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Bath Fizzies – Gift Series – Day Two. Let’s finish up those bath fizzies so you can be on our way to finishing the delightful ensemble above. Click here for Day One of this tutorial. By the way, the set of items pictured only cost $6.02 in ingredients! Luxurious and cheap. Step 5 Place a little of the white mixture in the mold just where the star designs are. Be as neat or as messy as you like – they always manage to look great in the end. I’m wearing gloves to protect my nail polish color. Making bath fizzies can dull fingernail polish color and shine. Step 6 Fill the mold with the Cappuccino brown mixture and press it into the molds really well. Step 7 Gently tap out the bombs onto a surface where they won’t be disturbed while they dry. Step 8 Wrap your fizzies and shower your friends and family with fizzy bathtime fun!

Bath Bomb Surprise. Difficulty:intermediateTime:30 minutesYields:10 to 16 In honor of a fabulous employee! Luke (pourer extraordinaire) created this project and we’re so lucky that he’s sharing it with all of us. Read his adorable tutorial below on how to make a Bath Bomb Surprise. There’s a short video at the bottom so you can watch to see the fizzy duck in action. Directions (from Luke) First, I used a large plastic bowl to mix the citric acid and baking soda together.

Third, I added .75 ounces of herbal essence fragrance oil, distributing evenly using the dropper. Fourth, I began to mix slowly while squirting witch hazel into the batch. Fifth, Using the hockey puck mold, I took a handful of the batch and squished it to the bottom of the mold, packing it down. Sixth, I checked on them an hour later. Voila! My girlfriend Erika did another small batch after me. There you have it! Soap Queen TV: Bath Fizzy Fun! Bath Bombs + Salt = Love. My basic bath bomb recipe was seeming a little “vanilla” lately (aka: in need of a change). So to spice things up and continue with the bath bomb theme of the week, I mixed it up by adding Fine Brazilian Sea Salt and some Himalayan Pink Salt for garnish. The salts combined with the new Orange Grove Fragrance Oil is just what I needed to make extraordinary double duty bath bombs! Ingredients ½ Cup Citric Acid 1 Cup Baking Soda ¼ Cup Fine Brazilian Sea Salt 3-6 ml Orange Grove Fragrance Oil 4-6 Sprays Witch Hazel Coarse Pink Salt for Garnish Radiant Heart Mold and Mod Flower Mold Get all of the ingredients you need in the click of a button.

Prep: Add your pink salt to the cavities of your mold (which ever mold you choose) so it’s ready to go! ONE: Combine the citric acid, baking soda and sea salt in a mixing bowl and mix, mix, mix with your hands getting rid of all of the clumps. TWO: Add 3 ml of Orange Grove Fragrance Oil (use 6 ml if you want them scented stronger). Solid Bath Sugar Cubes Tutorial. 4th of July bath sugar cubes – single use body scrubs These easy to make, festive scrubs combine cleansing glycerin soap with exfoliating sugar to make perfect single use solid sugar scrubs!

Erin was generous enough to share it with SoapQueen.com readers. It can be done in all sorts of colors, not just patriotic seasonal ones. This recipe makes approximately 24 ounce-ounce single use sugar scrubs. What you’ll need: 18 oz. by weight white sugar 2-cup glass measuring cup or melting soap Spoons Cutting surface Wide mouth jars or plastic food containers for storage These ingredients will be split into three batches – one each of red, white and blue!

Step one: Melt 2 oz. of clear soap in the microwave using your 2-cup glass measuring cup. Step two: Mix 2 oz. of your oil with the melted soap and stir until blended. Step three: Add color, pinkberry sherbet lab color to your liking and mix thoroughly. Step four: Add 20 drops of fragrance oil and mix thoroughly. DIY Cappuccino Bath Bomb ~ Day 4 of Pamper yourself DIY Style week | The Christmas Fairy. How to Make Bath Bombs (Instructable that was moved) | Soapy Hollow. As I’ve noted before, Instructables has changed their business model, reducing access to content to non-paid visitors. Since all of my work was published under a Creative Commons non-commercial license, I’ve removed it from Instructables and am republishing it here, so the content stays free. Keeping in mind folks with data stream limits, I’ve used smaller images, but you can click through them to larger versions if you wish, or you may see the entire project folder here for super large images.

How to make bath bombs: Everybody loves bath bombs. For this recipe, I am using ingredients that are pretty common, or easy to find in most areas. So, let’s start with a basic recipe in two parts. Dry ingredients: (By Weight, as measured on a scale.) Baking Soda – 8 ouncesCitric Acid – 4 ouncesCorn Starch – 4 ouncesSalts – 4 ounces ( in these pictures, I used Dead Sea Salts, but mineral salts work too, and are easier to find and significantly less expensive.) Wet Ingredients: Back to basics: Bath bombs. Bath bombs seem like a really simple concept - a little citric acid, a little baking soda, some fragrance oil, and you have a wonderful acid-base reaction in the tub that brings happiness to the bather.

But they can cause such headaches to even the most seasoned bath and body creator! As a point of interest, this is where my bath and body creation journey began. I found a recipe for bath bombs on the 'net. I made them and they worked. Yay! This recipe is rated E for everyone, but is especially fantastic for beginners, those who don't wish to use preservatives, or those who don't have a scale. RECIPE FOR BATH BOMBS BY WEIGHT 120 grams baking soda 60 grams citric acid 13 grams oil of choice 4 grams fragrance oil RECIPE FOR BATH BOMBS BY VOLUME 1/2 cup baking soda 1/4 cup citric acid 1 tsp oil of choice up to 2.5 ml fragrance oil You'll notice I have a 2:1 ratio of baking soda to citric acid. I like to use silicone ice cube trays as my moulds as they make the bath bombs easier to remove.