A few salt bar questions...

[surf girl]

Well, I decided to do a search and see what came up.

There are some bars advertised that contain Epsom salts or Dead Sea Salt, but they appear to be M&P, so I'm not sure one could assume that CP soap would behave the same way, and there is no description of how much salts are used. Examples of soap adverts: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?li ... d=20606119 and http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?li ... d=16544607

I found an archived forum that described what happened when Epsom Salts were used: "I tried that once and it got all soft and mushy." http://www.candletech.com/archivedforum/.4376.html

A poster on TheDish describes a "soupy, gooey mess" when she used Epsom salts (CP soap). Another describes an Epsom salt batch as never hardening.

So, as eucalypta recommended, and as various peoples' personal experimentation bears out, Epsom salts in CP is a no-go. The chemistry of it, I'll leave to someone else.

 

[eucalypta]

@surfgirl
Amen

small note: I can hardly understand why an Epsom salt bath could influence your bloodpressure or threaten youir pregnancy; IMHO the skin is meant to let things "out" not "in"

 

[redfishingirl]

@surfgirl
Amen

small note: I can hardly understand why an Epsom salt bath could influence your bloodpressure or threaten youir pregnancy; IMHO the skin is meant to let things "out" not "in"

The skin does both- let in- and out. That's why patch medications work. Epsom salts have their place (I happen to love a good bath with them after a hard workout or rough day fishing).

 

[surf girl]

The skin does both- let in- and out. That's why patch medications work.

Indeed, but only certain things can cross the skin barrier. I don't think Epsom salts are one of them.

 

[Emilee]

sorry to be so ignorant, but why do a salt bar? is the salt a great exfoliater and that is the only reason?