 Health Spa Treatments
- Using Lavender Herbs From Your Own Herb
Garden
- By Mary Hanna
Health spa treatments can be
costly. Have you ever considered creating your own home spa by
using lavender and other herbs from your own herb garden? After
all of the hours you spent planting and tending to your herb
plants, reap another benefit by using your herbs to make herbal
cosmetics, herbal teas or herbal medicines and by all means as
ingredients for a home spa. Some people have spaghetti herb gardens,
or salad gardens even headache gardens, consider this your own
Spa Herb Garden!
For very soft touchable skin
use Lavender or Calendula leaves and petals. Bruise the leaves
and petals and put them into a glass jar. Pour enough olive oil
into the jar to cover the herbs. Set the jar on a sunny window
and shake everyday for two to three weeks.
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Strain the oil through cheese
cloth pressing on the solids to remove all essential oils. Reseal
the jar and place in a dark place. The herbal oil should last
up to one year. This soothing Lavender oil can be applied directly
to the skin or used in a bath.
Put lavender flowers and leaves
into a warm bath and soak. Or put them in a muslin bag which
you will hook over the running water while filling the tub. The
Lavender will fill your bathroom with a wonderful scent. Since
Lavender is known for its calming effect, what better way to
relax after a day of gardening than a long soothing bath filled
with Lavender?
Lavender is a natural anti depressant
so place bowls of dried lavender around the house. Or since Lavender
is known for its calming effect, boil a large pot of water, throw
in the lavender, and place a towel over your head as you bend
down over the pot. Inhale in the delightful smell and feel its
soothing properties from the steam on your skin. |
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Another lovely way to use Lavender
is to sew them into little bags and put them between your pillow
and pillow case. The beautiful calming scent will help you sleep.
Calendulas may also be used in
the bath. An even better way to use this herb is as an antiseptic.
Again, bruise the leaves and flowers and add them to olive oil.
It will relieve stings, chapped lips, cuts and burns.
To make you're own spa loofahs
plant Luffa aegyptiaea. For a home spa tool grow the plant in
full sun in a place where the plant can climb. When you harvest
it, soak it in water to soften the brown skin, peel and set out
in the sun to dry. Save the seeds for your next years Spa Herb
Garden.
Now let's make some refreshing
teas using herbs from your herbal garden for use in your mini
home spa. Most people look at roses as just beautiful blooms,
but rose hips have more vitamin C than oranges. The little round
balls in the center of the rose is the hips. Gather them and
grind them in a coffee grinder. Steep them in very hot water,
not boiling, for about ten minutes and enjoy your fruity tea.
For a calming tea try Chamomile
or for a refreshing tea try Lemon balm. All of these herbs can
be grown in your own yard and will create a wonderful home health
spa experience.
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