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Milk Baths
🌹Ingredients and recipes for milk baths
When was the last time you took a milk bath? A milk bath is a bath that has milk as its main ingredient. Other ingredients typically include honey, essential oils, or herbs. Lactic acid, a component of milk helps exfoliate and promote cell turnover. Milk moisturizes dry skin, soothes sunburn, and is very relaxing.
People have been indulging in milk baths since ancient times as they are luxurious and skin nourishing. Cleopatra was known for loving milk baths as it helped maintain her beauty and keep her skin soft. According to a legend, she bathed in donkey’s milk, honey, and almond oil. Greeks and Romans also enjoyed milk baths because they believed that milk could soothe and heal the skin and help with its texture.
In this issue:
🥛Milks
🪨Clays
🌿Other Ingredients
🌹Flowers
🍃Recipes
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Milks
Milk baths can make your skin feel soft and smooth. It will be gently exfoliated. They smell nice and feel luxurious and help us to relax. There are different types of milk of course. Their benefits will differ. You can use…