Steps for Making Handmade Bath Bombs

If you want to make your bath time more interesting and fun, try using bath bombs or bath fizzers. Bath bombs can do a lot of things—they produce fizzing sounds, add scent and fragrant, and make a lot of interesting movements such as spin, whirl, and swirl.

You can buy bath bombs, but you can also make them yourself. Handmade bath bombs are very easy to make as long as you have the right ingredients and proper tools and equipment. Here are the steps for making handmade bath bombs.

• Prepare your ingredients—a cup of citric acid, 2 cups of baking soda, witch hazel, pigment or colorant, essential or fragrant oils, and soap moulds.

• Mix the citric acid and baking soda really well. Use a mixer if you have one at home, especially if you are planning to make a lot of handmade bath bombs. Incorporating these two ingredients thoroughly prevents you from having a rough bath bomb. You do not want a grainy bath bomb for your bath time. It should be something smooth and firm.

• After making sure that the mixture has been thoroughly blended, add in the pigment or colorant little by little, until you reached the colour that you like. Do not add too much colorant at one time because the real colour will appear after you mix in the witch hazel.

• Depending on your preference, add the fragrance or oil. Some people do not want their bath bombs to have smell, but if you want it to smell really nice, then choose an appropriate fragrance.

• Using a squirt bottle, spray the witch hazel to your mixture. Do this while you are mixing the mixture with your other hand using a wooden spoon or a stirring rod. Do not spray too much witch hazel, unless you already want your mixture to fizz prematurely and to get really wet.

• After the witch hazel, check the consistency of your mixture. If it is sticky already, you can now put it in your soap moulds. Do this immediately if you do not want to have a stone like mixture which you cannot mould. Your soap moulds should be dome-shaped, to create that common bath bomb shape. But you can improvise on your soap moulds. You can use an empty Pringles tube. All you need is a little creativity and imagination to create a unique handmade bath bomb.

• After placing them into moulds, wait for several minutes and take out your handmade bath bombs. Let them dry for another 3 to 4 hours outside the soap mould. This will ensure firm and compact handmade bath bombs. Harder bath bombs are great especially if you take a bath for a long time because they last longer.

There are other recipes which you can make aside from the steps discussed above. You can have a moisturizing bath bomb, water softening bath bomb, or a milk bath bomb. They only vary in ingredients. But all of them are very easy to make and they are a very fun way of cleaning yourself.