Top Ten Tips for Making Bath Bombs

1.      Select your Citric Acid carefully; Super fine granules are best. Powder is too volatile, whilst coarse granules have a lumpy appearance and may "bobble" as your bath bombs dry out.

2.      Be fussy about your Bicarb! Fine food grade Sodium Bicarbonate is best. Technical grade may contain unwanted impurities and granular varieties will result in a coarse looking bath bomb.

3.      Want smooth bath bombs? Cornflour helps control the fizzing reaction between the ingredients as you are mixing.

4.      Dry Ingredients = food grade. Some of the ingredients such as Bicarb, Citric & Cornflour can be sourced in food stores.

5.      Wet ingredients = cosmetic grade. Essential oils should be pure or blended with base oils.

6.      Don't use water. Using water to bind your mix causes fizzing & expansion in the mixing process. Vegetable Base Oils work well. Witch Hazel speeds the drying time so that your bath bombs can be safely handled from their moulds within minutes.

7.      Spray your "wet" ingredients onto the mix. If using Witch Hazel to bind, always spritz from a fine mist "finger" spray.

8.      Wear gloves and mix with your hands. You will learn to detect the correct consistency for making the perfect bath bombs, but believe me you will get there faster by using your hands as opposed to a spoon. Simply spray with one hand whilst mixing with the other.

9.      Ensure your moulds are dry. Wet moulds = stuck & stranded creations!

10.  Avoid steamy kitchens! Set your creations aside to dry in a damp free atmosphere. 

Aromatherapy Bath Bombs Recipe

I love bath bombs. Children find bath bombs fascinating and fun to plunk into the tub. Not all commercial-made bath bombs are all-natural, but you can make virtually all-natural bath bombs at home that fizz amazingly well. Making them yourself will also save you at least half the price of what equivalent bath bombs cost from artisans and bath bomb specialty stores.

Citric acid is naturally found in citrus and other fruits. Baking soda is the common name for sodium bicarbonate, is a alkali that reacts wonderfully with citric acid in bath bombs. Pearlescent micas contain naturally forming mica powder colorized with minerals like iron oxides and titanium dioxide.

Aromatherapy bath bomb recipe:

·         1 cup Baking Soda.

·         1/2 cup Citric Acid.

·         1/4 tsp. Powdered Herbs or 1/8 tsp. Pearlescent Mica for color and visual appeal.

·         15 drops Essential Oil.

·         1/4 - 1/2 tsp. Carrier Oil, preferably use a more stable oil like Jojoba since this recipe contains no preservatives.

·         Hydrosol.

Directions:

1.      In a large, clean mixing bowl, add your dry ingredients.

2.      Add your essential oil, drop by drop and stir into the dry ingredients.

3.      Slowly add your carrier/vegetable oil while mixing the ingredients with your hand.

4.      Slowly add your hydrosol to the mixture while simultaneously blending it with your hands.

5.      It does not take much liquid to dampen the mixture to the degree that you need to form bath bombs.

6.      Press the mixture into molds.

Drop one of the bombs into your bath for an aromatic and fizzy bath. Keep your bath bombs in an air tight container.