Guest guest Posted December 13, 2001 Report Share Posted December 13, 2001 My mom used to put a few grains of rice in our salt shakers to prevent the salt from clumping. It worked. How about putting a couple teaspoons of rice (uncooked!) in one of those bath tea bags, and putting it at the bottom of the bath salts container? Dorothy niamair wrote: > > Hi everybody > > What can be added to bath salts [combi of sodium bicarbonate, epsom > salts and sea salt] to prevent hardening and clumping please? > Sorry if I'm asking a question that has been asked before !! > > Thanks in advance > > Nia x > Wales, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2001 Report Share Posted December 13, 2001 thanks Dorothy :-) > > > > Hi everybody > > > > What can be added to bath salts [combi of sodium bicarbonate, epsom > > salts and sea salt] to prevent hardening and clumping please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2001 Report Share Posted December 13, 2001 Hi there, Use dendritic salt in the blend to prevent clumping. It's porous and absorbs moisture. I use it and it works great. Donna ===== Regards, Donna Groom Fleur Essentials donnag2253@... __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2001 Report Share Posted December 13, 2001 someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard you can add a few grains of rice. Like they do in salt shakers to keep it from clumping. Rose Rosey's Mall Rose@... www.roseysmall.com bath salts Hi everybody What can be added to bath salts [combi of sodium bicarbonate, epsom salts and sea salt] to prevent hardening and clumping please? Sorry if I'm asking a question that has been asked before !! Thanks in advance Nia x Wales, UK Post message: Cosmeticinfo Subscribe: Cosmeticinfo-subscribe Unsubscribe: Cosmeticinfo-unsubscribe List owner: Cosmeticinfo-owner URL to this page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cosmeticinfo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2001 Report Share Posted December 15, 2001 In a message dated 12/13/01 9:39:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, naturania@... writes: > What can be added to bath salts [combi of sodium bicarbonate, epsom > salts and sea salt] to prevent hardening and clumping please? > Hi Nia, I am not sure if your question has been answered or not....but the only thing that I have found that is a " sure-fire " way to keep them from clumping under any conditions is fumed silica---from Cabot Corp. I use it to prevent " clumping " and also for scent retention. Hope this helps. Angie The Herbarie at Stoney Hill Farm www.theherbarie.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2001 Report Share Posted December 15, 2001 >I am not sure if your question has been answered or not....but the only thing >that I have found that is a " sure-fire " way to keep them from clumping under >any conditions is fumed silica---from Cabot Corp. I use it to prevent > " clumping " and also for scent retention. I've been using Cab-O-Sil M-5 with no apparent problems. But are Cab-O-Sil (fumed silica) type products available to homecrafters? Maurice ------------------------ Maurice O. Hevey Convergent Cosmetics, Inc. http://www.ConvergentCosmetics.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2001 Report Share Posted December 15, 2001 MY FIRST REACTION (s) TO ANGIE's Post were: WHAT is fumed silica? HOW DO I get it? IS IT something I can handle safely? Maurice - do you have any information you care to share about home crafters using or not using this in bath salts? Best, Bobbi ~ > >I am not sure if your question has been answered or not....but the only thing > >that I have found that is a " sure-fire " way to keep them from clumping under > >any conditions is fumed silica---from Cabot Corp. I use it to prevent > > " clumping " and also for scent retention. > > I've been using Cab-O-Sil M-5 with no apparent problems. But are > Cab-O-Sil (fumed silica) type products available to homecrafters? > > Maurice > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 15, 2001 Report Share Posted December 15, 2001 > > >>I am not sure if your question has been answered or not....but the only thing >>that I have found that is a " sure-fire " way to keep them from clumping under >>any conditions is fumed silica---from Cabot Corp. I use it to prevent >> " clumping " and also for scent retention. > >I've been using Cab-O-Sil M-5 with no apparent problems. But are >Cab-O-Sil (fumed silica) type products available to homecrafters? From the archives: From: " maurice o. hevey " <mhevey@s...> Date: Tue Oct 3, 2000 12:05 pm Subject: Re: Re: Glycerin On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:37:08 -0000, Turtle Cove Soapworks wrote: >I believe that adding glycerin to your bath salts will keep them from >caking. Try Cab-o-Sil M5 (INCI name = Silica) Cab-o-Sil website http://www.cabot-corp.com/cabosil For more information, you could also try reading the examples in US Patent 5,041,421. You can find a copy of this patent by seaching the USPTO Web Patent Databases. Go to <http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/srchnum.htm> and add the patent number 5,041,421 to the query box. Maurice ------------------------ Maurice O. Hevey Convergent Cosmetics, Inc. http://www.ConvergentCosmetics.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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