{"id":1719,"date":"2021-08-16T14:44:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T04:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2021-08-19T14:56:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T04:56:28","slug":"self-care-recipes-organic-merchant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/self-care-recipes-organic-merchant","title":{"rendered":"Self-care recipes to elevate your daily rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We&#8217;re all in need of a little TLC, especially with the stress of the pandemic and chaos of everything else going on in the world being at an all-time high. So we teamed up with Organic Merchant to bring you our favourite self-care recipes to nurture your mind, body and soul \u2014 you can thank us later&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our friends at Organic Merchant believe the ritual of taking a bath can be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/power-of-tea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restorative, healing practice<\/a>. Baths are an essential part of a self-care and wellness routine and can be especially enhanced when you combine traditional bath minerals with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/winter-tea-organic-merchant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organic herbal ingredients<\/a> like organic rose petals.<\/p>\n<h2>Homemade Bath Recipe with Oats &amp; Rose Petals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Organic oats, rolled or instant<\/li>\n<li>Epsom salts<\/li>\n<li>Dried rose petals (buy them online at organicmerchant.com.au)<\/li>\n<li>Storage container (preferably glass)<\/li>\n<li>Muslin drawstring bag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Layer the oats, Epsom salts and dried rose petals in a glass jar in equal amounts. Cap tightly and store until you are ready to use.<\/li>\n<li>To use, measure 3-4 tbsp of bath salts and place into a muslin drawstring bag.<\/li>\n<li>Place the bag in your bath as you fill it with warm water.<\/li>\n<li>Relax in the bath for 30-40 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>When you\u2019re ready to get out, pat the skin dry (don\u2019t rub) so your skin doesn\u2019t lose its moisture.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Homemade Rose Bath Soak<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>2 cups Epsom salts<\/li>\n<li>3 tablespoons olive oil<\/li>\n<li>8-10 drops relaxing essential oil of choice<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd cup dried rose petals (buy them online at organicmerchant.com.au)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>In a glass bowl, add Epsom salts and olive oil and stir until thoroughly mixed.<\/li>\n<li>Add the rose petals to the oil and salt mixture. Stir until thoroughly combined.<\/li>\n<li>Add 8-10 drops of your desired essential oil and incorporate it thoroughly into the mixture.<\/li>\n<li>Store your rose bath salts in a sealed glass container.<\/li>\n<li>To use, add 3-4 tbsp to your bath and soak for 15-20 mins.<\/li>\n<li>You can also use this as a scrub on hands and feet to remove dry skin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/organicmerchant.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organicmerchant.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all in need of a little TLC, so we teamed up with Organic Merchant to bring you our favourite self-care recipes to nurture your mind, body and soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,73],"tags":[380,386,285,157,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}