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Homemade bath salts allow you the most flexibility when it comes to choosing the types of salts you would like to use. Whether you purchase or make bath salts, the bath salt recipe or ingredient list, the best bath salts have Epsom salt.
Benefits of Epsom salt baths include increased relaxation as well as reduced muscle pain and fatigue as magnesium from the Epsom salt bath is absorbed through the skin into the body. Magnesium found in Epsom salt baths is involved in many different body processes. If your levels are too low then you are at greater risk for heart troubles and diabetes. Epsom salts can be purchased at your local drug store for a reasonable price. Homemade bath salts with Epsom Salt in a bath help your health including tired, achy feet.
When you make bath salts, choose salts that do not have extra iodine added, so NO TABLE SALT. Iodine will sting on any open cuts. Dead Sea salt typically doesn’t have added iodine, but check regular sea salt carefully. At the grocery store pickling salt is a safe choice; though I usually use sea salt as Dead Sea salt can be expensive. Because of other trace minerals it’s also not white; instead it’s more of a grayish color. Found in many health food stores, pink Himalayan salt as part of a bath salt recipe adds beautiful color as well as trace elements. Natural colorants for bath salt recipes include turmeric and sea weed powders. You can use food coloring for homemade bath salt too.
My personal bath salt recipe includes baking soda which soothes cuts or abrasions. Together with Epsom salt and sea salt it makes a nice combination. For muscle pain relief I add essential oils, such as peppermint, eucalyptus, bergamot and lavender, which also causes the body to relax and increase blood circulation though you are free to add any fragrance you wish including perfumes that need to be used up. To make sure the scent stays, do what my mom does and store them in the cool, dark, dry place or I, as a chemist, cheat and use a fixative called dendritic salt. It’s a highly purified version of table salt with a greater surface area. This can be purchased from various soap supply stores.
You can also add powdered milk to your homemade bath salts to make a milk bath. Since many of my friends are vegan, I shy away from things like that, but you are welcome to try it out. Let me know in the comments how your creations turned out. Usually with people use floral scents with milk baths, but feel free to try different combinations.

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You should be able to get all the ingredients between the health food store and the grocery store. Essential oils especially lavender and tea tree oil have wide availability. Below I’ve including my favorite online places to shop.
http://www.aquariusaroma-soap.com
http://www.soapandmore.com
http://www.makingcosmetics.com
http://www.sudsandscents.com
http://www.chemistrystore.com
http://www.oshun.ca