Ingredients:
combine the following 3 ingredients in a bowl and mix
1.25 cup baking soda
.5 cup tapioca starch
2 tbsp cream of tartar
In separate container heat up .5 tsp sodium lactate for 10 seconds
Add these next 3 ingredients to the sodium lactate and mix gently
4 tbsp decyl glucoside
2 tbsp coco betaine
fragrance
Directions:
Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients and mix well.
You should have a crumbly wet sand texture that sticks together.
Press mixture into bath bomb molds or other shape molds that have little to no details. Allow to sit for a few days to completely dry.
Testing video was done when bombs were 5 days old.
Please note.. This recipe was printed and given freely for the sole purpose of FREE sharing. Changing one or two ingredients and calling it your own original recipe is not cool! Please do not do this and then put it up for sale. Feel free to share this recipe with all. No special permission is required...
Everyday Basic Bath Bomb Recipe (makes 6 or 7 - 4 ounce bombs depending on how you pack them)
Dry Ingredients:
• 2 cups baking
soda
• 1 cup powdered citric acid
• 1/2 cup powdered
epsom salt
Wet Ingredients: • 2 Tbsp light oil
• 2 tsp fragrance (be sure to check usage rate and adjust as
needed)
• liquid coloring (to your shade preference)
Instructions:
1.Sift your
baking soda and Epsom salt into a mixing bowl and mix well.
2. Add your oil, color and fragrance to the dry
ingredients and mix to incorporate all the wet ingredients evenly. Make sure you are scraping the bottom and
sides of the bowl.
3. Sift your citric acid into the mixing bowl and mix it well.
Molding: 1. Molding is the fun part.
You can use the plastic ball ornaments found at hobby shops, metal ball
molds from Xen, silicone baking molds, candy molds etc… Loads of options. I prefer to use the Xen metal molds in the 2
inch size for my standard bombs.
2. First thing to do is make sure you mix is ready
for molding. To test this you are going
to grab a handful of the mix and squeeze.
If it clumps and stays clumped it is ready. If it doesn’t stay clumped you will need to
spritz it with some moisture to get it to a clumping state. I like to use rubbing alcohol however you
can also use witch hazel and water. Be
aware that water and witch hazel will activate the mix more than alcohol so you
will spritz and mix, spritz and mix as quickly as you can so that you get as
little of a reaction as possible.
Alcohol will also activate the mix but not nearly as quickly.
3. Now your mix is ready. Get your mold and pack them firm. Not hard just firm. If you are using the ball molds I suggest
mounding the mix in both halves lightly and them firmly pressing them
together. Let it sit for 3 seconds and
tap the mold with a spoon to release the seal and your bomb will pop right out.
4. If you are using plastic decorative molds you
will need to pack them in tightly and use the back of the spoon to smooth them
out. They don’t need to be
perfect. Let it sit for 30 seconds and
flip the mold over. If your bomb does
not pop right out then give it a gentle tap with the spoon. Keep in mind that the more detail the mold
has the harder it will be to release from the mold. (This is why I choose to use the round ball
molds)
5. Allow your bombs to air dry for 24 hour before
packaging. You do not want any moisture
in them when you bag or jar them up or that moisture trapped in there will
activate your bombs leaving a yucky mess.
I would like to thank the creator of this recipe. It is actually a very good recipe and does wonderfully well with embeds to make it spin and color.
Now we all know that bath bombs are tricky little buggers. Some have issues with humidity making them warty and soft while others have no issues at all with that sort of thing. Thankfully I am one of the lucky ones and never have that problem. Now that being said this recipe has a lot of options. I will put them in parenthesis so you know my alterations and they will be marked with red ink.
Dry ingredients: 30oz baking soda 16oz citric acid 2oz SLSa (you can leave this out) 2.7oz cornstarch (tapioca starch and arrowroot powder both work) .4 oz clay of choice (I prefer Kaolin in the white variety) Add dry colorant here. (Lake dyes are what will give you the color blast. Straight dyes as well) Wet ingredients: 2.6oz cocoa butter (2oz without SLSa) (You can also use coconut oil 93degree at 2.3 oz) .7 oz polysorbate 80 (.5 without SLSa)THIS MAY BE LEFT OUT BUT IT IS WHAT KEEPS THE BUTTER FROM FLOATING ON THE WATER AND COLORS FROM STICKING TO YOUR TUB BUT IT IS NOT A NEEDED ITEM IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE IT. REPLACE WITH OIL OF CHOICE. 1.3oz Fragrance of choice (1 oz without SLSa) (i generally go by smell rather than amount) .4 oz witch Hazel
Directions: While mixing in a stand mixer or with a electric hand mixer slowly pour in the wet ingredients. Add liquid colors at this point. (I find that hand mixing works just as well and less mess) Mix well this is very Important It may feel too dry, it's not just mold and go.
If your mix starts to not mold a few things can be done.
First try cleaning out your mold. Sometimes the mix can get sticky in there. Clean it well and try again.
If cleaning your mold does not work, spray your hand with witch Hazel and mix mix mix. (witch hazel assists in the hardness of the bomb but 90% or higher alcohol works as well)
Try again.
