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by Robert Lopez
Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate) in your bath is cheap and harmless and it makes the water feel "silkier," but it probably doesn't do anything else youhope it's doing. Contrary to popularbelief, it probably has no significant benefits for most common kinds of aches and pains. Oral magnesium supplementation may be helpful for some types of chronic pain for some people (with magnesium deficiency), and it probably works much better thantrying to soak in it. Topical delivery viacreams is scientifically controversial, and absorption from baths is virtually unstudied:
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