DIY Bath bombs
This Xmas, I am making a whole bunch of handmade gifts for my family and friends. The whole idea is to make a skin pamper box for the girls and the top items on my list are fizzy bath bombs. Bath bombs make baths smell marvelous, have a calming and relaxing effect on the skin and mind, while the fizz coming from baking soda and citric acid, cleanses and tones the skin.
I hope you will enjoy this tutorial!!
Suzanah
Ingredients:
- 1 part of citric acid
- 3 parts of baking soda
- ½ part of oil - melted coconut oil, sweet almond oil, olive oil, etc. all of them work well. I used sweet almond oil
- Food coloring – optional
- Essence oil - lavender, mint, lemon, orange, mix of essence oils all are marvelous. I used lavender oil in white, orange oil in orange, lemon oil in yellow and spearmint in green.
How to make it:
1. All of the tools must be completely dry or the ingredients will start to dissolve in them.
2. Mix soda, citric acid, oil, essence oil and food coloring
3. The mix should have a consistency of a wet sand if it doesn’t add some more oil. If the mix has not enough of oil he ready bombs will fall apart.
4. When consistency is right, place the mix in the forms and leave for couple of hours or overnight to harden.
Delightful idea. I'm sure they'll be appreciated. I'll bet it's smells wonderful when you're assembling them, too.
Thank you!! and yes the smell is great. My whole kitchen smells like mix of citruses and lavender.
Yay! A recipe that makes sense and is easy, thank you! I tried to make bath bombs for Christmas presents last year but the recipe called for witchhazel and my bombs bombed. They expanded and retracted several times, it was a MESS!
I will try your recipe this week. I am excited!!
Thanks @yoginiofoz!! I hope this time they will work out for you :) I had a situation before when bombs were expending but later I figured that the dye that I used had quite a bit of water in it and caused the bombs to act like this :)
The funny thing is that all I had to do was read the comments below in the blog I was reading. Most of the comments, I found out after the fact, complained that their bath bombs were fizzing just like mine. Oh well!
Great work. I like aromatherapy!
Thank you!!