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How to make a bath bomb with your own hands at home: step by step instructions
Children can also be involved in this activity – they will also be interested.
A fragrant bubble bath remains one of the available pleasures in today’s environment. But there are a couple of “buts”. A “tasty” bath bomb costs at least 100 rubles, but I would like to save some money. In addition, you need to go to the store for it, it would also be better to avoid this, as well as unnecessary expenses. However, a bath bomb is easy to make at home by yourself – no supernatural ingredients are needed for this, and besides, it will be completely natural.
What will you need?
First of all, bomb molds: these can be silicone molds or even a baking sheet for muffins, small bowls or sockets (for jam or honey, for example), plastic Kinder egg molds, ice molds. Enthusiasts even keep special forms for round bombs at home, but this is already a luxury. You will also need a pestle, brush, or whisk to mix the ingredients.
The ingredients are also very simple: baking soda, citric acid (by the way, you can make it yourself), vegetable base oil (it is good if it is olive, almond or coconut, but ordinary sunflower is also suitable), aromatic or essential oil (just not that and the other together), food coloring and a little water. Some recipes require cornstarch and Epsom bath salts, but this is optional. You can add beauty: bath beads, dried flowers, or even decorative baking powder.
How to make a bomb: step by step instructions
1. Cooking ingredients:
100 grams of baking soda;
50 grams of citric acid;
25 grams of starch (you can do without it);
25 grams of bath salt (optional);
2 tablespoons of base oil
a few drops of essential oil (orange, lavender, chamomile);
a few drops of food coloring;
some water – for convenience, you can pour it into a bottle with a spray bottle;
decorations.
2. Let’s start mixing. Mix the soda and citric acid thoroughly. If you add starch, so does that. Dry ingredients must be thoroughly rubbed with a pestle or spoon so that they turn into a completely homogeneous mass. At the same stage, you can add a tablespoon of dry cream, then the water in the bath will take on a milky hue.
2. Mix the base oil with essential oil in a separate bowl. Add the dye and mix thoroughly again.
3. Combine dry mixture with oil: Gently add spoon by spoon and mix thoroughly with a whisk.
4. Add decorations: dried herbs, beads or sprinkles, mix thoroughly again.
5. Now the water: Sprinkle the mixture and stir immediately. You should get the consistency of wet sand. If the mixture starts to sizzle, it means you’ve overdone it with the water, so proceed with caution.
6. Ready mass should stick together a little. Once you have achieved the desired consistency, arrange future bombs in shapes and tamp tightly.
7. Now we remember how we played Easter cakes in childhood: turn the mold onto the sheet parchment or silicone mat. The bomb should remain on it. The mold can be pre-lubricated with oil to make it easier to remove the “cake”.
8. Ready bombs you need dry for at least 3 hours, and then you can throw in the bath and enjoy the fragrant bubbles.
Another approach
There are alternative ways to mix ingredients. In some recipes, oils are added directly to the dry mixture, rubbed with a spoon or pestle, and then dye is added. It is advised to grind the mass directly with your fingers so that it is evenly colored. Of course, you need to work with gloves.
Another method: First, mix all dry ingredients in a bowl, except citric acid. In a jar with a lid, mix oils, dye and a little water – about ½ teaspoon. Shake the can vigorously as if mixing a cocktail. Then the liquid mixture is poured into a dry bowl, mixed and only then citric acid is added so that the reaction does not occur prematurely.
And then the sequence is the same: we achieved the desired consistency of the mixture, tamped it into molds, dried the bombs – and we dive into the bathtub.