How to Make DIY Foaming Bath Melts

Ingredients

• 250 grams Bicarbonate of Soda (baking soda)
• 200 grams Citric Acid (lemon juice)
• 50 grams Dark Chocolate
• 90 grams Shea Butter
• 2 tablespoons Honey
• 1/2 teaspoon Lecithin
• 1 cap of Food Grade Orange Essence
• Ice cube tray (with large blocks if possible)
• Small icy pole sticks (optional)

Method

1. Use a microwave safe plastic or Pyrex container for this recipe. You will need to add to it the chocolate, shea butter, honey and lecithin. Microwave it on a medium heat in short bursts. Start with 40 seconds and then reheat if needed at intervals of no more than 15 to 20 seconds. You do not want to burn the chocolate and thereby ruin your product. If you do not have a microwave oven, then this process can be done over a very low heat on the stove top, preferably in a double boiler.
2. Once all the ingredients are melted and combined, add the orange essence. This essence can be purchased from the baking section of your local supermarket. Look out for the vanilla extract. The orange essence will be close by. The essence must be fully mixed through the other ingredients.
3. Now you need to add the bicarbonate of soda and citric acid. These two ingredients are what create the foaming effect. It is the same ingredients that also make bath bombs fizz. Bath melts foam instead of fizz because of the high butter content. The oil melts slowly in the warm water, and therefore only a little bit of bicarbonate of soda and citric acid reaches the water at a time. The chemical reaction is slowed down as a result. It is for this reason that these two ingredients are added after the orange essence also. If you were to add the essence now, before it was coated in oil, a reaction would occur. Your bath melts would foam now and not later in the bath. As a result, your product would be ruined.
4. Lightly grease your ice cube tray. Fill each block in the tray with some of your liquid bath melt formula. Pop it into the fridge to let it set a little. Once it is halfway to set, remove it from the fridge and stick an icy pole stick into each cube. Back into the freezer they go now.
5. Let your foaming bath melts set completely before removing them again from the refrigerator. Gently ease each bath melt out and set aside. They can be individually wrapped in cellophane to preserve the life of your product. Or you can simply pop one into the bath now and lay back and enjoy!

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