How to Make Smelling Salts
- 1). Pour 1/4 cup of sea salt into the glass bowl.
Drop in the food coloring and mix well with a metal spoon. - 2). Add 20 drops of eucalyptus oil to the colored salt.
Stir the oil into the salt with a metal spoon. If possible, avoid crushing the salt crystals. - 3). Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow the salt to absorb the oil.
You can leave the salt in a dark cupboard for 20 minutes or up to a day. - 4). Remove the plastic and with the metal spoon, place the salts in a small covered tin.
Keep the tin closed unless using the smelling salts. Replace the salts when you are no longer knocked over by the scent when you open the tin. - 5). Use the salts by pinching a small amount between your forefinger and thumb. Gently wave the salts under the nose of the person who is fainting or has fainted.
