Exploding Bath Salts?

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Thanks to Michelle from Open Eye Health for alerting me to a possible danger associated with storing bath salts made with baking soda in a glass jar!

I have never had this happen to me, nor have I heard of it happening before. Every book that has suggested giving bath salts as a gift and provided a recipe, said to store in a jar with a tight-fitting lid.

But…

…after googling, I did run across a few instances of people having glass jars containing bath salts (made with baking soda and salt) explode.

Now wouldn’t that be a surprise?!

You can read an account of it happening here.

I wanted to post this since I have a few recipes for bath salts on this website. I’ve added a note to those particular posts too.

As of right now, I still have my bath salts in jars, but am thinking about punching a hole in the lid to let any air build up escape.

I’ve also submitted this to Mythbusters :)

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  1. Katie says:
    May 19, 2011 at 3:06 pm

    I have made my own bath salts before and I stored them in a zip bag, but I noticed the bag puffing up really taut.

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  2. tammy says:
    September 26, 2011 at 7:18 am

    In anticipation of holiday gift giving, I just made 6 or 7 different recipes of bath salts. I noticed them clumping in the air tight mason jars that I was storing them in, so I shook them and started to loosen the band on one to smell the salts and the lid blew off and the salts exploded out of the jar. I carefully picked up the rest of the jars to loosen the lids and release the pressure on them. The last one blew off of the jar, breaking my index finger and showering bath salts over the entire room. I now have them all in plastic jars with loose fitting lids. Everyone please be careful!!!! Thank goodness this happened to me and not to someone I had given a jar to as a gift. I also have never seen a warning with any bath salt recipes.

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    • Stacy says:
      October 7, 2011 at 9:18 am

      Tammy,

      Thank you for letting me know your experience with bath salts. That is very scary!

      I’m sorry about your finger. I’m sure that hurt a lot.

      I appreciate you taking the time tell us. I’d hate to give someone a gift and have it explode on them!

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