Whole Body Product Junkie: baraka Infused Salt Rinse

If there is a product in the Whole Body department, I have probably tried it. My bathroom vanity shelves are filled with the lotions and potions and make-up found in the Whole Body department at  Whole Foods Market Bethesda. I am a total product junkie and I will be featuring my favorite products in a weekly Whole Body Product Junkie post.

I have come to conclusion that when it comes to cold and flu season, working in an office is basically the grown-up germ equivalent of attending daycare. Your cubicle neighbors germs become your germs and the circle of sickness hops from one desk to another claiming another victim. We just don’t get naptime. Or recess.

So at the first echo of a sniffle or a sneeze in the office, I am running for the neti pot. During my first year at Whole Foods, I started drinking the Kool-Aid on the neti pot concept and my nasal passages are all the happier for it.  While certainly other factors can and have played a role, allergy, sinus, and cold and flu seasons all hit me with a little less force since I started using the neti pot. (And that sound you hear is me knocking heartily on wood as I typed that.)

I initially felt like I was shoving a genie’s bottle up my nose as I sent a mixture of non-iodized salt and warm water to clear things out but I quickly got over that. And then the disgusting shock of the junk that is rinsed out settled in. Seriously, this sight is a wake-up call. Prepare yourself for this if you start using one!

But I really could not live without my neti pot; I use it every day all year long, twice a day during winter, and 28 times after a flight (slight exaggeration but airplane air freaks me out!). I even have a travel neti pot that is a must-pack in my suitcase but is small enough to not have to sacrifice packing very important items, like seven pairs of shoes.

And during the winter months, I have a new item in my cold & flu fighting neti pot toolbelt, the baraka Infused Salt Rinse.

The rinse is made up of the standard quick-dissolving salt that I normally use in a neti pot but has a few essential oils added to the salt that work to discourage the growth of pathogens. As an added bonus, the essential oil combination of Virginia cedarwood, palmarosa, green myrtle, fir balsam, and rosemary also makes you feel like inhaled a Christmas tree.

Find the baraka Infused Salt Rinse in Aisle 3 of the Whole Body Department at Whole Foods Bethesda, just above the Emergen-C.  Trying adding it to your winter healthy you routine!

Rebecca is Whole Foods Market Bethesda’s store blogger and also the blogger behind I Wanna Be a Domestic Goddess.