Beauty formulation
Oat Milk Colloidal Bath Soak
“Colloidal” is the operative word here: oats ground fine enough stay suspended in water rather than sinking or dissolving, forming a soft, silky film across the skin's surface that both physically soothes irritation and delivers beta-glucans directly to compromised skin.
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Ingredients
- Phase A (Dry Botanical Matrix)
- 1 cup (90g) Whole Oats (Avena sativa), finely ground into colloidal flour
- ½ cup (60g) Oat Milk Powder
- ¼ cup (60g) Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate)
Method & application
- Place whole oats into a high-speed blender or spice grinder and process until reduced to an ultra-fine, velvety colloidal flour.
- In a dry ceramic bowl, sift ground oats and oat milk powder together through a fine mesh strainer to eliminate grit.
- Stir in Epsom salt until uniform.
- Transfer to an airtight jar with a moisture-absorbent seal.
- APPLICATION
- Pour ½ cup of the mix directly under warm running bathwater.
- Swirl water with hands until milk powder dissolves into a silky milky bath. Soak for 20 minutes.
Kitchen note
A spice grinder gets oats finer than a standard blender, if your bath water still shows visible oat specks after swirling, that's your sign to invest in a dedicated spice grinder for this recipe.
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