Essential Bath Oil – Maybe, Oil and Water Do Mix After All

The enticing phrase “essential bath oil” parses two different ways: first, you should recognize your essential bath, and second you should recognize your bath oil.  The two different constructions mean and matter equally.  Yes, you must elevate your bath to a daily essential—not for vanity, but for fundamental health and especially sanity.  Although a bath with essential oils seems woefully decadent and flagrantly luxurious, your skin, your system, and your psyche need a long soak before bed each evening.  The delectable deliciousness of it counts simply as serendipity.  Just as importantly, however, you must assign precedence and priority to your essential morning shower, also enriched with essential oils for cleansing and nourishing your skin and hair, clearing the fog from your brain and the lassitude from your tired muscles.  Not a big production, but absolutely essential. 

Of course, you must coordinate your essential bath oils with your shower’s and bath’s different purposes.  The shower must pump you up, and the bath must calm you down.  No essential bath oil really can do both.

Invigorating Essential Bath Oil

In addition to thinking like a good naturopath as you select an essential oil for your morning shower, you also must think strategically.  All your shower products must harmonize with your signature fragrance.  Of course, if you have advanced from novice to intermediate naturopath, you probably have begun mixing your own unique perfume blend from your favorite essences, so that mixing those same tantalizing fragrances into your shower gel and shampoo poses no problem whatsoever. 

But if you maintain your loyalty to a popular perfume, then you must mix to match.  The popular fragrances characterized as “fresh, flirty, and innocent,” for example, typically combine citrus and sweet floral top notes –mandarin and red grapefruit top the lists—with similarly scented base notes like Ylang Ylang.  In order to assure your products harmonize, use the same ingredients.  In shower products, you may choose to emphasize the citrus elements because of their natural cleansing and disinfectant properties.   Slightly more sophisticated designer fragrances combine citrusy, woodsy, and spicy top notes with vanilla or cedarwood base notes, mixing well with most body chemistries and producing distinctive fragrances that typically defy simple description.

Bathtime Empowerment

Preparing for your most challenging days, you may want to turbo-charge your shower with essential bath oils guaranteed to make you feel empowered.  Almost all of the best base notes will make you feel just as strong and supple as the trees from which they derive.  Cedarwood, distinctive and distinguished, cleanses and refreshes.  Frankincense and Myrrh, rich with powerful fragrances and mystic allusions, ought to make you feel absolutely royal.  Ginger or clove will pique your perk; and jasmine or rose will confer all the dark sultriness of a hot summer night in a dense garden.

Calming, Soothing Essential Bath Oil

Three very happy essential bath oils spread calm, soothing, peace, and contentment through your entire body and being…or, at least, they give you a good head start.  Geranium appears on just about every list of ingredients in recipes for calming, soothing, relief of nervousness, liberation from anxiety, freedom from panic, and even for overcoming fear.  Chamomile, of course, appears among the ingredients in every calming, soothing, pacifying recipe.  And right up there with chamomile on the list of Nature’s most potent tranquilizers, you also will find lavender.  The three essential bath oils mixed into your bath in equal proportions, blend into deliciously delectable fragrance mystically and magically infused with the power to enchant you.