DIY Shower Melts: Spice Up Your Bath Routine

Shower melts can be a part of good bath and self-care routine to indulge your senses with aromatherapy essential oils and floral waters. Shower melts can be used for several reasons. So it is always important to have them in hand.

Why Use Shower Melts?

Shower melts can be infused with different essential oils, essential oil blends, herbal-infused oils or floral waters. These botanical extracts can be used for various purposes such as

• Relaxation: Shower melts can be crafted to help your sore body muscles relax during your bath routine. Using essential oils like lavender essential oil, Roman chamomile essential oil, sweet orange essential oil, neroli essential oil and basil essential oil or their blends can help to relax and enjoy soaking your skin.

• Elevate your mood: Another important advantage you can benefit from using shower melts in your bath routine is that you can boost your mood after a long day of hustling and bustling with life. Some of these shower melt infusions will include thyme essential oil, tea tree oil, lavender essential oil and lemon essential oil or their essential oil blends.

• Soothe common cold and mild headaches: Adding your shower melts with essential oils that can relieve you from mild headaches common cold or sore throat symptoms while soaking your body in warm water with few bars of shower melts thrown in. Including peppermint, clove, ginger or eucalyptus essential oils.

• Sweet smelling skin: Shower melts can improve your skin scent even after you get out of bathtub. Your skin will smell good. You can use essential oil scents you want from floral notes of jasmine essential oil to citrusy notes like tangerine essential oil to woody scents like Australian sandalwood essential oil.

• Energizing and meditation: You can craft DIY shower melts to improve your focus and increase your overall body energy for instance you can use frankincense essential oil, bergamot essential oil, spearmint essential oil and myrrh essential oil or their blends as part of aromatherapy.

DIY Shower Melts

After knowing what shower melts can do for you then you can know how to make them, no doubt. If you have sensitive skin types, shower melts can be a good way to use essential oils since they're diluted in a recipe. Now after all these let's get into the job.

DIY Shower Melts Recipes

Relaxation Shower Melts

Ingredients

• 1 cup of baking soda

• ½ cup of citric acid

• ¼ cup of corn flour

• 3 tablespoons of lavender hydrosol

• 25 drops of lavender essential oil

• 10 drops of basil essential oil

• 10 drops of Roman chamomile essential oil

• 25 drops of neroli essential oil

• 1 teaspoon of mica powder (optional)

Steps

1. Combine all the dry ingredients: baking soda, citric acid and corn flour all together in a mixing bowl with a spatula or wooden spoon.

2. Add your mica powder of favorite color and mix till the color is uniform.

3. Add the essential oil blend: lavender essential oil, basil essential oil, Roman chamomile essential oil and neroli essential oil.

4. Add lavender hydrosol and mix till the dry mixture starts to clump up like sticky sand.

5. Press your mixture into molds, you can use even ice cube tray if you don't have silicone mold.

6. Let it air dry for 24 to 48 hours them pop out your shower melts.

7. Store your shower melts in airtight container.

8. Shower melts are ready for use.

Mood Relieving Shower Melts

Ingredients

• 1 cup of baking soda

• ½ cup of citric acid

• ¼ cup of cornstarch

• 10 drops of ginger essential oil

• 10 drops of lavender essential oil

• 20 drops of lemon essential oil

• 2 tablespoons of tea tree oil

• 1 tablespoon of dried thyme herbs (optional)

• 1 teaspoon of mica powder (optional)

Steps

1. Measure out and combine all dry ingredients: baking soda, citric acid, cornstarch and mica powder in a mixing bowl with wooden spoon.

2. Add your dried thyme herbs and combine together with dry blend.

3. Add your essential oil blends: ginger, lavender and lemon essential oils.

4. Add your tea tree oil to wet the dry ingredients till the mixture starts to clump together.

5. Press your mixture in silicone mold or ice cube tray and let them air dry for 24 hours.

6. Pop out your shower melts and store them in a airtight container.

7. You can throw them in a bathtub or shower floor and when you start showering they'll start to sizzle and pop.

Common Cold and Sore Throat Shower Melts

Ingredients

• 1 cup of baking soda

• ½ cup of Dead Sea salt

• 1 teaspoon of mica powder (optional)

• 3 tablespoons of lavender hydrosol

• 10 drops of frankincense essential oil

• 15 drops of eucalyptus essential oil

• 10 drops of peppermint essential oil

Steps

1. Measure out and combine all dry ingredients: baking soda, Dead Sea salt and mica powder in a mixing bowl with wooden spoon or spatula.

2. Add your essential oil blends: frankincense, eucalyptus and peppermint essential oils.

3. Wet your dry ingredients with lavender hydrosol till the mixture starts to clump together avoiding empty cavities forming within pressed mixture.

4. Press your mixture in silicone mold or ice cube tray and let them air dry for 24 hours.

5. Pop out your shower melts and store them in a Mason jar or airtight container or zipped bag.

6. Make sure your shower melts don't come into contact with moisture to avoid ruining them.

7. You can now use them.

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