Uses For Epsom Salts
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:
Skin Exfoliator
Simply massage handfuls of Epsom salt over wet skin, starting at the feet and moving all the way up to the face. Rinse in a bath
Face Cleaner
For cleaning your face at night, mix half a teaspoon of Epsom salt with a regular cleansing cream. Massage into the skin and rinse in cold water.
Remove Gel and Hairspray
Mix together one gallon of distilled water, a cup of Lemon Juice and one cup of Epsom Salt. Cover the mixture and leave it to sit for atleast 24 hours. The following day, pour the mixture into your hair, letting it site for 20 minutes. Shampoo as normal.
Fight Oily Hair
Epsom Salts can do wonders for hair by absorbing unwanted oil. Start by adding 8 tablespoons of Epsom Salts to half a cup of shampoo specially for oily hair. Then put a tablespoon of shampoo mixture on dry hair, work it in an around the the scalp area, rinsing out with cold water. To further treat the hair, pour a cup of apple cider vinegar over the hair, leaving for 5 minutes, then rinse in cool water.
Hair Volumiser which Adds Body
Add 3 tablespoons of deep conditioner with 3 tablespoons of Epsom Salt. Microwave the ixture for 20 seconds. Then work the warm mixture into the hair from the scalp to the ends and leave on for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water. This treatment adds body and life in your hair an restores the curl to permed hair.
Soak Out Splinters
Soaking a splinter in Epsom Salts can draw out the splinter out and help the wound to heal.
Ease Aching Feet
You can remove odors, soften rough skin and soothe aching feet by soaking them in Epsom Salts. Add half a cup of Epsom Salt to a large pan. Soak your feet for as long as you need. Epsom salts work to neutralize odour and soften skin as well as making your feet feel better.
Ease Sprains and Bruises
The salts can reduce the swelling of bruises and sprains
Homemade Skin Mask
Use this mask on your damp skin in the shower. It will seal in moisture. With normal to oily skin, mix 1 tablespoon of Cognac, 1 Egg, one quarter cup of non fat dry milk, the juice of one lemon and half a teaspoon of Epsom Salt. When using on normal to dry skin mix one quarter cup of grated carrot,  1/2 teaspoons of mayonnaise and half a teaspoon of Epsom Salt.
Insulin More Effective
The salt is said to increase the effectiveness of insulin which helps lower the severity or risk of Diabetes.
Preventing Blood clots and Hardening of the Arteries
Heart disease and strokes are believed to be helped prevented by using Epsom Salts. It lowers blood pressure, thereby preventing blood clots and protecting the elasticity of arteries.
Deterring Slugs
By sprinkling Epsom salts where the slugs glide you will stop them from coming back.
Excellent Fertiliser
Epsom Salts is a great general fertiliser. This is especially true for tomatoes
See off Raccoons
Several tablespoons of Epsom Salts spread around where the congregate will deter Raccoon. They don’t like the taste of the salts. Must be re-applied after rain.
Improve your Grass
Epsom Salts adds Magnesium and Iron to your soil. Add 2 tablespoons to 3.7 liters of water. Sprinkle on the lawn then water with plain water to get it to soak in properly.
Christmas Frosting
Mix Epsom Salts with stale beer until the salt stops dissolving. Apply to windows with a sponge.When dry windows look as if they are frosted.
Cleaning Bathroom Tiles
Mix equal parts Epsom Salts and liquid dish detergent. Dab on the area then scrub. The detergent and the salts work together to dissolve and scrub the grime.
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