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Radox Bath Salts Muscle Soothe - 500g $3.74 (51% off) + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU

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Radox Bath Salts Muscle Soothe, 500g.
I am an old man.

$7.20 at Coles & Woolworths, usually $6 at Amazon, best ever $3.06 in December a few years ago. Usually dispatched within 2 to 5 weeks.

5 dot points from Amazon:

  • Herbal mineral salts to help sooth tired, aching muscles
  • Leave you feeling relaxed after strenuous activity
  • Just add to a bath running with warm water
  • Herbal mineral salts to help sooth tired, aching muscles
  • Leave you feeling relaxed after strenuous activity
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  • OOS :(

    • +1

      Try again, okay now.

      • Thanks!

  • How is this any better than Epsom salt ? Which is around 6 bucks(for a kg) at Colesworth ?

    • Probably has an added scent or something. But you’re right, Epsom salts ftw

      • +9

        Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate and the theory is you absorb a little bit of magnesium in the bath, which is probably crap (also, just take a magnesium supplement, it will do the trick). But it does soften the water and make it feel nice (and prevent wrinkling from the bath water).

        Radox is sodium sesquicarbonate (with some bicarb and cleaning stuff). Basically you're putting yourself in washing machine water, which again feels very nice and will help get you clean.

        • Thanks :)

        • They have shown that despite the Magnesium Sulphate molecule in theory being too large to enter the body through the skin, that having epsom salt baths does raise the blood serum magnesium levels.

          The current theory is it entering via mucosal membranes and the anus LOL

      • +2

        For me I do think aot of it is the color and the smell. Don't care if it's a placebo if it works.

    • Epsom Salts you have to use a lot more than Radox. One brand of Epsom Salts I just looked at recommended using 375 grams for a bath and that was a 1KG box.

      • You can get a 25kg bag delivered for around ~$55 off eBay. That’s twice weekly epsom salt baths for 18 months. That’s what I’ve done.

  • +1

    Love the idea. Don't have a bathtub

    • +1

      Just put your foot over the shower drain

      • I think you mean put a couple of your "toes" right?

      • mmmm waffle stomp.

    • Buy a blow up kiddie pool or plastic clamshell.

      Place a Jolie hydro spa matt in the bottom.

      Fill with hot water (laundry tap etc).

      Enjoy

  • Love this stuff, better than the more expensive brands. Thanks OP

  • +1

    I never thought about it till a few weeks ago when I was considering buying a tube of deep heat - how does a topical treatment actually affect muscles?

    I understand that these salts can affect your skin and provide a pleasurable finish (!) and therefore give some type of relief (much like deep heat will "burn" your skin and by virtue of adding extra sensory load to the brain may act as an analgesic diminishing the muscular pain, even though it does not affect the muscle at all) but any allusion to soothing muscles has gotta be pure BS.

    Am I missing something?

    • -1

      I guess it’s something to do with transdermal absorption of magnesium. Not a proven theory as far as I know

      • +1

        If that was true I think we'd all die of sodium poisoning every time we go and swim at the beach.

    • Maybe try fisio cream it's not as harsh

    • Most of these muscle pain relief topical creams contain "Oil of wintergreen" or Methyl salicylate.

      This gets metabolized into Salicylic acid which is chemically and functionally a precursor of Aspirin.

      So no, you are actually applying an NSAID.

      Salicylic acid modulates COX-1 enzymatic activity to decrease the formation of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins. Salicylate may competitively inhibit prostaglandin formation. Salicylate's antirheumatic (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory) actions are a result of its analgesic and anti-inflammatory mechanisms.

  • had a bath with my 2 year old bottle the other day because I had a back injury, was surprised to find there's no actual magnesium in these

    just grab a box of the Epsom salts I reckon

    • just grab a box of the Epsom salts I reckon

      But before you do, see the previous comments.

      • good to be informed. personally I choose to pay a bit more for the real stuff (magnesium) than have more junk (sodium seuajznakkajskakakcarbonate)

  • +4

    Same price at Chemist Warehouse, and easier to pickup rather than waiting 2-5 weeks for delivery

    https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/56702/radox-bath-sal…

    • Fair enough. Mine from Amazon are coming tomorrow though.

  • I use mine in a square tub 8L tub for footbaths after long walks. 👍

  • We never had a "bath salts" epidemic here in Oz but every time I read this I imagine someone smoking bath salts.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_salts_(drug)

  • Party's over. Back to full price.

    • Party is still raging at Chemist Warehouse.

  • Available again now, just bought. Thanks op!

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