How to Make Homemade Bath Bombs

Bath Bomb Ingredients

• 3 cups Bicarbonate of Soda
• 2 cups Citric Acid
• 6 tablespoons Olive Oil
• Essential Oil
• Dried Flower Petals

Method

1. Blend the Bicarbonate of Soda and the Citric Acid together. These are the two ingredients that will cause all that exciting fizzing and foaming in the bath after you throw them in. Citric acid and Bicarbonate of Soda react to water in this way because of a chemical reaction
2. Mix through some dried flower petals of your choice. Lavender or rose petals are nice, but any petals will work. Add enough so that you get only a few flower petals with each bath bomb. If you add too many flower petals, the mixture will not hold together, even after it has set. If you do not like the idea of flower petals going down your drain, then try homemade Bath Teabags.
3. Now mix through the oils. The oil will bind the bath bombs together, but will not cause a chemical reaction the way water will. Any blend of essential oil can be used. The choice is entirely up to you.
4. If you have bath bomb moulds, fill each half up and over what will fit into them. Now press the two halves together. There needs to be plenty of product in each half otherwise they will not join together in the middle. Press them very firmly together and then carefully separate. There are different ways in which people like to do this. Some prefer to let them sit for a couple of minutes and then gently pull them apart. Others like to twist them slightly before separating. It all comes down to personal preference as well as trial and error. If the bath bombs repeatedly come apart into two halves rather than staying together, you may need to add a little extra olive oil to the mix. Be careful though, if you add too much oil to the blend, the whole lot may never set properly. Note: If you do not have any bath bomb moulds, then you can use many different things as moulds - they just won’t be round. Flat bottom medicine cups can be used; so can small drinking cups. If you want really small ones, you can press them into ice cube trays. The use of moulds are only limited by your own imagination. So go into your kitchen and have a look around to see what can be used.
5. Place the bath bombs onto trays and let them harden for at least 24 hours in the open air. If it is wet and raining or humid outside, this process may take longer, and putting the bath bombs in front of a heater or into a slow oven is advised. Otherwise there may be enough moisture in the air to set the bath bombs off. They will foam slightly before setting. Which is fine, except that sometimes this foaming may prevent the bombs from ever setting.

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