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"Showers I kind of associate with a morning thing and baths I associate with going to bed," he says. "Growing up in the south, I feel like people take way more baths, just because we do everything slower."

And JT doesn't take any old bath—he has a recipe (one that involves a working knowledge of home made ice cream, be still my heart). "For me, it's all about the salt," he says. "I like to train year round and it's good for the pain. What you do is take Epsom salt or I've even done rock salt, like the type you use to make homemade ice cream—full on rock salt that keeps ice cold because it's just in pure rock form. You pour in a third of a box of Morton rock salt and 30 drops of lavender oil and 30 drops of tea tree oil. The lavender relaxes your muscles and the tea tree heals them."

Timberlake is also known to indulge in a cold bath. "What I really like are cold plunge pools, like 50 degrees. You get in the hot tub and get really, really hot and you go into the plunge pool for like five minutes at a time and get up to your neck. It breaks up all the lactic acid. This is all like really nerdy." Nerdy in a hot, beauty-editor approved kind of way... one that might merit a cold shower, if you know what I mean.

For more of my interview with Justin Timberlake, check out our June issue.

http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2012/05/justin-timberlake-on-bathshes.html