UPLIFTING CITRUS BATH

When I went back to Ipoh during the weekend, I bought limes, lemons and kaffir limes from the market.  They cost much cheaper in Ipoh as compared to Manjung and Sitiawan.  Last week, I had to pay RM1 for two kaffir limes but I only paid RM2 for 5 in my hometown.  The local lemons cost me RM1 for two.  I just bought the yellow lemons from Econsave at 79 sen each.

This is how I pampered myself yesterday evening.  I took a lime, yellow lemon, local lemon and kaffir lime each cut them into slices and placed them in my bath-tub.  I also added chrysanthemum flowers, kaffir lime leaves plus pomelo leaves to the diffusion.  I left all the goodies in the tub for an hour before indulging myself in a citrus bath.  Before I bathed, I squeezed the slices of lemon, lime and kaffir lime so that the juice get mixed with the bath water.

 In a ritual bath, one needs to cut the citrus fruits into seven pieces, use seven types of flowers and leaves but then I was not having such a bath.  So there was no need to have everything in 7s.  This was my uplifting citrus bath as I used the pure essence and energy of the citrus fruits to max my alertness and lift my mood. 

After the bath, I left all the citrus fruit slices, flowers and leaves on the bathroom floor as they give off such a tangy and wonderful smell.  I'd only clear them this morning so that the place would have this lemony and limey smell.