Bath Bombs

Who loves a bath and a wine after a long hard week 🙋 who likes to bath with a 'friend' 🙋 who likes that friend to be a bath bomb 🙋

Here is a basic recipe for bath bombs, with three variations! I made these for my sister for her birthday, SSSHH don't tell her, it'll be the bomb (see what I did there 😂 ) they are so super simple to make I might even make some more for myself! This recipe makes about 8-10 mini bath bombs or 4-5 large ones... I went with the mini's because they're cute AF!

YOU"LL NEED:

1 1/2 cups baking soda
1/2 cup citric acid powder
1/2 cup epson salts
1/2 teaspoon coconut oil
an essential oil (of your choosing)
food colouring
you'll also need - Sieve - Mixing bowls - Whisk - Towel - Mould (I used a spherical ice mould)
any additives - Tea? - Sea salt? - Glitter? - Lemon zest? -

I made three types,

- a lemon and lime bomb / which contained a lime ribose tea, lemon zest, lemon essential oil and an orange glitter centre

- an ocean themed bomb / half green, half blue, with a tea tree essential oil, himalayan sea salt centre and a blue/green glitter coating

- a three berry bomb / made with a cranberry and raspberry tea, a strawberry and raspberry essence (I used food grade for this - and it worked just fine... maybe even better than the others) with a pink glitter inside

HOW TO:

1. In your large mixing bowl, using your sieve - sieve together the baking soda and citric acid and then mix in the epson salts - if you want to make different flavours you'll need to split up the mix into different bowls now.

2. Decide what you want to put into your bombs - for this example I made the lemon and lime bomb - so get together your tea, lemon zest, lemon essential oil and a orange glitter, and mix those into your dry ingredients.

3. Now take a tiny bit of coconut oil and grease up your moulds (if your adding a glitter coating, add that in after your oil now) I also added some of the tea into the top of the moulds in this step.

4. Faster is better for these next few steps - you don't want your mix to dry out before you get it in the mould).

5. Using your whisk mix in your coconut oil, essential oil (4-5 drops) and food colouring (4-5 drops) it will start to fizz a bit but thats okay, just stir faster! You want the texture to be like damp sand, so when you squeeze it it sticks together.

6. Now you can put the mix into the moulds, fill and pack the moulds down a bit and then over heap the sides - cram as much in there as you can! (If you want to put glitter centres in.. use your finger to make a small dent in the mix and pour your glitter in then cover it over with mix and press down and heap more mix on top)

7. Then carefully - but quickly you want to push your two mould half's together, HARD! - if the texture is right they should stick together. Success! - if not then pop the mix back in the bowl, clean out the moulds and start again (you might need to add more oil or more baking soda depending on how wet or dry it is)

8. Once the two sides are stuck together you want to remove it from the mould - don't wait - the longer you wait the harder it gets.

9. The bombs will be quite fragile now, so you want to place them on something soft and squishy for them to dry - try a folded bath towel or something along those lines, then you'll want to leave them to dry for 24hrs or at least over night. By then they'll have dried out a lot and should be easy to handle, so you can wrap them up and give them as gifts!

Note: In refection they are super fizzy and make the water super soft and sparkly - Winning recipe! ✨