need to get rid of ugly bruises, just apply a mix of 2 tablespoons of Epsom salt with a small amount of water on the place of the bruise.
• In order to remove a painful splinter, you only need to soak the affected part of the body in Epsom and warm water. After a few minutes, magnesium sulfate will start reducing the inflammation around the lesion and the splinter will become easier to remove.

Household

• Your bathroom will shine if you add Epsom salt to your regular cleaning products. This mixture can be applied to extremely dirty and stained surfaces in the bathroom, but also in the kitchen. Let it soak for 2 minutes and then scrub.
• This chemical compound is also great for your plants. It will enhance their growth, with only 1 tablespoon added to the garden soil. Moreover, Epsom salt will protect plants from unwanted bugs.

The wonders of Epsom salt are numerous and you can use it in several manners for your health, beauty and cleaning habits. Sometimes, you do not need expensive products, just useful information. So, try these tricks and see how they work.