Herbs for that wondrous bathroom Scented Waters indulgence

Make your own Herbal Scented Waters

A little luxury is important in our lives, with our stressed and raced lives we tend to leave ourselves for last. If money is scarce, all other necessities are seen to first and only when money and time allow, do we consider ourselves. To stay healthy we need to learn to relax, slow down and allow for the revitalisation of our inner-person.

Making and using Herbal Scented Waters is a super cheap way to spoil yourself. It is very easy to make, takes very little effort and time and costs next to nothing.

Place a bottle of your personal favourite smelling Herbal Scented Water next to your bath, when you bath add lavishly to your bath water, relax smell it, run your hands through the water, feel the water and scent on your skin, smell the air, smell your skin. When you dry yourself, spread more of the Scented Waters over your entire body. The difference it makes to how you feel is amazing.

Use any herb you like or whatever is available in your garden or once a flower arrangement has slightly lost its firmness, use the flowers to make your scented waters:

Herb Scented Waters

Here are a some herbs you might consider: Rose petals, lemon balm, lemon thyme, rosemary, chamomile, violet, sage, mint or lavender, vanilla pods, or a combination of any flowers or herbs, whatever takes your fancy.

Directions:

Wash and sterilise a jar with a screw top. Fill with fresh, dried petals or leaves and cover them with boiling water. Allow to cool. Add surgical spirits, in the proportion of: 4 tablespoons of spirit to 1 litre of water. Add 15 drops of lemon juice. Leave for two days, shaking daily. Strain and pour into clean sterilised bottles. Pretty small bottles, preferably dark glass, with cork or glass stoppers look the best especially if you have in mind to use these super fast and easy to make scents as a gift to a fiend. Make a card saying: made with love (or with care) by hand from yourself and you have a winner present for any occasion.

Spice Scented Water

This takes a little longer, but really still not a lot of effort and it is well worth it:

Use any of the following spices: Cinnamon sticks, cloves, coriander, or combine them with a favourite herb like bergamot, patchouli, or sage.

Directions:

Coarsely ground, crush or pummel the spice. Place 1 part spice and 5 parts rubbing alcohol in a sterilised screw top jar. Seal and leave for a week, shaking daily. After a week, strain discard spices and herbs and smell, if you feel it needs a stronger smell, replace the herbs and spices with fresh and repeat the storage and shaking for a week. Once you are happy with your Spice Scented Water, strain and pour into clean sterilised bottles with glass or cork stoppers as above.

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