Anyone know how u make bath bombs bubbly?

8pnoodles

I'm making christmas presents this year for everyone and thought I'd try bath bombs.

Anyone know how to make a bubble bath type bath bomb? I have a recipe for the normal sort.

Also anyone got an inspiration for what to use as a mould? I really don't want to go buy anything.

Cheers!

katieowl_2

You need citric acid and Bicarbonate of soda. I thought about trying to make these as I love Lush bath bombs which are getting a bit pricey, and also the melt and pour soaps.

I found this link which tells you how to do it, but although you can probably find a mould you will need to get Bicarb and Citric acid in large enough quantities to make it cheap (I was given some Citric Acid which came from an Asian Shop, so if you have an Asian Supermarket nearby might be worth a look!)

http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/bubbly_bath_bomb_recipe.htm

Regards

Kate

Yorkielass

Don't know how they do it but Lush sell bath bombs (the normally round things) which fizz but don't produce any bubbles when they go into the water and they also sell bubble bars which you crumble some of under running water and they make lots of lovely bubbles - they are long 'sausage roll' type things cut into strips/chunks. Might be worth investigating what these bubble bars have in them - if you can find any recipes etc on the internet - I personally prefer them to bath bombs (recently moved into somewhere with a bath after 4 years without one so I treated myself to a few things from Lush )

Loretta

8pnoodles wrote:

I'm making christmas presents this year for everyone and thought I'd try bath bombs.

Anyone know how to make a bubble bath type bath bomb? I have a recipe for the normal sort.

Also anyone got an inspiration for what to use as a mould? I really don't want to go buy anything.

Cheers!

I am also going to make some of these and have been looking for something round I can use as moulds and I have not found anything. In the YOU magazine that comes with the Mail on Sunday last weekend there was an advert for things to buy as Christmas presents and they had bath fizzers, same as bath bombs and they had put them in cup cake paper cases making them look like little cakes and they looked really nice. Unless I can think of something round that is what I am going to use.

Sarahsaver

what about yoghurt pots? I made some soap and I used the large round fromage frais tubs from Aldi. You will have to do your shopping from a different perspective! You could use loo roll inner cardboard tubes lined with cling film or something. You have a perfect excuse to buy some fancy desserts or biscuits - just for the packaging of course!
there are bath bombs in a book about soapmaking, I think it is by melinda coss, I got it from amazon.

Chris25

Loretta_Tucker wrote:

. In the YOU magazine that comes with the Mail on Sunday last weekend there was an advert for things to buy as Christmas presents and they had bath fizzers, same as bath bombs and they had put them in cup cake paper cases making them look like little cakes and they looked really nice. Unless I can think of something round that is what I am going to use.

You'll might need to support the cases in a bun tin because I've found they flatten out as they dry - a bit like how a round blob of biscuit dough turns into a flat cookie:D

I found it difficult to get large quantities of citric acid and every where I tried, I was given 'the third degree'. One pharmacist told me that this can be mixed with another *substance* and drug dealers are well aware of this.

leonie_2

Have you tried your local asian supermarket for citric acid? I get 3 kg for a couple of quid.

Dont know about bubbles, but if im making a moisturising bomb, I pop a bit of shea butter in the middle of it, so when it melts, it releases the butter into the water.

squiggles

For round moulds what about those egg poacher thingies,then you could somehow just stick the two halfs together : )

meadowcat

Try this site http://www.the-sage.com/index.html

Lots of recipes for homemade goodies. Also a brilliant site for soapmaking. It has a lye calculator and this means that you can make your own soap recipes using whatever oils/fats you want.

Soapmaking is great fun - you just have to be careful with the caustic soda - and it makes great gifts.

8pnoodles

I finally found this:

https://www.justasoap.co.uk

They sell large quantities of bicarb and citric acid. AND they do the bubbly stuff I was after! SLS on the bath bomb ingredients page.

I like the idea of "having" to buy myself a couple of nice desserts as moulds. Will definitely go shopping with this in mind, and it'll be cheaper than buying real moulds. If I can't find anything lying round the house that is!

I got some patchouli essential oil very cheap from ebay and found some lavender essential oil for 99p in my superbuys (?) shop locally. Will go get some at the weekend.

Looking forward to this!

[I used to work for Lush as a temp for a couple of weeks a few years ago actually making bath bombs all day. So it'll be interesting to finally put those skills to use!]

leonie_2

Is it crucial to have bubbles? SLS products are the thing that lots of people are trying to shy away from these days. Lots of info on what a bad chemical, skin irritant, closing hair folicles etc.

I for one steer clear as much as possible from SLS based products. Heres a little info I picked at random, theres tons more out there!

http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/sls-health-implications.html