We make bath bombs ourselves: 5 cool recipes

What could be nicer at the end of a busy day than a warm bath with colorful fragrant geysers? For those who do not like to overpay, we suggest making the bombs for the bath yourself. The main ingredients can be found in any kitchen - it is citric acid and baking soda. The rest is a matter of taste. You can make bright balls with the smell of citrus, useful and relaxing bombs with essential oils, with pieces of herbs, with rose petals and any others.

Materials

Do-it-yourself bombing will take about 30 minutes.

For work, you need the following materials:

• latex gloves;
• a large bowl;
• a spoon;
• measuring cup;
• small spray bottle filled with water;
• molds.

For molding, you can use baby molds, candy packaging, silicone baking dishes, boxes from Kinder.

Many needlewomen use a plastic Christmas tree toy to make ball-shaped bombs. A hot knife cut it in half, fill the halves, and then press them against each other.

Ingredients

There are many recipes for home bath bombs. You can use ready-made or invent your own.

The composition usually includes the following 5 components:

1. The basis - baking soda and citric acid in a ratio of 2 to 1. When in contact with water, they give a chemical reaction of neutralization of alkali, which is accompanied by the release of carbon dioxide. It is thanks to these components that the bath bombs bubble.
2. Moisturizing components: olive, almond, sea-buckthorn, coconut oil, as well as wheat germ oil, shea butter, cocoa and macadamia. Any of these oils cares for the skin, nourishes it and moisturizes.
3. Dyes. For coloring, you can use liquid and powder food colors, ground colored sea salt.
4. Flavors: food flavors, cosmetic fragrances, essential oils. The latter additionally play the role of a healing component. For example, lavender and sage oils soothe, peppermint and citrus - invigorate.
5. Useful supplements: dry cream, sea salt, clay. Favorably affect the skin and saturate it with useful elements.

How to decorate a bomb? For the decor, dried herbs flowers, coffee grains, sea salt, sparkles, rose petals are used. Jewelry is placed at the bottom of the molds or tamped in the middle of the mixture.

Nuances to Know

Despite the simplicity of preparing bombs for the bath, many beginners do not succeed. All the subtleties that you need to know are to blame:

• Do not overdo it with water! Often you can hear advice to bring the powder mass to a state of wet or wet sand. This is a big mistake. Water must be added at least, otherwise a reaction will begin, after which the bomb will increase in size, disintegrate and foam poorly. If aqueous flavors and oils are used, you do not need to add another liquid at all. The mass should be practically dry.
• Mix the mixture with gloved hands. It is quite difficult to break all the lumps with a spoon and rub the dye into the dry mixture. Hands do it much more productively and faster.
• Take a large bowl. The composition should occupy the third part of the plate, otherwise during mixing it will spill out over the edges.
• Tamp carefully. It is necessary to pour the powder in small portions, each well pressed with a spoon. Then the bomb will turn out to be tight and will not fall apart when you take it out of the mold.
• To obtain a spherical shape, pour the mixture into halves with a slide. Then force them against each other. Excess powder will spill out.So the halves are fastened most securely. Do not use water for bonding.
• Dry the bombs in vivo. No need to leave them in molds. This is a common mistake. So that the moisture evaporates, and the form does not deteriorate, you need to lay out the bombs on a film in a dry room. For example, in the kitchen near the stove.
• Store them in a dry place wrapped in cling film. Balls can even react to an excess of moisture in the air. They should never be stored in the bathroom. Place them in a dry place, pre-wrapping with cling film. In this form, they can lie and not spoil for months.

How to make the bomb foam abundantly? To obtain a stable foam in the composition, you can add cocosulfate (dry shampoo), Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate, foaming agent "Fluffy foam". You need to look for funds in specialized stores for the manufacture of cosmetics. They are added strictly according to the instructions, since they are quite harmful to the skin in case of an overdose. It is also important to wear a respirator when adding blowing agents to prevent volatile substances from entering the respiratory tract.

Step-by-step instruction

At home, bath bombs are made according to the same pattern. Step-by-step instruction:

1. Add citric acid, baking soda, and other dry ingredients in the recipe to the bowl. Mix everything thoroughly, breaking the lumps.
2. Now it’s the turn of the liquid components: oils, flavors and dye. Drip them on top of the powder, and then mix until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
3. If the mixture is completely dry, sprinkle it with water from a sprayer from a distance of 30–40 cm. At the same time, continuously shuffle it with a spoon to avoid waterlogging and, as a result, a chemical reaction.
4. Fill the molds with the resulting mixture. Tamp well. To make a sphere-shaped bomb, connect 2 semicircular shapes to each other.
5. Carefully remove the bomb from the mold, gently tapping the bottom and edges.
6. Dry the bombs outdoors for 3-12 hours.
7. You can take a fragrant bath!

What about the harm of bath bombs? The main ingredients, soda and lemon, are alkali and acid. In direct contact with the skin, they can cause irritation. But in a large bath, their concentrations are negligible and cannot cause significant harm.

Fears should be caused by essential oils. They can cause an allergic reaction, so they must be tested before use. Drop the ether on your wrist and follow the reaction for a day.

5 best recipes

We offer recipes for the most popular bath bombs. Adhering to them, you certainly will not be disappointed.

1. Funny bombs for children. Kids really like bright bombs, and especially seething sparkling geysers. Mix 6 tablespoons of soda, 3 tablespoons of citric acid and 10–20 drops of flavor. Of the essential oils for children, tea tree, ylang-ylang, lavender, mandarin, fennel, bergamot are suitable. Divide the mixture into 3 parts and color in different colors with food coloring. Choose interesting molds and lay the mixture with multi-colored layers. Pour about 0.5 teaspoon of glitter into the middle. Dry the bombs, and then please the child by immersing yourself in a world of magic and fairy tales.
2. Hearts. Such bombs will set the couple in a romantic mood right after taking a bath. Mix 200 g of soda and 100 g of lemon, mix. Add aphrodisiac essential oils: 5 drops of ylang-ylang, patchouli and jasmine. Drop 7-10 drops of red dye. Grind the mass. Use heart shaped tins.
3. Foaming bath bombs. To make foaming balls, you need to mix 300 g of soda, 150 g of citric acid, 50 g of sodium cocosulfate, 5 g of olive or almond oil, 2.5 g of flavoring.
4. Healing bombs from headache, fatigue, nasal congestion. To 200 g of baking soda and 100 g of lemon need to add 1 tbsp.spoonful of sea buckthorn oil, 5 drops of peppermint essential oil, 5 drops of lemon oil, 3 drops of cedar oil and 3 drops of eucalyptus oil, as well as dye.
5. Bath bombs that moisturize and nourish the skin. In a bowl mix 4 tbsp. tablespoons of soda, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of citric acid, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sea salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dried cream (milk), 1 tbsp. a spoon of cosmetic clay, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of olive oil, food coloring and flavoring. Then the mixture, if necessary, moisten and distribute in molds.

If you want to get more foam from the bomb, you need to throw it into the bath at a time when water is still being collected.

Home-made bath bombs are as good as purchased in quality and effectiveness. And if you delve into the technique, then making them is as simple as kneading the dough on pies. Use these recipes or show your imagination and create your own unique ball. And remember: the fresher the bomb, the more it will bubble.