Send your bridal shower guests home with a special spa favor! These therapeutic bath salts are infused with essential oils and beautifully packaged in single use vials.
In a large bowl, combine the Dead Sea salts, Epsom salts, and baking soda. Mix well using a cosmetics-dedicated rubber spatula to combine.
Add the lavender oil and orange oil. Mix into the salts using the spatula. Keep turning the mixture over and mashing the salts until the oils are completely dispersed. The addition of the oils will cause the baking soda and Epsom salts to cling to the surface of the coarse Dead Sea salt, making them look like little opaque ice pellets.
Add the rose buds and jasmine. Fold them in with a rubber spatula. Crush a few rose buds between your fingers to disperse more color throughout the salts, if desired.
Use a small spoon to scoop the salts from the bowl and funnel them into the vials. Avoid over-packing the salts into the vials, or they become stuck inside the vials. (If this happens, use a long skewer to coax the salts out of the tube.)
Place the corks in the tubes and wrap a small length of clear cellophane tape around the tube where the glass and cork meet. Wind burlap twine around the top edge of the tubes to cover the tape. Knot the twine and cut off the excess.
Place labels on the centers of the tubes, and corresponding labels on the cork tops (if applicable).
Present the tubes in a pretty vase so guests can take one as they leave, or lay a vial at each place setting at your reception tables.
Notes
Guests who do not use bath salts may use this as a healing foot soak. Consider including small mesh bags with your vials for steeping the salts in hot bath water. This removes the need for cleaning the rose petals out of the tub after the spa treatment.