Immersing yourself in an herbal bath a wonderful way to use herbs. Your skin absorbs the herbal constituents and you inhale the medicine through the steam. As you relax in the tub, your body receives the healing benefits of the herbs. If you don’t feel like soaking your entire body, you can also luxuriate with a foot soak. Here are six of my favorite healing herbal bath recipes.
#1 Healing Garden Bath Recipe
Garden herb baths are a wonderful seasonal experience. You can steep your body in the abundance of fresh plants growing around you at the time, from dandelions in spring to rose petals in summer or evergreens in winter. Lavender and rosemary are staples for every season at our house.
Get the recipe: Healing Garden Bath
#2 Rose & Chamomile Bath Tea Bags
Making your own herbal bath tea bags is an easy and convenient way to get healing herbs into your tub. Herbal bath tea bags are made with dried herbs. I love making herbal bath recipes with a combination of roses and chamomile, which help with relaxation and bring peaceful sleep.
Get the recipe: Rose & Chamomile Herbal Bath Tea Bags
#3 Rosemary Pine Needle Bath
This rosemary and pine needle bath tub tea not only smells delicious, it will also warm you up, relieve sore joint pain and increase your vitality. Bathing with rosemary improves circulation and helps to relax the muscles, while pine needles help to clear congestion and stimulate mental clarity.
Get the recipe: Rosemary Pine Needle Bath Tub Tea
#4 Healing Flower Bath Tea Bags
Here’s one of my favorite herbal bath recipes that features four healing flowers: calendula, chamomile, lavender, and rose petals. Taking a bath with these flowers can help relieve stress and tension, heal the skin, and uplift the heart and spirit. These bath tea bags make lovely gifts, too!
Get the recipe: Healing Flower Bath Tea Bags
#5 Herbal Foot Bath
Try making an herbal foot soak for yourself any time you feel fatigued or stressed out. Foot soaks are a feast for the feet. Immerse the multitudes of nerve endings in your feet in a tub full of herbal tea, and let the herbs work you over. It is the treatment of least effort yet the effects are impressive.
Get the recipe: Herbal Foot Bath
#6 Simple & Healing Bath Salts
You don’t actually need any herbs for this bath salts recipe, which is very healing and easy to make! Made with a simple combination of sea salt and baking soda, this mixture helps to draw stress and tension from the body. It’s also great for the skin as it helps to heal up minor scrapes and cuts.
Get the recipe: Simple & Healing Bath Salts
Looking for more ideas for your herbal bath recipes? Click here to learn about 5 Bathing Herbs and Flowers With Healing Benefits
I’d love to hear about your herbal bath experiences! What are your favorite herbs to soak with? Have you experienced any benefits? Please share in the comments below.
Hi Kami
Thanks for the recipes. I love the rose and Chamomile combination on a bath or foot bath. I’ve bathed in For, Pine and cedar. Cedar is best left by itself, I find it grounding and it leaves the body smelling like a forest. What is there not to love.
I will try the rosemary foot bath, it sounds amazing. Rosemary with warm olive oil on the forehead does wonders so I might try it on my feet and head at the same time for good measure.
Have a great weekend.
I’m not much of a computer person, and just found you a few days ago. So far, I can honestly say I love everything you do. I don’t own a tub, but now, you make me sorry I don’t. I’m in my 70’s, and raised my children with comfrey salve. But I didn’t get the recipe and have always been sorry. Can I buy your ‘Herbal Kitchen Book’ at Barnes and Noble?
Welcome! Yes, you can buy The Herbal Kitchen in all major bookstores (or they’ll order it for you). Thank you!
I’m thinking these would be great to put into my hot tub every time I use it. Since they are in a bag, I can refill it each time.