Epsom Salts

[JanetRose]

Someone recommended to me that it's great for soaking your feet. I googled Epsom Salts and it can be used as a shampoo, bath soak, face cleaner, etc, etc.

Does anyone use it as any of the above?

 

[nashville_minnie]

i have done the bath and foot soak, but NEVER would put it on my face, and i don't even get how it could work as a shampoo- weird!!

 

[golfgal]

I have used it as a foot soak, and thanks for the reminder. My feet are sore tonight and I think I am going to soak them now

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I used it for sprains or something in the past. Cannot remember.

Funny you should bring it up because I was searching for how to do a home pedicure and Epsom Salts was one of the recommendations.

 

[Tiggeroo]

I put it in my plants if I think they are low on magnesium

 

[Tinijocaro]

I have used it as part of a liver cleanse-had to drink a solution of the stuff-NASTY!!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I put it in my plants if I think they are low on magnesium

Forgot about that. I should have used some on my shrub roses this summer. I will have to remember that.

 

[ENSOCK]

my Dmom swore by this. She would soak everynight when going thur her cancer treatments. She claimed it helped with the soreness.

 

[bumbershoot]

When I'm sore from workouts, or being sick, or whatever, I take a bath with epsom salts. It's lovely and it almost always works to get the pain away.


I looked up shampoo use:

"The salts do wonders for the hair, absorbing oil from problem hair by adding 8 tablespoons of Epsom salts to a half a cup of shampoo that’s formulated for oily hair. Put a tablespoon of the shampoo mixture on dry hair and work it in and around the scalp area, rinsing it out with cold water. To rinse it well, and further treat oily hair, pour a cup of apple cider vinegar over the hair, leave on for 5 minutes, and then rinse with cool water. To add fullness to thin hair, combine equal parts of Epsom salts and hair conditioner. Warm the mixture in a pan then work it into hair. Leave on for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water. "

 

[Mom-to-2-Princesses]

wow - the things you learn on the DIS!

My daughter's doctor told us to have her take Epsom Salt baths twice a week and now I'm understanding more why. Thanks!

 

[golfgal]

wow - the things you learn on the DIS!

My daughter's doctor told us to have her take Epsom Salt baths twice a week and now I'm understanding more why. Thanks!

The "sea salts" you get at Bath and Body Works, etc. are basically scented Epsom salts so if she wants something a little nicer smelling you can try those.

 

[NewCrew42]

It really is a wonderful soak for achy joints and muscles.

 

[dawson5]

I used epsom salt bath to help draw out an abscess on the hamster's behind. It seemed to draw the infection out and helped it heal/dry. He had already been on antibiotics, which didn't seem to be working quickly. Maybe it was a combination of the antibiotics and 10 minute epsom salt baths, three times a day. It didn't hurt and we thought it helped. It was all kinds of fun giving a hamster a "soak" three times a day though.

 

[taximomfor4]

Epsom salts make the water nice and soft feeling. I like to add to my baths. However, I did a research paper on how it actually works as a treatment for sprains/sore muscles, and there is NOTHING. Like an old wives' tale that everyone believes. They are unsure if it even gets through your skin (one study found that it does, but in many years since, it was never peer-reviewed or replicated!)

Best thing about it, no harm in trying! I WILL say that it seems to have greatly sped the healing of dd's blisters (extra dance classes lately) which were already a little open. Whether soaking in plain warm water would have done the same, who knows but I figured, can't hurt to throw the Epsom Salt in there!