How to make Bath Bombs

Having been making lots of bath bombs and speaking to people I realise there is a lot of myth behind them. If you want to make some for christmas family, friends or for the school fete, they are quite simple.  I work with 100gm bicarbonate of soda and 50gm citric acid.  Always half of the citiric acid to the bicarb. The citric acid is much better the finer it is.  You mix these two together and this is the secret you need to mix them very well and when you have re-mix the more you mix these two the better.  Then add colour not too much as when the witch hazel is added the colour will intensify, also add at this point the fragrance/essential oil you want.  Then mix again, you can never mix too much.  Now with witch hazel in a spritz bottle you need to just put a few squirts and mix  mix mix.  The mixing is so important as you mix the witch hazel soaks into the ingredients and slowly makes them damper.  After a good bit of mixing see if you can squeeze the mix together like damp sand and it will stick, if it does, then mold it.  If not spritz again, not too much and then mix mix mix.  This should do the trick.  If like I used to get, you get your bath bomb growing spots like warts, then it was too wet and the fizzing process is starting, so mxing is the answer.

I love Chirstmas

I love Christmas and being able to make things and sell them, it makes Christmas come early.  It is so exciting coming up with ideas and finding things to make the bath bombs and soaps more Christmassy.  Friday our bath bombs with stars in them walked out the door, so have made some more and will be making lots more before I sit down to eat my Christmas dinner.

Cars

Found a great mold for a car, and made lots of bath bombs to treat the little or big man in your life.  Come in blue, green, pink or pale white and blue, or mango and white.  Upset my daughter as I dedicated the one that had it's bumper fall off to her because each winter she manages to skid and take her bumper off.  Bless her.

Folksy

Folksy now has the pumkin soap to wash the paint off after Halloween.  100% pure Olive Oil soap with lashings of real pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon.   Chocolate Orange Soap which smells divine.  Made with 85% cocoa.  It has to be smelt, if your a  chocolate lover you will love the smell of this soap.

Christmas goodies

Have caught up what was sold last week, Christmas soaps, bath bombs going out the door as quick as I can make them.  Been set a challenge to make Christmas puds, in soap, so off to do that today.