Make Bath Bombs & Fizzies: {Free Recipes}

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Here’s a collection of recipes and tutorials for making bath bombs (and fizzies). These are a nice, pampering treat to both give and receive (great fillers to tuck into gift baskets). Ingredients are varied and I included a few different ideas to inspire some creativity (round balls, heart shaped, cupcakes and multi-colored examples). Then tucked at the bottom is a video tutorial and another recipe (with tips). Have fun!

marthastewart.com

Snowballs: Made with epsom salts, essential oils, a drop of food coloring.

Fizzies: Ingredients include citric acid, baking soda, witch hazel, coloring, fragrance or essential oil. Use a shaped mold or dome mold to shape them.

handcraftedsoap.blogspot.com

petitelefant.com

Cookie Scoop Method: Ingredients include epsom salt, cornstarch, baking soda, citric acid, essential oil and olive oil. A cookie scoop or plastic easter egg half is used to mold the bombs.

Milk & Honey Hearts: Recipes make about 6 large ones and uses heart shaped molds.

naturalbeautyworkshop.com

makeandtakes.com

Fizzing Cupcakes: Sweet craft project made in paper cupcake liners and frosted with real sugar (Royal Icing).

Cupcakes: Made in silicone cupcake molds, also topped with a real sugar frosting recipe.

thecraftychica.blogspot.com

soap-queen.blogspot.com

Mondo: Ingredients used are citric acid, baking soda, pink grapefruit fragrance oil, witch hazel and red mica to make them pink.

Cubes: Use flexible silicone ice cube trays as molds, recipe included. Display in glass jars once the cubes are hardened.

marthastewart.com

pipii.co.uk

Simple: The ingredients are basic: Corn flour (cornstarch), bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), citric acid, essential oil, food coloring (optional) and water. Use cookie cutters as molds to make creative shapes.

Video Tutorial

Here’s a good video I found showing step-by-step how to make fizzing bath bombs. It’s a bit long at over 7 minutes, but it moves along quickly (includes some fun bloopers at the end)…

Summary:

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

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 mixture. You’ll see the hearts on the outside of the finished product.
• Add dead sea salts to the extra powder mixture you have after making them (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.

Tub Cookies

*First published January 18, 2008 and moved to this page for better organization

This is an interesting recipe, you first cook a batch of bath cookies then add them to the tub after they’ve cooled.

The batch makes 24 which is enough for about 12 soaks (if you use 2 at a time).

My hard copy looks like a photocopy of a newspaper clipping, but I’m not sure which newspaper or who the author is.

Ingredients:

2 cups finely ground sea salt
1/2 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 TBS light oil
1 tsp vitamin E oil
2 eggs
5 drops essential oil (your favorite)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Mix together all ingredients.
• Gently roll dough into balls (approx 1″ in diameter, about 1 tsp).
• Place each on an ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake for 10 minutes until lightly browned.
• Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

To Use: Drop 1 or 2 cookies into a warm bath and allow to dissolve.

Yield: 24 cookies

Also check out these these DIY Salts & Soaks.