Make Bath Bombs With a Soap Kitchen Kit

Bath bombs are great for making a bath interesting and fun. Here is an easy way to make handmade bath bombs using a kit from The Soap Kitchen.

Steps

  1. Purchase a 'Make Your Own Bath Bombs' kit from The Soap Kitchen.
  2. Measure out the citric acid and bicarbonate of soda in your bowl and stir so there are no lumps.
  3. Add your fragrance oil (between 5ml and 10ml depending on how strong you want the bath bombs to smell) to your glass jar. Add a little colour pigment, again, depending on how strong you want the colour to be. 2g is a good amount.
  4. Put the lid on the jar and shake the fragrance and colour pigment together.
  5. Add your botanicals (dried calendula petals are a great option) to the mixing bowl containing bicarbonate of soda.
  6. Add the mixture of pigment and fragrance.
  7. Stir and blend until the colour has spread evenly through the mixture.
  8. Now you have to work fairly quickly. Add a few sprays of water at a time to the mixture. Keep stirring and adding water. Stop when the mixture begins to clump a little. To test if the mixture is ready for the next step, squeeze a small amount in your hands. If the mixture holds to its shape, it is ready.
  9. It’s time to use your moulds. Most kits contain 6 moulds (half spheres). Fill 2, ensuring that you don’t pack the mixture down too hard but is definitely ‘pressed’ into the mould. Ensure that the moulds are over-filled – you need the mixture to stand just proud of the surface.
  10. Then press the two halves together for a few moments. You need to be quite firm!
  11. Remove the top half of the mould.
  12. Repeat this process until you have 5 bath bombs. You’ll need to leave the finished bath bombs sitting in one half of the mould for 15 to 30 minutes so they dry out.
  13. Once the bath bombs have dried out, carefully press them out of their half moulds, gently brush away the excess mixture at the join, and there you have it! Handmade bath bombs.

Tips

  • If you have excess mixture left after using the moulds, try pressing it into ice cube trays.
  • If you have any other mixture and you already filled up all your cube trays, then use some silicone molds.

Things You'll Need

  • Kit
  • Mixing bowl.
  • Moulds (included in the pack – half sphere moulds were used in this tutorial).
  • Kitchen scales.
  • Small spray bottle (a mini travel spray bottle is ok) filled with water.
  • Clean, empty jar with a lid (like a jam jar).
  • To make 5 Bath Bombs:
    • 300g bicarbonate of soda.
    • 100g granulated citric acid.
    • Fragrance or essential oils (10ml of Lemon Fizz fragrance was used in this tutorial but you could probably get away with using half of this).
    • Colour and/or botanicals (For this tutorial: 2g of chromium oxide green, hydrated pigment and small handful of calendula flower petals).

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