Many bath bomb at home DIY recipes are available on the Internet, including some less-than-inspiring DIY flops and disasters such as stubborn egg whites on bathroom tiles or permanently dyed pink necks. Remember the man who drank his chicken ramen bath bomb?
The Homemade bath bombs memes of the world frequently neglect to disclose that it is quite feasible to make your LUSH-worthy product at home with a few simple kitchen components. Can have a Rainbow Brite-approved bathtub while also smelling like a flower garden or a lavender cocktail.
I’m going to teach you how to make your own beauty store-inspired galaxy bath bombs from scratch using our go-to baking ingredients, baking soda, food colouring, and, of course, this fantastic video lesson from YouTube beauty-guru RCLBeauty101. While YouTuber Rachel chose bolder colours for her bath bomb at home, I opted to go with pastels. However, feel free to modify the combination to your liking.
Aside from saving you a few dollars, DIY is also a lot of fun if you have friends around. It’ll be a refreshing break from binge-watching your favorite Netflix show. Don’t worry, and you can have a glass of wine while doing it. Of course, the same is true when you’re doing your DIY. It’s that simple.
You Will Require
- To build your bath bomb at home, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- Soda for Baking
- A Mold, Epsom Salt, Lemon Juice, Water Spray, and a Food Coloring Bottle
- Spoon Fragrance into a mixing bowl (Optional)
- Pigment For Glitter Or Eyeshadow (Optional)
- Fill a bowl halfway with baking soda.
Begin by putting baking soda (also known as bicarbonate of soda in Europe) in a bowl. A normal cup (8 ounces) is a nice place to start. The nicest part about this recipe is that you can make it almost entirely by eye, with no need for weighing instruments.
Because we’ll be producing the bath bomb at home colours in different quantities, you can always create more as you go if you run out of the mixture.
Include Epsom Salts
After you’ve added the baking soda to the mixing bowl, add the Epsom salt. I performed this again without measuring, opting for a semi-equal quantity of both.
Many internet how-tos claim that ordinary salt works just as well. However, the purpose of the Epsom salt is to finally soothe those aching muscles and provide the bath bomb at home with its calming characteristics.
Combine Them Both
Mix the two dry ingredients as well as you can. If you have a whisk, you should get a smoother texture-out of the mixture. If you don’t have one, a spoon will suffice.
Fill A Glass with Water and Add A Squeeze of Lemon Juice
Fill a spray bottle halfway with lemon juice and water. Many bath bomb recipes call for citric acid powder, but this liquid combination is a considerably cheaper option. When making the spray, make sure the water and lemon components are both equal. After you’ve placed them in a spray bottle, shake them vigorously to combine them.
Incorporate Lemon Water into The Mixture
Next, spritz the lemon and water combination into the baking soda mixture. You must use one spray at a time. If you add too much liquid, the bath bomb at home will not fizz when it’s time to take a bath.
Spray the solution into the bowl with care and mix it in before adding another spray, and so on. The goal is to get a wet sand texture in which the mixture is sticky enough to be shaped in the palm of your hand. If it starts to look like slush, you’ve probably added too much liquid. To counteract this, add extra baking soda and Epsom salt to the mix.
Divide the Ingredients into Separate Bowls
If the solution starts to resemble wet sand, split it into smaller basins. These will be the various hues of the bath bomb at home.
I’ve picked three, but you may make as many or as few as you desire. If you found your measures were slightly wrong at the start, this is a good opportunity to make another batch of the dry ingredients.
Can Add Food Colouring
It’s time to jazz up the bath bomb. Slowly and gently dribble some food colouring into each of the bowls. You don’t want to add too much, just like with the lemon juice. Take everything one drop at a time.
Combine Everything
I’m mixing in two drops here before adding another two. Because I used gel food colouring, my dye is a little thicker than I intended, and it didn’t blend in as well as it would have if it had been in liquid form. If this is the case, feel free to knead the colour into the mixture gradually. Just make sure you have clean hands first!
It is also a fantastic technique to test the recipe’s texture before making the bath bomb.
Repeat for The Remaining Portions
After colouring one portion of the mixture pink, I dyed the other two with blue, yellow, and purple food colouring.
Can add Glitter
During the food colouring process, you can be as creative as you like. Adding Glitter or sparkles to the bath bomb is necessary for those who want to give it a luxurious touch. Eyeshadow pigment can also be used to produce a scattered, galaxy-like look. But be warned: they will be a huge pain to clean off both your skin and your bathtub.
Don’t forget to add any scented oil or fragrance. Patchouli, lavender, and rose oils are usually my go-to oils.
Take A Bath and Unwind!
After you’ve completed filling the mould with the mixture, you can either leave it out to dry for the remainder of the day or place it in the freezer. I put the moulds in the freezer for three hours for this instruction. I then pulled them out and set the bath bombs aside to cool until they were room temperature. You must ensure that they are absolutely dry before using because otherwise, they will not fizz and spread through the water.
