Smokey’s Epsom Bath Salts – Sleepy Time Melatonin

Smokey’s Epsom Bath Salts – Sleepy Time Melatonin

Combining CBD and THC with Your Bath

Adding CBD and THC into your bath is a way to take up your pamper session just a notch.
The combined cannabinoids will soak into your skin and reach the endocannabinoid system, providing your body with health benefits while you soak.

Simply sit back, unwind, and let the bath salts activate – you don’t even have to lift a finger, or a dropper bottle of oil!

What is Epsom Salt?

Epsom salt, which also goes by the name magnesium sulfate, is a chemical compound made up of magnesium, sulfur, and oxygen. Its less-scientific name actually stems from its prevalence in the village of Epsom in Surrey, England, one of the country’s first spa towns, where people came to “take the waters” from a bitter saline spring thought to have medicinal properties.

The Benefits of Epsom Salts

One of the most common uses of Epsom salt is adding it to a warm bath to help soothe muscle pain, soreness or discomfort. After exercising, the benefit of Epsom salt comes from the magnesium sulfate. Magnesium regulates your electrolyte balance, which is needed for calcium regulation and potassium absorption. In an Epsom salt bath, the magnesium ions are released in the water, which may help the body use up glucose and lactic acid, and provides relief from soreness, inflammation, and muscle cramps.

Epsom Salts contain magnesium, the fourth most abundant mineral in the body. It is involved in more than 325 biochemical reactions that benefit your heart and nervous system. Adequate magnesium levels are essential for sleep and stress management, likely because magnesium helps your brain produce neurotransmitters that induce sleep and reduce stress. Low magnesium levels may negatively affect sleep quality and stress. Some people claim that taking Epsom salt baths can reverse these issues by allowing your body to absorb magnesium through the skin. Magnesium also helps your body produce melatonin, a hormone that promotes sleep. Athletes are prone to low magnesium levels, so health professionals often recommend that they include magnesium in their daily routine to ensure optimal levels.

Smokey’s 1:1 THC:CBD Epsom Bath Salts can help relieve:

• Sore muscles after working out
• Arthritis pain and swelling
• Bruises and sprains
• Fibromyalgia
• Ingrown toenails
• Insomnia
• Psoriasis
• Soreness from diarrhea during chemotherapy
• Sunburn pain and redness
• Tired, swollen feet

How to Use Smokey’s Epsom Bath Salts

1. Add 1/3 to 1/2 cup to a bath for a soothing, luxurious experience for 20 – 30 minutes!
2. Drink a glass of water following soak.

Store in cool, dry place away from light. Do not introduce water into container.

Melatonin & CBD

Tired of those restless nights? Lack of sleep can leave you feeling moody, stressed and irritable. Melatonin and CBD oil both promote sleep, but work in different ways to do so.

Unlike regular vitamins and supplements, when you take melatonin it is treated by the body as if it were created internally. Instead of breaking it down and converting it into something usable, your body is able to metabolize melatonin immediately, without further processing. The same is true for CBD oil.

Just how cannabidiol (CBD) is able to yield benefits by replicating your body’s own endocannabinoids, melatonin supplements do the same to help regulate your circadian rhythm, or natural sleep-wake cycle.

During normal waking hours, there is very little melatonin circulating in your body. Instead, there are other hormones like cortisol at work, which keep you alert and awake. But as day turns into night, the levels of melatonin in your system start to rise as the sun goes down, peaking overnight and slowly reducing toward the morning. Taking a melatonin supplement before bed increases the amount of melatonin in the body and can encourage rest and deeper sleep.

Meanwhile, CBD oil promotes sleep by reducing cortisol levels and anxiety. Cortisol levels should naturally fall overnight, but if you’re overly stressed, they can spike and remain high, making falling asleep near impossible. CBD oil has been shown to inhibit the release of cortisol, and could help reduce the stress that’s barring you from a good night’s sleep. Since CBD oil can also help with anxiety, your overall stress levels should dip and remain lower, making relaxation and a good night’s sleep more achievable.

With all this in mind, taking CBD oil and melatonin together may create a powerful aid to fight insomnia. Because cannabidiol and melatonin act on different systems in the body, currently, it is believed there is no risk for adverse side effects when combining the two.

Melatonin signals your body that it is time to sleep, while CBD oil works in tandem to provide overall relaxation and calm. Together, they deliver a one-two punch to insomnia and sleep disturbances.

Getting a good night’s rest with topical melatonin

Poor sleep adversely affects nearly every system of the body, including its largest organ—the skin.
Inadequate sleep can lead to bags under the eyes, wrinkles and furrows, and poor skin tone, contributing to premature aging.
The hormone melatonin is responsible for regulating sleep-wake cycles and plays a key role in skin repair and renewal.
Aging and sleep disturbances can decrease the body’s production of melatonin.
Topical application of melatonin rejuvenates the skin through numerous mechanisms, including fighting free radicals, providing photoprotection, and supporting skin healing.