Healing Flower Bath Tea Bags (Great DIY Gifts!)

Bathing with herbs is a powerful therapy that we can easily incorporate into our busy lives. Everyone washes with water, and it is not too much extra effort to add some healing herbs to the routine, like my healing flower bath tea bag recipe. These herbal bath bags make great DIY gifts, too!

Benefits of Herbal Bathing

Bathing is more than getting the dirt off; it is a ritual with water. Bathing often marks the beginning or ending thresholds of the day and we take baths before dates or special occasions. We bathe for spiritual purification and to calm our mind and relax.

Our water rituals are enhanced as we bring in the physical and spiritual properties of herbs and flowers to our bath.

For example, you could use rosemary and sage to invigorate your morning wake-up bathing ritual. Sprinkle chamomile and lemon verbena in your bath water to mark the end of the day. Soak your body in rose petals when you want more love and beauty in your life. Make a bath tea with lavender flowers for its relaxing and skin healing benefits.

You can make herbal or flower bath mixtures for each season, reflecting the needs of your body and the benefits you seek during different times of the year.

I take an herbal bath almost every day and this ritual is an important part of my preventive health care plan and my spiritual practice. If you do not have a bathtub, maybe it is time to remodel your house!

Herbal baths are also a great tool for introducing herbal therapies to children or for getting herbs into people that do not like to drink tea. Not everyone will drink herbal teas, but most everyone would like to take a break in a warm bath full of aromatic flowers and herbs.

DIY Herbal Bath Tea Bags

Herbal bath tea bags are the simplest and most convenient way to bathe with herbs. Bath tea bags are made with dried herbs and flowers. I have a large, airtight jar full of them in the bathroom cupboard.

You can put one herb into each bath bag, or you can mix several herbs together and put them in the bag. If you are using purchased cotton or muslin pouches, they come in different sizes; the small size holds about 4 tablespoons of herbs.

These bath tea bags are easy to create and make great DIY gifts. They are a wonderful way to share your love of herbal bathing with others.

You can make 25 of them at one time. Put them in a decorative jar with a label and instructions and give them to your family and friends. I have been giving bath bags away for years and everyone loves them.

Flower Bath Tea Bag Recipe

Here’s one of my favorite recipes for a healing flower bath tea bag that features calendula, chamomile, lavender, and rose petals. Taking a bath with these flowers has many healing benefits. 

You can find the dried herbs and muslin bags at Mountain Rose Herbs.

Print Recipe

Healing Flower Bath Tea Bags

Servings: 2 bags

Author: Kami McBride

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp dried calendula flowers
• 2 tbsp dried chamomile flowers
• 2 tbsp dried lavender flowers
• 2 tbsp dried rose petals

Instructions

• Put all the herbs into a bowl and mix them together well.
• Make your own bath tea bag by putting 4 tablespoons of the dried herbs into a sock, old piece of T-shirt fabric, cotton muslin tea bag or just about any kind of tightly woven cloth. Use string or a rubber band and tie the cloth shut to make a sachet/pouch/bath bag with the herbs in the cloth. Secure the fabric tightly so the herbs don’t spill out.
• To use the bath tea bag, hook or loosely tie the sachet of herbs under the tub spout so the water will pour through the bag as your bath fills up.
• Once your bath is drawn, just let the sachet of herbs float in the tub. Squeeze the bath bag several times while you are in the bath. Breathe in the scent and watch the water change color.
• Remove the bath tea bag when you are finished with your bath. Herbal bath tea bags can be used 3 times within about 4 days. If the wet pouch sits around longer than that, it gets moldy. We use the same pouch for 3 days in a row then remove the herbs.
• Rinse the herbs out of the pouch. Wash and dry the material that you used to make the bath tea bag and re-use it.