Hint when trying to mold round bombs BE SURE to have something metal to tap the top/bottom and lightly around the ring to help dislodge any air pockets that may cause the bomb to pull apart and not stay around coming out of the mold. If you try to unmold and it wont EASY , STOP!!! Tap again!!
The online bath & body community has so many wonderful things to offer. Today I am going to share with you a few (or more) of my favorite youtube tutorials. Grab ya some coffee or beverage of your choice and enjoy!
This video is such a great one to watch. It is a technique called SBHP which I absolutely love. Marlon Jiles did a wonderful job explaining the process. Free tutorials are just as good as paid ones. Give this a shot and save some money.
This is another of my favorites. Bernadette Munguia did a wonderful job of showing us hot process soapmaking in a crock pot. Beautiful show!
Wanna make bath bombs but don't have citric acid.. Well here is the solution to your problem. Bath bombs made with cream of tartar instead. Well done!
This video is a must watch for you bath bomb makers. Lex Hart shows you how to make spinners and floaters. She also includes her recipe. Great video Lex!
To make things even better. Here is the tutorial Lex created on how to make the embeds she talks about in the previous video :)
To further assist you in your embed making for bath bombs. The beautiful Miss Irene of Body Bonbon has shared her recipe and technique for making her version of embeds. If you have ever seen her bath bombs you will definitely be pleased with this video.
Just a little sample of Irene's work. Be sure to watch all her amazing videos. You will be happy you did when you see all the color shows.
This bubble bar video is compliments of Bonnie from Good Earth Spa. She includes her recipe as well (I have provided it below as well) as a bubble test at the end of the video. She also shows you how she makes her rolls.
2 teaspoons, more or less Fragrance or Essential Oil
Colorant of your choice.
**** Lana's personal note: Try to use the least amount of glycerin as you can. The less you use the faster it will dry**********
Okay.. so now that you have watched some videos.. you can use the recipes I have shared in previous posts or you can use the ones provided in the videos to create fantastic gifts for your friends and family. All of these can be made and ready in time for Christmas. Who doesn't love usable presents :)
Now aren't these the coolest things? Drop one or 2 in the bathtub and get an ocean of color. another cool thing is that these can be put into bath bombs for a huge color explosion. My friend Irene from Body Bonbon makes the coolest bath bombs ever including ones made from a cookie cutter as a mold.. Check out her youtube channel to see all her demos. It really is fantastic. Anyway.. I make standard boring bath bombs and wanted to figure out how she was doing it. I did a quick search and found some really great information. I decided to dupe another recipe and well.... I love them. I am sharing this recipe. It is based on the ingredients listed with a few minor changes.
Inspired by Na*kedHBP's "Color Tab Recipe" Body BonBons youtube tutorial and Lex Harts youtube tutorial
Have you ever wondered how people who make bath bombs get the really cool colors to shoot out of the bomb as it floats around the tub? Well let me help you out. They use colored inserts made a bit faster fizzing with loads of dye and put those inside the standard bath bombs. When this hits the water it will begin to dissolve and when it hits the embeds they will fizz faster than the normal bomb creating a spinning bomb that shoots out color. That is all there is to it. Easy Peasy... Now get to work and get creative.
Dry Ingredients:
1 Cup Baking Soda
1 Cup Citric Acid
Wet Ingredients:
Your choice of alcohol, witch hazel or water for spraying (I prefer alcohol)
Optional Ingredients:
1 Tbsp Kaolin Clay or Cream of Tartar (optional ingredient that gives little benefit for the amount used per batch other than it is said to help with hardening)
1 tsp Colorant of choice (I like to do one color at a time)
1/2 TBSP Polysorbate 80 (optional to assist in emulsifying the oil in the bathtub so it isn't all floating on the top as well as to keep your dyes from sticking to the tub)
1 Tbsp oil of choice ( I prefer jojoba oil or monoi oil)
fragrance
Fragrance oil is optional with these.. If you know you are going to be using these in a specific bath bomb then adding fragrance to them would be a good thing.... but... if you are making these in bulk then leaving them unscented might be your better option. Measure out all of your dry ingredients EXCEPT the citric acid. Mix them in a bowl and blend them well. If you are using a powder color this is when you would add it. Measure out all your liquid ingredients into a mixing cup and blend well. If you are using a liquid color this is when you would add it.
Slowly mix your wet ingredients into your dry ingredients. You do not have to worry about fizzing action because you have not added your citric acid yet. Blend it well until everything is incorporated well.
Measure out your citric acid and add it to the mix. You will notice less fizzing reaction if any. Blend this well.. and then blend more.
Take your spray bottle and give the mix a few squirts. I like using high grain alcohol so that it doesn’t have the reaction that water does. However you can use any of the choices above. You want your mix to be like wet sand. Not damp sand but wet sand where when you squeeze it in your hand it sticks together.
Now is the time to mold. Take the mold of your choice.. I like using a metal measuring tsp for these but I have also used a ½ tsp too. Just depends on what you like. Now scoop your mix into the mold and press firmly with your thumb to pack it in. Release the mix and set it on a paper lined cookie sheet or paper to dry. You will not want to move these around much. Keep molding until you have it complete.
