Though it is part of my evening routine to take a bath before I snuggle up in my rather becoming thermal nightie and socks with pom-pom combo, there are some nights when I can barely spare the energy, or indeed the will, to wander up the stairs, let alone run myself a sweetly scented bath and lounge around in fragrant waters when I could be curled up with a
And yet if I don’t mark the end of the day by soothing my worn out achy lady bones, my mind descends into a sleepy slump and the night is lost to drooping eyelids and the relentless mean and nasty wriggle of the Restless Leg Syndrome I have been afflicted with since my pregnancy with Finn.
So on days like this I take a hot, steamy candlelit shower with a few drops of essential oil splattered on to the shower floor, then wrap up snuggly and go downstairs. All well and scrumptiously soothing. But it turns out that there is a better way: a little something that means we don’t have to risk life and limb scattering an oily substance on to a slippery shower base, a little something I suspect you all knew about and nobody thought to tell me, so all hail the ever so slightly blissful Shower Tablet!
(Dear me I’m sooooo paranoid! An aromatherapy conspiracy? I think not).
Anyway, who knew?? I just chuck one into the shower and before I know it I am standing in a cloud full of deeply fragrant steam. While I have only managed to get the Aura Cacia
Another gorgeous little something for our comfort drawers, Housekeepers?
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Lush used to do shower bombs that were just. Alas it would seem that most people just don't get the concept and they are no more.
Oh don't you just hate it when things you have come to love disappear from the shelves??
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I was just thinking, I wonder if Lush did something, I can feel an email coming on….
I've found a solution! I smash up bath bombs and add chunks of Hesse to the shower floor. I only have a shower and so it's great do find a good use for bath bombs other than for air freshening
Great idea! I tend to put some oils on the burner in whatever room I want to relax, including the bathroom. But I can totally see how all that fragrant steam would be lush.
I use a burner in the living room, bedroom and kitchen but the shower thing really is bliss and the slippery floor thing can be got round by sprinkling the oils on to a flannel and putting that directly under the water… if you can't get these gorgeous shower tablets that is…
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I never knew these existed. They have medicated ones for colds and such but I thought they'd be too strong for everyday use. Thanks for sharing!