How to Heat Herbal Detox Wraps

Relaxing with some scented candles, soft music and mud can make your skin glow. Making your own detox body wraps is an inexpensive and more private way to get a popular spa treatment at home. Body wraps may help to tone the skin, improve circulation, alleviate muscle and joint pain and decrease cellulite. Some ingredients for detox wraps may include clay, salts, herbs, seaweed, essential oils or other ingredients. Apply them warm to aid in releasing toxins from the body.

Things You'll Need

• 1/4 cup sea salt
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 cup of dry herbs such as lavender, chamomile, calendula or ginger
• Bentonite or green clay
• Medium sauce pan
• Sheet or thin towel, cut into 12-inch wide strips

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Instructions

• 1

  Prepare the wrap by dissolving sea salt in two cups boiling water in a sauce pan on the stove. Add olive oil, herbs and clay and mix until a paste is formed. Allow it to cool enough so you can handle it. It should be warm, but not hot enough to burn the skin.

• 2

  Alternately, you can prepare the wrap in a microwave by putting water and salt in a microwave safe bowl and heating for approximately 3 minutes. Remove using oven mitts, and add olive oil, herbs and sea salt. Mix until you form a paste. Allow to cool until you can handle it without burning the skin.

• 3

  Take a quick, hot shower while the mud is cooling to open your pores.

• 4

  Slather the paste over the entire body. Cover it with strips of sheets or thin towels and let it sit for one hour.

• 5

  Shower in cool water to close your skin's pores.