Bath Bombs are a bit like huge alka-seltzers for your bath, drop one into your tub full of warm water, and watch while they whirl and spin releasing their skin softening ingredients and beautiful fragrances. Bath Bombs were made really popular by the shop ‘Lush’, and now you can buy Bath Bombs of all shapes and sizes in many shops, however they can be costly, but in actual fact, they are really quite inexpensive to create, and you can make bath bombs in your own kitchen, whats more you can have the all the delightful benefits of the bath bomb experience, whilst saving a lot of money, and being to make them as fabulous gifts for friends and family too! .
Beginners Recipe for Bath Bombs
As a beginner I always suggest to keep it simple, when making your first bath bombs, use the basic ingredients without adding any extras such as oils and butters, until you have perfected the technique, then move on to using more delicious ingredients once you are more confident and speedier when blending.
You will need the following :
large mixing bowl Kitchen scales (ideally that weigh in 1 gram increments) finger spray bottle or also known as Spritzer containing clean cold water or witch hazel domed shape moulds or round shape moulds, (makes it much easier to remove if rounded or domed shape) Basic Ingredients: English soap Beginners Bath Bomb Kit which contains the following: (Makes approx 8 – 10 Bath Bombs)- Bicarbonate of Soda
- Citric Acid
- Cosmetic Grade Colours
- Fragrance Oil
- Re usual plastic moulds
- Glitters
- Botanicals - Petals
- Cellophane Bags for gift wrapping
- Instruction Brochure
(If not purchasing a kit, then the ratio is 300g of Sodium to 100g to Citric Acid plus a few drops of fragrance and some colourants) Instructions
- Mix the sodium Bicarbonate and the citric acid into the mixing bowl
- Sieve the mixture ensuring there are absolutely no lumps.
- Adding the colorant – IMPORTANT only use a teeny weeny amount! Remember less is more! If you’re using liquid colour you will just need a few drops & you will need to mix it in quickly to prevent the bomb fizzing. If you’re using a powdered colour simply add a teen weeny pinch, at a time, until you have your desired colour, the colouring will look a lot lighter, once your bath bomb hits the water it will deepen in colour dramatically again, I always recommend that use only a teeny weeny pinch, a tip of the teaspoon is all you need.
- Measure 10ml of either fragrance or essential oil into mixture. Most essential or fragrance oils will not cause the mixture to fizz, but certain citrus oils may, so if this happens, mix in quickly and thoroughly.
- Do not leave the mixture to stand or it will slowly start to set.
- Important – Blending with the finger spray bottle
- Now this is the slightly tricky bit, with your finger spray bottle full of clean cold water or witch hazel, spritz onto your mixture, whilst stirring with the other hand. Spritz, then stir quickly, spritz then stir again, until your mixture begin to look a little wet and when your sqeeze some in your hand it begin to hold its shape, see my picture. If in doubt sprit then squeeze a bit, pop back in your bowl and spritz & stir again then squeeze until you are happy with the consistency.
- IT MUST ONLY JUST HOLD TOGETHER when you squish your mixture in your hand, too much water and it will simply begin to fizz, not enough and it will fall apart
- When it is sticking together push your mixture into the moulds, as hard as possible to fill the mould, and fill each half of your bath bomb mould with the mixture. Press the 2 halves together and if you are using moulds that come with clips, clip together.
- Leave to dry for approximately 30 minutes then ever so gently remove one of the moulds, leave the bath bomb to harden on a dry surface, for approx 20 minutes then remove the other half of the mould. You may need to tap the mould to remove it, be careful as they are still very fragile. Leave for as long as possible to harden fully, I leave mine overnight to be sure. Hints and Tips: If you would like to make a two tone bath bomb using either a basic white with a colour or 2 different coloured bath bomb, at the initial stage of weighing out the mixture, then split into two different bowls, and proceed as the instructions, When putting the mixture into your moulds, simply alternate pressing the mixture into the moulds, Adding Petals and Botanicals, pop these into the base of your moulds before adding the mixture, this will ensure they are on the top of your finished bath bomb and will be visible! Add some glitter, again sprinkle into the base of your mould before adding the mixture to the mould, this will ensure your finished bath bomb will have a beautiful glitzy shimmer . Using colourants, you should always use cosmetic grade colours, however it is possible to use general food colourants too. REMEMBER DO NOT ADD TOO MUCH COLOUR AS IT WILL DYE YOUR BATH AS WELL AS YOURSELF AND YOUR TOWELS. Examples of a pretty pink rose bath bomb, using rose petals and fragranced with a English Rose scent.
Novelty ‘Boot Bath Bomb’ I made one of these from a Soap Making Mould. I made this for my friend who is a keen gardener, along with some fab gardeners soothing hand balm and soap.
Once your have mastered the techniques, it is easy to create some fabulous and unique bath bombs, just use your imagination and have lots of fun! To purchase one of my English Soap Co Beginners Bath Bomb Kits, this is a secure payment via Paypal. Beginners Kit £10.00 plus UK P + P Cost £4.50
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