How to Make Botanical Bath Tea Bags

A bath tea bag is the tidiest way to enjoy dried botanicals in the bath. Everything stays inside the bag, so you get the colour and the scent without fishing petals out of the drain afterwards. They cost very little to make and look lovely tied with string as a gift. An easy recipe from The Soap Barn using our dried botanicals.

Method

1. Crush the hawthorn berries lightly with the back of a spoon or a rolling pin. You want them broken open, not powdered, so the colour releases in the water.
2. Combine the berries, calendula flowers, Epsom salts and bicarbonate of soda in a bowl and mix well.
3. If you are scenting them, add your essential oil a drop at a time and stir it through the salts, which will carry the scent best.
4. Spoon roughly two tablespoons of the mix into each tea bag. Do not overfill, you need room to seal the top cleanly.
5. Fold the top over and press with a warm iron or a heat sealer to close.
6. To use, drop one bag into a running bath and let it steep for a few minutes before getting in.

Tips & variations

• Make them the day you plan to use or gift them if you have added essential oil, as the scent fades in a paper bag over time.
• Store unscented bags in an airtight jar and they will keep for months.
• Swap the calendula for any dried flower you like. Rose, chamomile and cornflower all hold their colour well in hot water.
• Our lavender bath tea recipe pack is the same idea with everything measured out.