There are many uses for Epsom Salts, which is the common name for magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, MgSO4·7H2O.

It is one of the most versatile household products, which is easy to use and easy to find in a grocery store or pharmacy. Just as importantly it costs less than a cup of coffee.

Epsom Salts is  a  bitter-tasting water-soluble compound that occurs as colorless or white needle-shaped crystals.

The substance was prepared from the waters of mineral springs at Epsom, England.  It is  also known to occur as the mineral epsomite.

Epsom salts is used medicinally as a purgative and has many other uses, some of them are:

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