Today’s feature is a great video showing step-by-step how to make fizzing bath bombs. It’s a bit long at over 7 minutes, but the video moves fast (includes some fun bloopers at the end)…

Video Summary:

Bath bombs soften the skin, they are an emollient and they’re lots of fun–they start to fizz when they hit the water.

Recipe Ingredients:

1 cup baking soda
3/4 cup citric acid (causes the fizzing)
2 TBS white kaolin clay
1 TBS grapeseed oil
2 tsp Polysorbate 80 (or jojoba oil)
little bit of Vitamin E oil
1/4 tsp gel colorant
1/4 tsp Borax
1 tsp Fragrance oil
12 squirts of rubbing alcohol (mixed in 3 squirts at a time)

Quick Tips:

  • Wear gloves when mixing.
  • Mixture should be the consistency of damp sand before you start packing it in molds.
  • For something different, place candy hearts on the inside of the molds before packing in the bath bomb mixture. You’ll see the hearts on the outside of the finished bath bomb.
  • Add dead sea salts to the extra powder mixture you have after making the bath bombs (say you didn’t have enough left to fill another mold), seal in a ziploc bag and mix. Let the powder dry and then you have a nice fizzing bath salt.

Also check out Bath Cookies Recipe, 5 Homemade Bath Salts & Soaks and How To Make Cupcake Bath Fizzies. These make great gifts and basket fillers for homemade gift baskets.

Edit: Fixed Title (sometimes I miss the obvious! ;) )

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