If you are feeling slow and sluggish and the sun hasn’t been out for a while, try this herbal bath to get things moving! This rosemary and pine needle bath tub tea recipe will warm you up, relieve sore joint pain and increase your vitality.
Herbal baths are one of my best home wellness stress hacks.
What would it feel like if you could actually say, “I have a tool that can help me with my stress and take that layer off, soften that edge?”
And taking one layer off, what’s that worth? Sometimes it’s worth maybe you don’t get sick, sometimes it means a better nights’ sleep and that little extra sleep shows up in how you feel the next day and what kind of mood you’re in with your kids…
Herbal baths help to reduce your stress, prevent colds, stop headaches, calm your mind and help you sleep better.
This tub tea recipe has equal parts rosemary and evergreen needles. The combination of rosemary and evergreen needles in this bath smells so delicious!
Rosemary Bath Benefits
A rosemary bath has warming, opening and uplifting benefits.
Bathing with rosemary improves circulation and gets everything in the body moving. Rosemary has an anti-spasmodic effect and helps to relax the muscles.
If I feel sluggish or fatigued, a rosemary bath helps me shift to a new perspective.
Pine Needle Bath Benefits
You can use pine needles or other evergreen trees like fir or cedar in this bath tub tea recipe.
Pine, fir and cedar needles all help to clear sinus and bronchial congestion and stimulate mental clarity. This clearing effect also works with the mind, helping you to release built-up tension and mind chatter.
Pine needles stimulate circulation and help with cold and sore joints. If you are feeling cold and creaky, a pine needle bath has the benefits of getting your blood flowing and warming you up.
The lemony scent has a refreshing and uplifting effect and can change your mood and help with the winter blues!
Rosemary Pine Needle Bath Tub Tea Recipe
So let’s make some tub tea!
Just make up a big batch of your tub tea bags, keep them in a container in the bathroom and throw a couple into your next bath. Enjoy!
Rosemary Pine Needle Tub Tea
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp dried rosemary
- 2 tbsp dried pine needles (or cedar or fir)
Instructions
- Put the dried herbs into a muslin pouch.
- Secure the pouch tightly so the herbs don’t spill out
- To use, hook or loosely tie the little pouch of herbs under the tub spout so the water will pour through your homemade bath tea bag as your bath fills up.
- Once your bath is drawn, just let the pouch float in the tub. Squeeze the bath bag several times while you are in the bath. Breathe in the healing aroma!
- Remove the bath tea bag when you are finished with your bath.
- Herbal tub tea bags can be used a couple of times within 2 or 3 days. If the wet pouch sits around longer than that, it gets moldy.
I can’t identify many trees yet and would be worried that I might pick yew needles as I believe they are poisonous. I wouldn’t be ingesting them, but wouldn’t want to soak in them. Are any other needles poisonous?
I suggest getting a plant guide for your local area and finding local herbalists, botanists, or naturalists to learn to ID the trees of interest.
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