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The benefits of bath salt are many, and go beyond mere exfoliating dead cells to make skin soft and supple. A nice long soak in a tub sprinkled with bath salt releases muscle tension and improves common irritations such as insect bites, minor rashes, calluses on feet, while working on serious skin conditions like athlete's foot, eczema, and psoriasis. Says Leigh Lopez, CEO West Indian Skincare Co. "Whether you have sore, tired feet from standing all day, or a stiff back from working at your desk, bath salts can help improve the way you feel and ease away the tension."

How to pick your bath salt
Available on the market in a rainbow of colours, choosing the right bath salt can be quite a task for a novice. Firstly, ensure the bath salt is crystalline not lumpy, and contain body loving ingredients and nutrients. Leigh, suggests your choice of bath salt should depend on what you wish to achieve in the bath. "Cool hues such as blues and purples are generally soothing, while warm hues such as orange and yellow are energizing. Besides, the benefits of bath salt differ with grain size, for instance, finer grains dissolve quickly and work well as body scrubs". One can even enhance the benefits of bath salt by infusing it with essential oils such as lavender or vanilla. 

Leigh recommends softer and lighter fragrances for hot, temperate countries;

Orange: It has a fresh, sweet, citrus smell, and helps soothe dry, irritated skin as well as acne-prone skin. Excellent for rubbing on calluses on the feet.

Lavender: Eases nervous tension, relieves pain, disinfects scalp and skin, enhances blood circulation and treats respiratory problems. The benefits of lavender can be attributed to its antiseptic and antifungal properties, hence the best scent to treat skin disorders including wounds and sunburns.

Lemongrass: Bathing in water infused with lemongrass bath salts revitalises the body and relieves symptoms of jetlag, clears headache, and busts stress.

Bathing in salt/seawater has a long history. Almost 500 years before the birth of Christ, Hippocrates, who is called the Father of Medicine, noticed fishermen who had injured their hands seemed to have few infections or complications from their injuries. So Hippocrates encouraged his patients to bathe in warm seawater. A treatment called thalassotherapy (in Greek, thalassa means sea). This kind of bath encourages a release of toxins between the blood and the water and a restoration of mineral balance in the blood.