Bath bombs - DIY bubbling pleasure
Probably, everyone at least once in their life passed by a famous cosmetics store supposedly handmade, inhaled the overwhelming aroma of fragrances and looked at the windows with bright multi-colored balls or even bought them. Bath bombs or geysers in such stores are very beautiful, but sometimes they cost as much as an airplane wing. Meanwhile, making a bath bomb with your own hands is not difficult if you follow the sequence of actions and a few rules.
Bath bombs: are there any benefits
Our answer is definitely yes. Even if your bomb only contains fragrance, soda and citric acid, you have already received psychological relaxation: fill the bath, lie down in it and, watching your geyser fizz and melt, inhale the pleasant aroma and relax.
But seriously, even a simple combination of soda and citric acid will already bring benefits. After all, their combination during a reaction with water releases carbon dioxide and forms sodium citrate - it is what creates the effervescent effect. That is, you don’t have to be afraid that you will be taking a bath with soda and citric acid. And sodium citrate gives the bombs a number of useful properties. It neutralizes the alkaline effect of detergents on the skin and hair, removes alkaline plaque from the hair, conditions, softens the skin, gives the hair shine and smoothness.
To enrich the simple recipe for a bath bomb, you can add other powdered ingredients to it:
- Sea salt (pre-grind)
- Fruit and vegetable powders
- Clays
- Rice powder
- Corn starch
- Dry milk or dry cream
- Micronized algae (kelp or spirulina).
Bath bomb - recipe and cooking technology
There are two technologies for making bath bombs: oil and oil-free.
In both cases, you will need to prepare a base, which is very simple in nature:
- 2 parts soda
- 1 part citric acid (pre-grind into powder)
- 1 part dry beneficial additive (see above).
If you want your bath bomb to not only bubble, but also act as a foaming bath bomb, replace 20% of the dry ingredients with a dry surfactant. This can be Cocosulfate or Isethionate (SCI), it is also better to grind them into powder in a coffee grinder.
Dry components must be prepared in advance. If you want colored bath bombs, take a water-based pigment or dye (remember that the dye can migrate) and mix them with soda. If you use a water-based dye, then the soda will need to be colored first and then dried.
Citric acid must be ground in a coffee grinder. This way, it will dissolve better and react with the soda, creating the desired effect of “bubbles in the bath”.
Oil-free method for making bath bombs
Mix baking soda with citric acid and stir thoroughly, then add the required amount of fragrance or essential oils, as well as a useful filler to make a bath bomb with a relaxing effect (for example, Dead Sea salt or rice powder). Then take a spray bottle with alcohol and spray it little by little on your mixture, continuing to stir the components. As a result, the mixture should resemble slightly damp sand and, if you squeeze it in your palm, it should not crumble.
The base is ready, and now quickly take the sphere molds, which can be purchased in the Beurre online store, and tamp it well into the half-molds, then pour the mixture onto each half and “glue” them together. Pack the mixture tightly into the mold so that there are no voids. After forming the bomb, it must be left in the air for at least a day to dry, then the product can be packed in shrink wrap or an airtight bag. To prevent premature reaction of the bomb (at high humidity), you can put silica gel in the package with it.
Don't be afraid of alcohol in this recipe, it will completely evaporate when the bomb dries!
Oil method of making bath bombs
In this method, you need to add another part of oil to the above recipe. To prevent such a bomb from leaving greasy marks on the bath, add 20% Polysorbate 80 or Emulpharma Ecotech emulsifier to your oil. That is, if you took 10 g of oil mixture, it should contain 2 grams of polysorbate and 8 g of oil. Or you can immediately use a series of water-soluble oils that completely dissolve in water and do not leave greasy marks.
Then the technology is the same: mix dry ingredients, add fragrance or essential oil and gradually begin to add oil, constantly kneading the mixture, and continue until the consistency begins to resemble slightly damp sand. Then we tamp the mixture into molds and dry it.
If your bath bomb starts to bubble while drying, it means you added too much liquid (even a water-based dye or fragrance can cause the baking soda and lemon to react) or your room is too humid and the bath bomb is “pulling” moisture from the air.
Try not to make bath bombs near a stove where something is boiling, remove humidifiers or even turn on a blower, this should prevent unnecessary reaction of the components. And also visit our youtube channel "Beurre Cosmetic Kitchen", where we regularly publish video recipes for making cosmetics with your own hands at home.
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