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The best way to use our bath sachets is to take a little extra time before your bath and boil about a litre of water. Pour the boiling water into a non-metallic container and drop in the sachet (without opening it). Let it steep for about 10 minutes, draw your bath, and then pour the whole kit and kaboodle into the tub. Climb in and soak for at least ten minutes, using the sachet bag to rub any areas of rough or dry skin (knees, elbows, etc.). If you're in more of a hurry, however, you can simply pop the sachet right into your tub -- and some of our busiest customers actually open the sachet and re-tie it right over their shower heads, so they have a herbal shower! The sachets can be used more than once, but you must open the sachet and spread out the herbs between uses to avoid mildew -- and it's like reusing a tea bag, in that it's not as strong the second time around. A listing of ingredients for any of our bath products is available for those concerned with allergies or skin sensitivities. |
Our bath sachets are blended from food-grade and, where
possible, organic herbs for the finest quality and purest scents
and steeped essences possible. Each individual bath is hand-wrapped
in 100% cotton cheesecloth and labelled with its history, several
suggestions for its use, and its ingredients. Our baths are all
made in a government-inspected kitchen for your safety and security.
Miss Spencer's Scandalous Bath
Anne (“Ninon”) de Lanclos
was born in 1620 and lived an exciting and scandalous life as
a French courtesan, epicurean, and confidante to such literate
men as Moliere and Scarron. She was a celebrated beauty, whose
body retained its youthful curves and whose skin remained moist
and smooth throughout all of her eighty-five years. Her beauty
secrets were many and varied, but the one she felt to be most
important was her daily herbal bath. This herbal sachet recreates
her exact recipe.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Serenity Bath
This is a very old mixture, used by herbalists in ancient times to ease melancholy and invoke tenderness. The delicate and relaxing scent was believed to draw the mind into quieter pathways, release stress and toxins from the body, and encourage sweet dreams. One of its many ingredients is mistletoe, which was believed to protect you from curses, ill wishes, and black magic.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Hard Day's Work Bath Herbs
This bath mixture is wonderful for calming the nerves and relaxing sore muscles at the end of a hard day's work. It is also suitable for sensitive or easily irritated skin. Based on a recipe dating from the mid-seventeenth century and repeated with only slight variations in herbals throughout the next two centuries, our Hard Day's Work Herbs will soothe and relax you from head to toe.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Mollifying Bath
Mollify: To placate, calm, soften, or ease.
Herbalists have known for generations that their work affects not only the body but also the emotions. This particular herbal bath mixture has been used since the sixteenth century to chase away all manner of bad humours. Whether you need to lower your stress level, recover from a bad mood, or simply pick up your spirits, a long, luxurious soak in our Mollifying Bath will do you good.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Love Bath
The recipe for this sachet comes
from 17th-century Paris - what better place to find romance,
tenderness, and perhaps a little scandal? Delicate scents, sweet
preparations, and gentle herbs combine in this bath sachet to
bring you a feeling of deep contentment, warmth, and well-being.
The French ladies and courtesans for whom it was originally prepared
soaked long and luxuriously in this bath in the expectation of
finding a new love or revitalizing a long-standing relationship.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Muscle Magic Bath
A long soak in a hot tub feels wonderful on sore and tired muscles. A herbal soak designed to help ease those muscles and stave off stiffness makes the experience even better! Our special Muscle Magic blend comes from a seventeenth-century recipe that enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout Southern France and along the Mediterranean coast for over two centuries. This is also a wonderfully soothing bath to soak in when you feel a cold or a chill coming on.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Cordial Bath
Cordial baths are some of the most gentle and soothing baths created by herbalists, and have been used for centuries by those who wish for a little special pampering. They have been chosen and blended for their cooling and soothing properties, and are favourites of those with sensitive or irritated skin. They are also mildly deodorant, and are therefore the perfect choice for a soak before bed, after a strenuous workout, or at the beginning of a challenging day.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Tranquillity Bath
How precious is that tranquil moment, when one's mind can at last let go of the cares of the day and the woes of the world and travel its internal pathways to a place of repose and quietude where nothing disturbs, nothing interrupts, and at last solace and peace can be found! This is the thought that 17th-century English herbalists had in mind when they first created this blend of herbs. Our Tranquillity Bath takes advantage of the best place in the world to hide and relax - your bathtub!
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Queen Anne's Bath
The scent of this lovely bath has the sweetness of lavender mixed with the tang of rosemary and sage - it’s a delightful, light fragrance that’s wonderful for a long, slow soak or just a quick pick-me-up dip. These herbs were grown in the kitchen gardens of both palaces and cottages throughout the early 18th century, and were reputed to have been favourites of Queen Anne herself.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Oatmeal Lavender Bath
The emollient and healing effects of oatmeal have been known for centuries. Not surprisingly, the Scots were the masters at creating effective and enjoyable oatmeal skin preparations, and our Oatmeal Lavender Bath is made from a Scottish recipe that dates back to the 1700s. This is a wonderful bath to help soothe dry, itchy skin or insect bites while the heavenly scent soothes your soul!
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Oatmeal Rose Bath
The emollient and healing effects of oatmeal have been known for centuries, as have the soothing and calming properties of the rose. This eighteenth-century blend of oats and roses is wonderful for dry, irritated skin, and is excellent for a long soak when you need to feel spoiled. It is truly the ultimate in deeply soothing and relaxing luxury for both your skin and your psyche!
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Peace of Mind Bath
This wonderful bath first gained popularity some 250 years ago, when it was made as a remedy for frayed nerves. It enjoyed a wide following and appears in period references from all over Europe. We have to agree that we find ourselves tremendously relaxed and mellow after a soak in this heavenly blend. Gently sweet smelling and wonderful on the skin, this bath is the perfect solution for those folks who are desperate for an oasis of calm in an otherwise hectic day.
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Lush Life Bath
Once one of the most profitable and highly prized spices traded by the Dutch East India Company, cinnamon was prized for both its rich flavour and its reputation as an aphrodisiac. When combined with roses, which were said to attract both love and fortune, it makes a potent and evocative combination. Both ingredients also have a reputation for doing wonderful things for your skin. We suggest that you take a long, hot, luxurious bath in this mixture . . . you never know what might happen!
$3.00 each
Miss Spencer's Lavender Bath
“Lavender . . . openeth all inward parts, clensing and driving forth all evill and currupt humours” - John Gerard, 1597
Over the centuries, lavender has been used to relieve congestion, headaches, hangovers, tension, and
exhaustion, as well as to dress wounds, heal small skin abrasions, and ease insect bites. Use our bath made with only the finest French lavender when you need a mental holiday or a gentle sleep filled with sweet dreams.
$3.00 each
