Bath salts smell stinky :-(

[SudsyKat]

I made this bath salt recipe and within a couple of weeks, it started to smell fishy. Weird. I wonder if it's the Goat's Milk. I don't have much experience with bath salts, so I'm not sure. Here's the recipe I used:

1/2 Cup (46.5 g) colloidal oatmeal
2 scoops (31.8g) powdered goat milk
1 (246.8 g) cup baking soda
1 cup (225.4 g) coarse grain sea salts (or Dead Sea salts)
1/2 cup (125.1 g) epsom salts
2 Tbs (17.4 g) arrowroot powder
4 g. (.5%) Lavender EO

Thanks!

 

[dagmar88]

How are they packaged?
Are they sitting in the bathroom?

I'm guessing somehow moisture was introduced to the product...

 

[Sunny]

Goat milk powder does smell really weird if it gets any moisture in it. Blah.

Actually it smells pretty weird anyway.

 

[dieSpinne]

Dead Sea Salts are hygroscopic... they pull moisture from the air.

Moisture would promote the decomposition of proteins in the goat milk.

Decomposing proteins may contribute to odd smells. Many of them are ammoniac and could make for the "fishy" smell you identified.

 

[carebear]

what he said

 

[SudsyKat]

Wow - that is so helpful! Thank you all so much for the reply. I guess a milk bath maybe needs to be its own thing - separate from bath salts. Or at least, for sure separate from Dead Sea Salts. Thanks again.