Happy Easter Sunday!!
I have had such a lazy day today, breakfast in the garden, a bit of Create & Craft TV in the morning watching how to put together some templates to create great quilts, I would love to be able to sew but I just cant seem to get motivated to try it, cross stitch and crochet is as far as I get in that subject.
My lovely sister and her big dog Zeus popped over for the day which was great, we had lunch & dinner & ice cream, talked loads and watched The Mummy, weather wasn't great so it was a good day for sitting in front of the TV, well we thought so anyway.
I have done zero crafting today but thought I could show you how easy it is to make your own bath bombs, I had used these pictures previously on Fresh Scents Scotland's old Facebook page, but thought they may come in handy again and today is the day!!
Firstly it is good to get all the equipment you need in order;
I have here a bowl just to hold the round moulds in, they are halved.
A cupcake tray to hold the moulds once they are filled.
Two shaped moulds for the left over mix, one butterflies and one teddy bears, these are really cheap to pick up, I got mine from the pound store.
Liquid colour.
Fragrance.
Cosmetic glitter or dried flowers like lavender or rose petals.
One mixing bowl for the mix.
A teaspoon & a tablespoon for measuring colour, fragrance etc.
A spritzing bottle for the witch hazel.
Last but not least but something that I think is quite important, a pair of gloves.
After popping the gloves on, put all the dry ingredients in the bowl, bicarb soda(500g), citric acid(250g), cornflour(the 100g of cornflour is optional but I have found that it gives a lovely smooth finish to the final product), also add the glitter or dried flower petals. Mix really well breaking up any lumps, I have at times had to use a sieve for the bicarb soda just to get it smooth.
Once all the dry ingredients are mixed in well, you can then start to add the rest, I use one to two teaspoons of colour depending on how dark or light you would like the colour, if any at all, depending on what else you have put in, glitter or petals, you may not want to add colour. Then after this add no more than 10ml of fragrance. As soon as you add any wet ingredients your mix will start to fizz, you really don't want it to fizz to much so I always add and mix at the same time to prevent this. Once fragrance is added you can then start to spritz your mix with the Witch Hazel. Start by doing four spritz then mix and continue like this till you get a consistency where you can squeeze it and it holds its shape, much like wet sand.
Once you have the mix in the "wet sand" state, you can then start to pop it in the moulds, simply squeeze the mix between the two halves of the mould, do it in one clean swoop without twisting and then set aside till you have filled all your moulds.
With the mix that is left over you would just simply push the remaining mix into these silicone chill pill moulds, simply press the mix in until you cant get any more in. These moulds I would recommend be left aside for 24 hours to set firm. Once you have used up all your mix you can then take the top half of your round moulds off, this has to be done quite gently but firmly. I would then also leave these for 24 hours.
Once you get confident in making the bath bombs you can then pop extra pieces of nice things in the moulds before you put the mix in, in this case I was making up a batch of mulled wine bath bombs, I put Christmas spices in the mix and pieces of Cinnamon sticks in the mould. They were very popular.
This is the Christmas batch all made up.
To take the bath bombs out of the silicone moulds all you do is push out from the other side, after 24hours they will be set solid.
These Pumpkin bath bombs are made by using a silicone mould from Lakeland, these were put in a small trick or treat bag and given as an alternative to sweets at Halloween, I think they look fab :)
Finally these are the teddy bear "chill pills", they are great for children, they get all the fun of the fizz but without the harshness of lots of fragrance, which means there is less likelihood of skin rashes etc, sometimes the big ones hold just too many ingredients for the little ones.
So that's it, its so easy and its an instant craft, kids also love it, I do hope that if you have thought about making up bath bombs in the past but thought that it would be too hard or you would need just too much stuff that this will help change your mind. You don't have to buy special moulds you can use anything you have in the house, jelly moulds, espresso cups or even the wee plant pots that you get for staring off seeds.
If your bath bombs don't hold together when you take the top half of the mould off then the mix was too dry just put it all back in the bowl and spritz it a bit more, you may have to do this half way through moulding up as the mix can dry out quick, if your bath bombs sag then it was too wet, the likelihood is though you wont get these issues, just perfect bath bombs every time!!
Well that's me signing off, I have a driving lesson in the morning so a wee early night will do me good.
Happy crafting.
Amanda xx
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