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Magnesium Flakes
Long day? Pour, soak and float away with these magnesium chloride flakes. Add them to your bath or foot soak to soothe tired legs and sore muscles, or wind down before bed.
Not sure where to start with magnesium flakes?
Start with a bath. Run it warm, tip in one or two cups and get in. Elektra say the magnesium keeps absorbing for about half an hour, and after that your skin has taken up what it can hold. If a bath is too much of a production, a dessertspoon in half a bucket of hot water does your feet.
These are the two I keep in my own bathroom.
Elektra Magnesium Chloride Flakes Food Grade
Certified food grade, so they do two jobs in my house. One or two cups in the bath, and a small pinch in a litre of filtered drinking water. It makes the water taste soft. These come from a lake on the Tibetan Plateau, more than 3,000 metres above sea level, and they carry over 16% elemental magnesium.
Nectarine rating 3/3Amazing You Sleep Magnesium Flakes 800g
The same magnesium chloride with lavender and chamomile essential oils added, and these are the ones I run for a sleepy bath. The magnesium is no different, the essential oils are what you're choosing.
Nectarine rating 3/3
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