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I always wanted to make Bathbombs
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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1.5 cups bicarb
1 cup citric acid
2 teaspoons sweet almond oil
up to 10 drops essential oil
drops of food colouring
mix dry ingredients together - I then generally halve them and make 2 x batches with different colour / scent, and 1 tsp almond oil each (although sometimes I add more of that if there are issues with binding).
- add 1 x tsp almond oil to each half, kneed to ensure all dry mixture is dampened. Then on a teaspoon I put the drops of essential oil and some food colouring and mix together before adding to the bicarb & citric acid and kneeding through again. the food colouring mixes with the essential oils fine, even though it doesn't mix with the almond oil.
- swipe non-stick muffin tray with a bit of almond oild. press bathbomb mix firmly into a muffin tray a few spoonfuls at a time - make sure you compress each time before adding more. If you want to add flowers, cinnamon bark etc - put it in the muffin tray before you add the bathbomb mix. Once super compressed, gently turn the tray over, place on a board of some kind, and tap until the bath bomb releases.
- keep added compressed bath bombs to the board, and then put in a dry place for a few days to set.
I haven't actually tried to make balls, all the recipes I had were for compressing into trays.
Note: can also use other shaped trays - I have a heart shaped one (for tarts I think) which makes larger bath bombs. I like to use a few drops of red food colouring and dried rose petals with that shape, they make good gifts.
- sometimes, for no apparent reason, they just won't set (I suspect it is to do with humidity). When this happens, tip the mix into a bowl and break up any clumps. The next day you can spoon it into jars or fancy bottles for a Bath Fizz. This works in exactly the same way when you tip some in a bath (or foot bath), and you can tie decorated tags around the neck of the bottle listing the fragrance / essential oils.
(I also used this method with an old bottle, disgusting grey food colouring and an antiqued label to make some 'Essential Saltes' for a Call of Cthulhu prop)
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10 mLs of oil doesn't seem like a lot.
But cool, next time I will also try your recipe. I have made some into balls, some I pressed into a rounded half cup measure, and they look great, and some I have put into a silicon heart shape mould.
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