Here is a Friday Flashback about making bath bombs.

Bath bombs  make the perfect Valentine’s Day gift when packaged to look like a bomb along with a tag that says, “You’re the ‘bomb’!”

They would also make cute teacher appreciation gifts!

Homemade Fizzy Bath Bomb Recipe

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How to make  foaming bath bombs

Supplies:

2 Cups Baking Soda

1 Cup Citric Acid

4 teaspoons massage oil ( or 2 teaspoons essential oil and 2 teaspoons olive oil)

Spray bottle with water

mold (60 mm 2 part plastic ball) (I am also thinking the bottoms of two large Easter eggs could be used)

This amount only made 5 bath bombs. If I was making more I would buy the citric acid online in bulk. The small bottle you see pictured (1/2 cup) was $2.50. I purchased it from my local health food store.

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Mix baking soda and citric acid in large mixing bowl. Mix very well! You can use an electric mixer if you like.

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Add in 4 teaspoons of scented massage oil (or other combination of skin safe essential oil for scent and another oil for moisturizing the skin). The scent is personal, so start with a teaspoon or so and add more until you are satisfied. Mix well.

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This next step can be a bit tricky because you don’t want your bath bomb to start fizzing. Start by adding a couple of fine mist sprays of water to your mixture and mix well.

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You will continue spraying until the mixture will clump in your hand when squeezed. (I used 5-8 sprays, however this will depend greatly on your local climate)

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Fill one half of your mold. Pack it tightly.

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Fill the other half of the mold and place them together—don’t snap together. I slightly overfilled each half. When I pushed the two halves together they became a ball.

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Gently remove the ball from mold. If I had problems with the ball coming out easily I dumped the mixture back into my bowl, added a mist of water (carefully), mixed well and then tried again.

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Cut out about a 10 inch circle of black tissue paper.

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Wrap tissue up around your bath bomb and trim if necessary.

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Place a silver pipe cleaner in the center and then wrap a shiny red pipe cleaner around the the tissue paper and silver pipe cleaner. Add a tag and you are finished! You might want to write instructions for using the bath bomb on the back of the tag.

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The bath bomb worked great. It provided fizz, bubbles and fun for my daughter’s bath.

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Enjoy!


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Comments

  1. Great idea! Only thing – – – in this day and age, it really isn’t a wise idea to gift a teacher something wrapped as a bomb. I only say this because I work in the public schools! I am making these for my daughter’s teachers, but instead of wrapping them as bombs I am wrapping them in cellophane and putting them in an ice cream container with a personalized label, since they kind of look like scoops of ice cream.

  2. First off… these are awesome! Did you have to let them dry/harden? I love it! Thanks so much for sharing!

  3. I just stumbled along your blog through google reader. What a great idea. I’ve been looking for inexpensive, homemade gift ideas like this!!
    Thank you!!

  4. This was such a fun idea! I linked from my (norwegian) blog, hope that is ok! I couldn’t find any information about it on your site.

  5. I have done this before and was able to find the citric acid really inexpensively at a local ethnic market. It’s my favorite place to find spices and unique ingredients. Might help someone else out.

  6. These crack me up – how clever! I wish my grocery store carried citric acid, I’m going to have to make a little excursion to Walmart or search Amazon.

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