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Easy Bath Bombs

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021

Bath bombs are a fun and easy homemade Christmas gift for the bath lovers on your list. (For the ones who prefer to shower all the time you can make shower steamers.) You can make a big batch and give them to all of your friends!

I like to use peppermint, vanilla, and orange essential oils around my home during the holidays. Vanilla and Orange creates a warm scent I love and Peppermint is a nice refreshing scent.

Don’t forget to make some for yourself to help you relax during the holidays.

I see many bath bomsbs for sale now but most of the time I’m not happy with the ingredients, because they are often questionable. They can also get pretty pricey. Making your own saves you money and allows you to make sure they contain only safe ingredients.

Put the bath bombs in some cute packaging and they make the perfect holiday gift.

It can be a fun gift for kids too. Just fill them with little toys you already have at home and the kids forgot about. They will have fun to play with them in the bathtub again. It also can help to get them in the bathtub.

I have to recipes for you today. Without and with Cornstarch. The cornstarch in a bath bomb has just one job: It slows down the reaction. The effect is that the fizziness may last 3 or 4 minutes, instead of only seconds.

Recipe 1 without Cornstarch

  • 260 g Baking Soda (52 %)
  • 110 g Citric Acid (22 %)
  • 110 g Epsom Salt (22 %)
  • 18.5 g Coconut Oil (3.7 %)
  • 1.5 g (appr. 45 drops) Essential oil(s) (0.3 %)

 

Recipe 2 with Cornstarch

  • 240 g Baking Soda (52 %)
  • 95 g Citric Acid (22 %)
  • 95 g Epsom Salt (22 %)
  • 50 g Cornstarch (10 %)
  • 18.5 g Coconut Oil (3.7 %)
  • 1.5 g (appr. 45 drops) Essential oil(s) (0.3 %)

 

Optional:
Dried lavender buds
Orange Zest
Violet mica
Food Coloring

 

Scent Variations

  • Orange and Vanilla – Add fifteen to twenty drops Orange EO and ten to fifteen drops vanilla EO.
  • Pure Peppermint
  • Pure Lavender
  • Lavender, Lemon and Peppermint – Add 15 drops of each EO.

 

Instructions:

  1. Grab a large bowl and mix together baking soda, (epsom salt), (cornstarch), citric acid, and dried ingredients, if using.
  2. In another small bowl, mix together coconut oil, water, essential oils, and coloring, if using.
  3. Slowly add the liquid mix to the dry ingredients. Do this slowly as you’re not wanting to have any fizzing. Stir until it looks like wet sand.
  4. Transfer mixture firmly into molds.
  5. Let dry overnight to 24 hours depending on the size.
  6. Gently remove from molds.
  7. Store in an airtight container.

 

Tools

Silicon Mold or Bath Bomb Molds

 

Optional

You can also just mix together the key ingredients and skip the water. Put the mixture in a jar, and you have a nice Bath Salt they then can scoop into their bath.

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