How to Make Bath Bombs
Easter is coming and I have been hunting around, as I always do at this time of year for a gift to give that is both cheap and not made of chocolate. I saw this wonderful post on Me and my Shadow on how to make bath bombs which clear you head and thought that easter egg bath bombs would be perfect.
We have lots of plastic easter eggs lying around as the girls love to play with them and they make brilliant moulds. You can use any bath bomb recipe you want and just add essential oils for fragrance and colours of your choice.
Ingredients
(to make 6 bath bombs)
150g Bicarbonate of soda
75g citric acid (you can get this online or from larger chemists)
1tsp olive oil/almond oil
10 drops pink food colouring, strawberry or rose essential oil, pink glitter
10 drops yellow food colouring, lemon essential oil, sprinkle of gold glitter
10 drops purple food colouring, lavender essential oil, sprinkle of purple glitter
What to do
Mix the bicarb, citric acid and oil together – it should form into balls with your fingers.
Split into three and add in the colour and fragrance.
Put into the moulds and leave for at least 24 hours to harden. It is a bit easier to make the two halves separately. If you do this then let them harden – soften the two edges and then stick together and leave to harden again.
When they come out they are incredibly fizzy in water. You can see the twins having a play with them in the video clip attached. They smell delicious too – I really like the lavender one – great for night time baths.
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Oh we love making bath bombs and so much cheaper than buying them.
Your ones turned out so pretty. I think my DD would love a pink glittery one. Thanks for the mention x
Liz Burton recently posted..Designing a room from scratch
Thanks – and also for the inspiration! I think we will be making a lot in the future.
Rebecca recently posted..Family Meals: Super Spinach Filo Tart
I think these are SUCH a great idea!!
maggy, red ted art recently posted..Kids Craft: Easter Baskets
Thank you – and thanks to Liz for the inspiration.
Rebecca recently posted..Kids Art – Klimt – The Tree of Life
My word, this is such a super idea. I’ve been making to try something like this & I’m glad I found this (found you thru the Love All Blogs round up)
~ Ginger x
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Oh thanks for your lovely comment. It was really simple to do and the girls loved helping.
Oh thank you – that’s lovely! I hope yours turn out well. I had one which crumbled a bit and that was still fun anyway!
Rebecca recently posted..Counting with Play dough Flowers
Oh, I should try this. I bet my boys will love it! Thank:-)
Love this idea. Pinned and sharing tomorrow on my FB page.
Catherine@Momma’s Fun World recently posted..Rainbow Science for kids
These are a fantastic idea for Easter! We will definitely be trying these – I hadn’t seen a recipe for bath bombs before
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we love to make homemade items. This is awesome. I am featuring you this week as one of my fun finds from the kids co-op. jaime@FSPDT
This looks like so much fun, and what a fabulous hangout!
I’ll be featuring your post as part of my Ways To Have Happy Kids roundup from the Weekly Kids’ Co-op. Thanks for sharing. xoxo P
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Great post thanks for sharing this