June 16, 2017 – Our Creative Haven

I don’t know about you, but I love trying new things and this week I had a little fun experimenting! A friend of mine sent me this link a little while ago, and suggested I try and make these bath bombs for the blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPqp1hDsM6I

I tried a few recipes that created lovely soaps but I couldn’t get them to fizz, including the link above. But I finally found one to work. The link below is a really simple recipe that creates really cute effective bath bombs!! I have commented below on how I got on using it and a few changes I made from combining other tutorials. I hope you enjoy!

https://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/acatalog/Recipe-Bath-Bomb.html

It was a slightly messy process so I wore gloves. So to begin with I poured 150g of bicarbonate of soda in one bowl and the same into a second bowl. I then mixed 50g of citric acid into each bowl and mixed the contents well. For the colour, I used gel food colouring which worked really well, adding a little at a time until I got an even colour spread. I used some vanilla essential oil (10mls as suggested by TheSoapKitchen, 5mls in each bowl) to add a lovely fragrance.

Then add a tiny bit of water at a time, until the mixture starts to feel firmer and form some shape.

I then used silicone cake cases as a mould, gradually putting some of each mixture into each case, before firmly patting the mixture down. Next up is to let the mixture dry. That is completely dry as if you get over excited like me and remove the cases too quickly, you leave part of the mixture still in the case!