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On steeping a bath
Flowers, oat and warm water, and nowhere else to be. A short note on how we use our bath teas.
A bath tea works the way a pot of tea does: slowly, and only if you let it. Drop the sachet under the tap as the bath fills, so the water runs through it. The oat clouds the water first, then the flowers begin to open, and the scent rises with the steam.
There is nothing to measure and nothing to rinse. The only instruction is to stay.
A bath tea asks for nothing but the time it takes to steep.
How long
Ten minutes is enough for the water to turn. Longer is better for you. Press the sachet now and then to release the oat, and get out before the water goes cold, while the skin is still warm and a little damp.
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