Making bath bombs

2023 Author: Anita Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 18:44

Wapping around in warm water is one of life's sweet pleasures, especially after playing in the snow. And that bliss is even greater when topped off with kid-made bath bombs.

The basic recipe

Ingredients

• A glass of baking soda
• A quarter glass of cream of pie
• Half a glass of cornstarch
• Half a glass of Epsom s alt or sea s alt
• 2 teaspoons of essential oil
• A tablespoon of any moisturizing oil (sweet almond, coconut, olive)
• Food coloring
• A little water in a spray bottle
• Moulds of your choice

Preparation

• Mix the powders.
• Mix the liquids.
• Pour the liquids over the powders, slowly, mixing well as you go, with your hands. Be careful, it must not foam!
• The texture should be crumbly, but the material should still keep the shape you give it.
• Add a little water if you need.
• Take a mold of your choice and compact it with the preparation. Tamp well.
• Let stand overnight before unmolding.

Blueberry Avocado Oil Bath Bombs

Ingredients

• 1 part baking soda
• ½ slice of cornstarch
• ¼ slice of cream of pie
• 1 tablespoon avocado oil
• Vegetable dye
• Blueberry floral water spray
• Sugar decorations (for cakes)

Preparation

• Mix all the powders with a whisk for a good minute.
• Add the hydrosol or floral water using a spray until the mixture looks like wet sand. Be careful, above all, do not add too much floral water.
• Add the tablespoon of vegetable oil and stir well.
• Add colorant if liquid colorant.
• Add a few drops of essential oil.
• Cast your bath bombs.
• Insert sugar decorations, insert before mixing.
• Leave to rest for 24 hours before unmolding.

Unicorn bath bombs

They are everywhere. The little ones, and also the big girls, love them. Unicorns are all the rage. It’s a somewhat inexplicable phenomenon, but that’s how it is! So, let's not spoil our pleasure and let's go to the land of glitter.

Bath Bomb Ingredients

• 225 grams of citric acid
• 450 grams of baking soda
• 28 grams of shea butter
• 2 teaspoons of essential oil of your choice
• 1/2 teaspoon pink food coloring
• 1/2 teaspoon yellow food coloring
• 1/2 teaspoon blue food coloring
• Water
• Glitter

Ingredients for the little horns

• 28 grams of glycerin
• Gold Mica 24k

Preparing bath bombs

• Prepare three mixing bowls. One with pink dye, one with yellow dye and one with blue.
• In half-ball molds, put a pinch of mixture of each color.
• Compress.
• Turn out onto a baking sheet.
• Sprinkle glitter bombs.

Preparation and installation of small horns

• In glycerine, carve horns, dipped in gold mica.
• Install the horns on the bath bombs and secure them with melted glycerine.

La vie en rose

Ingredients

• A glass of baking soda
• A quarter glass of cream of pie
• Half a glass of cornstarch
• Half a glass of Epsom s alt or sea s alt
• 2 teaspoons rose water
• A tablespoon of any moisturizing oil (sweet almond, coconut, olive)
• A little water in a spray bottle
• Rose Petals
• Moulds of your choice

Preparation

• Mix the powders.
• Mix the liquids.
• Pour the liquids over the powders, slowly, mixing well as you go, with your hands. Be careful, it must not foam!
• The texture should be crumbly, but the material should still keep the shape you give it.
• Add rose petals.
• Add a little water if you need.
• Take a mold of your choice and compact it with the preparation. Tamp well.
• Let stand overnight before unmolding.

Inspiration: Black Confetti

Lemon bath bombs

Ingredients

• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1 cup baking soda
• ¼ cup Epsom s alt
• 1 cup citric acid
• Lemon and orange essential oils
• Red and yellow food coloring (20 drops in all)
• Spray water bottle
• Mussels

Preparation

• Mix the powders.
• Mix the liquids.
• Pour the liquids over the powders, slowly, mixing well as you go, with your hands. Be careful, it must not foam!
• The texture should be crumbly, but the material should still keep the shape you give it.
• 10 drops of essential oils (5 of each).
• Add a little water if you need.
• Take a mold of your choice and compact it with the preparation. Tamp well.
• Let stand overnightbefore unmolding.

Our tips

• Wear gloves.
• Use utensils that you will no longer use for cooking.
• Use stainless steel utensils since plastics and wood retain odors and remain stained.
• The smaller the bombs, the less crumbly they will be.
• For pregnant womenand children under 3 years old, it is best to avoid essential oils.
• Using silicone moulds… it's more efficient.