Milk Bath Mix - Easy DIY Recipe - The DIY Lighthouse

I had heard of milk baths before. If you’re like me then you’ve also seen the cute baby or toddler photo shoots and the dreamy maternity photo shoots. But honestly I had no idea what milk baths were made of. Were people just taking baths in watered down milk? Turns out, you can make an easy DIY milk bath mix at home.

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When I was planning a sisters retreat I decided we needed to treat ourselves and relax a bit more than usual. So, I started to research and discovered that making a milk bath is not all that hard.

Here is my own version after looking up recipes like the ones from this and this blog.

Milk Bath Mix Recipe

Milk Bath Ingredients

2 cups powdered milk
1 cup Epsom salt
1/2 cup baking soda
1/4 cup cornstarch
10 drops lavender essential oil

Ingredients for a DIY Milk Bath Mix Recipe.

This recipe makes about 2-3 uses worth of milk bath mix. Feel free to double or triple this recipe if you’d like.

Milk Bath Directions

First, simply gather all of your ingredients. (I picked up all of my ingredients for this at Harmons, our local grocery store.) They are all standard products so should be available at most chain grocery stores.

Measure out the ingredients into a gallon-sized plastic ziplock bag. Then, shake up the bag so the ingredients mix together.

Milk Bath Mix. Use 1-2 Cups in a this DIY milk bath recipe.

Milk bath mix recipe includes 5 easy ingredients you can find at your grocery store.

When you are ready take a milk bath, scoop 1-2 cups of the milk bath mix and pour it next to your running bath water. (The amount of the milk you use depends on how much bath water you use and how you like your water to mix ratio.)

Pouring DIY milk bath mix recipe into bath water.

That’s it! Easy!

Easy DIY milk bath mix recipe. Use these simple ingredients and directions for your next relaxing bath, baby photoshoot, or maternity pictures.

You’ll find that at first the milk bath mix will be more fizzy than milky, but slowly it will settle down, the bubbles will disappear, and your water will get milky in appearance.

Milk Bath Tip

If you are doing a photo shoot, consider throwing in some pretty flowers. But, if you are only using the milk bath mix to take a relaxing bath, I suggest forgoing the flowers. As another blogger pointed out, it’s not that pleasant having things floating around your bath water with you. I agree and think it would detract from the relaxation.

What do you think? Flowers or no flowers?