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And now I have!
I used a mix of 2 recipes, the Instructables which is written in American, and Jackie' French's recipe from the Women's Weekly Home Library "Natural Solutions - Recipes for Health, Beauty, home, and Garden".
I found that mixing them both seemed to work, but I am still slightly put out by the fact I'm not actually sure how much oil went into the mix, or that the instructables one doesnt tell you how long it will take to dry, though I do like that in the comments apparently the oil is added for moisturizing skin, not for any other purpose, as it means I can fiddle with that a bit later.
In the end, the basic mix was like this:
1 cup citric acid
1 cup bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup cornflour
1 teaspoon of essential oils ( I used 2 mLs of Rose, 2 mLs of Mont Blanc, and 1 mL of Sandalwood from my dodgy balinese kit) Both recipes actually suggest 2 teaspons of EOs, but I wasn't feeling generous.
a few drops of yellow and a drop of red food colouring (I was hoping for a kind of peach colouring)
and... oil. I don''t actually know how much oil. I would have liked to though
I am sure I had instructions that required sifting, and I rather like sifting, and so we sifted. Then mixed. Um. Combine all ingredients except the confectioner's colour and mix well. Add colour drop by drop m,ixing after additions. Slowly add the oil until you can form themixture into balls. Form tablespoons into balls and leave to set for bertween 4 days to 3 weeks.
So, we mixed the dry ingredients, and I chucked in a handful of chamomile flowers. This is my relaxing bath bombs. (They are for me for Wednesday nights so I can have a relaxing glass of wine, a bath, and then settle in for some hard core quality alone time.) I added the drops of colour into 2 tablespoons of oil, which was funny because they don't mix. Oops. Ah well. So we add oil, mixy mixy mixy. Add more oil. Mixy mixy mixy. Add more oil. Mixy mixy mixy. Now, V had had lollies last night and was still a bit off his trolly, so this was an exciting time. It's kind of... well, there's dots of all sorts of stuff, giving a cute speckled look, but you know? Next time, I might sift it after adding the colour and the essential oils, or else experiment next time with using a small amount of water, as per the Instructable does.
I let V have a tiny cupful (as in, a salad dressing cup from tupperware sized cup) to go and play with to try and get him out of my hair. It seems to foam requisite amounts when dumped in all at once. :-)
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I used a mix of 2 recipes, the Instructables which is written in American, and Jackie' French's recipe from the Women's Weekly Home Library "Natural Solutions - Recipes for Health, Beauty, home, and Garden".
I found that mixing them both seemed to work, but I am still slightly put out by the fact I'm not actually sure how much oil went into the mix, or that the instructables one doesnt tell you how long it will take to dry, though I do like that in the comments apparently the oil is added for moisturizing skin, not for any other purpose, as it means I can fiddle with that a bit later.
In the end, the basic mix was like this:
1 cup citric acid
1 cup bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup cornflour
1 teaspoon of essential oils ( I used 2 mLs of Rose, 2 mLs of Mont Blanc, and 1 mL of Sandalwood from my dodgy balinese kit) Both recipes actually suggest 2 teaspons of EOs, but I wasn't feeling generous.
a few drops of yellow and a drop of red food colouring (I was hoping for a kind of peach colouring)
and... oil. I don''t actually know how much oil. I would have liked to though
I am sure I had instructions that required sifting, and I rather like sifting, and so we sifted. Then mixed. Um. Combine all ingredients except the confectioner's colour and mix well. Add colour drop by drop m,ixing after additions. Slowly add the oil until you can form themixture into balls. Form tablespoons into balls and leave to set for bertween 4 days to 3 weeks.
So, we mixed the dry ingredients, and I chucked in a handful of chamomile flowers. This is my relaxing bath bombs. (They are for me for Wednesday nights so I can have a relaxing glass of wine, a bath, and then settle in for some hard core quality alone time.) I added the drops of colour into 2 tablespoons of oil, which was funny because they don't mix. Oops. Ah well. So we add oil, mixy mixy mixy. Add more oil. Mixy mixy mixy. Add more oil. Mixy mixy mixy. Now, V had had lollies last night and was still a bit off his trolly, so this was an exciting time. It's kind of... well, there's dots of all sorts of stuff, giving a cute speckled look, but you know? Next time, I might sift it after adding the colour and the essential oils, or else experiment next time with using a small amount of water, as per the Instructable does.
I let V have a tiny cupful (as in, a salad dressing cup from tupperware sized cup) to go and play with to try and get him out of my hair. It seems to foam requisite amounts when dumped in all at once. :-)
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