Re: OT-Melatonin/epsom salts

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Three other ways of giving epsom salts:

1. Make up a solution of 1 part Epsom Salts to 2 parts filtered

water. Put this solution in a spray bottle and mist the child's chest

and back with it in the evening. I have done this and within a half

an hour of his misting, my son is ready to sleep, it really calms him

down.

2. Use 1 cup of Epsom salts to 3 cups water for the foot bath. My

sons soak their feet about 20-30 minutes while they do their reading.

3. There is a receipe for making a paste that can be applied

topically. From another mom:

Epson Salt Ointment

I am sure that a handy person can come up with a cream/ ointment in

the same way I did but here is the formula I have been using for

about a year now. We use it after a bath before bed and as a hand

and foot lotion during PT and to soothe. It absorbs fine and leaves

only a little powder type residue.

1 cup epson salts

2 t non-aluminum baking soda

1/2 cup boiling distilled water

2 T glycerin

1/4 cup almond, olive, or sunflower oil

1/2 cup favorite natural lotion or cream from HFS OR 1/2 cup coconut

butter

optional

a few drops lavender or other essential oils

a T flaxseed oil

a T evening primrose oil

a T of MSM powder to boost sulfate levels

This is like making real mayonnaise, you need to blend at high speed

and add ingredients a little at a time.

Boil water and add to epson salts and baking soda in blender, pulse

till dissolved and not grainy (must be boiling). Add glycerin, then

slowly add oils while blending to emulsify. Still blending add

lotion, cream, or coconut butter a little at a time. Pour into a

clean container, preferably ceramic or glass (I use a wide mouth

mason jar that I can sterilize). If this separates into layers when

cool, rewarm and add 2T guar gum dissolved into a bit of hot water,

reblend and cool. It should not get grainy and should smooth on well

and be rubbed into warm open pores. If you like it more or less oily

change that part of the recipe, I make mine kind of thin like a light

massage oil rather than a cream.

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