And since it went fairly well, there will be a Part #2 lol.
I was really concerned when I started these. I have read many horror stories about them disintegrating, not sticking together, sticking to everything they aren’t supposed to and more! I will admit, I did have the sticking to everything problem… well, at least sticking to the molds!
This is everything I assembled to make these:
I ordered most of the ingredients online. The only thing I forgot to get was some kind of “oil.” After getting it all out to make I thought I was going to have to wait for another day. But, low and behold, I found some baby oil. It’s oil, so why not?
The first thing to do is to mix up your dry ingredients. I mixed up 1 Cup of baking soda, 1/2 Cup of citric acid, 1/2 cup kosher salt (I didn’t have any sea salt or Epsom 😳) and 1/2 Cup of corn starch.
To this I added my crushed rose petals. ( I’m thinking they might be a bit of a pain when it comes time to drain the tub…oops).
Now it was time to add some oil, fragrance oil, colouring and water. Because I was using gel colouring, I diluted it into warm water so it would colour evenly. I used a ratio of about 6 drops of gel to 2 Tbsp of water, and I used approximately 8 drops of fragrance oil.
Even though I knew I was adding the water to baking soda, I still didn’t think it would fizz at that point lol, but it did. Only a little.
I started out with 2 Tbsp of the baby oil. That slowly turned into about a 1/4 cup of it to make the mixture moist enough to “clump.”
Then came the mold issue. I had no problem jamming the mixture into the mold and forcing them together, the problem came with getting it out of the mold. There was no way I had the patience to wait however long in between for each one to dry enough to pop them out. I had to improvise!
I started off thinking I would line the mold with plastic wrap and just keep popping them out and drop it on the plate. But, then I decided I would use separate plastic wrap for each one! Less mess when the little bits that don’t stick fall off! 💡
Then I ever so patiently let them sit undisturbed overnight. (Not really. I gave them a little poke every time I walked by to see if they were actually setting or crumbling)
Believe it or not, it worked! I had read about how many batches of ingredients some people went through before they finally got the right consistency. Somehow I nailed it first try! I’m sure I’ll pay for that next time around 😕.
Here they are. Finished, just not wrapped up yet. I will update pictures once they are wrapped!
I made small ones at christmas time using some silicone molds I had . These look great glad that they came out.
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Thank you, I am glad too. All I could envision was a big pile of purple “ingredients” in a bag after they disintegrated lol!
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They came out really pretty! 🌺
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Thank you so much!
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Lining the bath bombs with plastic wrap is a great idea. I’m finding it very difficult to remove them from the molds too
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It was all I could think of at the time. Well, I first thought of cooking spray but I am pretty sure we don’t want something like that in the bath! This worked well and it was a whole lot tidier as well. I don’t know how you are expected to get them out of the molds, other than to have a whole pile of them and let the bombs dry right in them?
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