Creating unique and beautiful bath bombs is a great way to help improve creativity and body care wellness - plus doing it yourself gives you control over the exact ingredients used to create each one. Whether you're a customer looking for something special for yourself or a business interested in crafting unique products for sale, our how to make bath bombs guide is the first step to get you going. From start to finish our easy-to-follow instructions will have you creating your own custom bath bombs in no time! What are the key ingredients in a bath bomb? Bath bombs are also used for aromatherapy and to create a spa-like experience, far more than a way to get clean, they are the perfect way to enjoy some me time. This along with the properties from the variety of ingredients used, help cleanse your body, soothe your skin and invigorate your mind. Do bath bombs make a mess? Citral can be a colourless or pale, yellow liquid with a strong, fresh odour of lemon peel. Citral is widely found in essential oils such as bergamot, cardamom, geranium, ginger, grapefruit, lemon, lemongrass, lime, neroli, sweet orange, petitgrain, rose and red thyme. It is found as a constituent of essential oils in some of our products. Sometimes it is added in its synthetic form to give a fresh, lemon odour to perfumes or help to develop rose note in soap perfumery.

Creating DIY bath bombs is not only enjoyable but also incredibly useful. Whether you are an experienced crafter or just starting out with the art of making beauty products, this blog post will walk you through each step so that you can craft perfect bath bombs from the comfort of your own home – even if it’s your first time attempting any kind of cosmetics or toiletries project. From building your recipe and sourcing your ingredients, to starring at your constructed bath bomb waiting for it to dry. Let's go through each step, including our DIY bath bomb recipe. Each bath bomb is unique, they are a great way to nourish your skin, by holding ingredients that release valuable properties. A warm bath infused with salts, lavender, carrier oils and more does wonders for your skin. Helping to clean out your pores, remove dead skin cells and freshen up your complexity. Limonene occurs naturally in essential oils, such as lime, lemongrass, neroli, grapefruit, tangerine, oakmoss, olibanum, peppermint, rose, sage and fennel. It can also be found in lemon rind. Do you want to find out what all of the hype is around bath bombs and why people everywhere are so excited about them? Bath bombs are an amazing combination of unique ingredients that creates an incredible, fizzy and foaming effect when they are dropped into water. Not only that, they release delightful aromas that fill your tub with amazing fragrance and vibrant colors that make every bath an adventure!Biodegradable Purple Fine Glitter – Rayon, Glycerin, Aqua, Urea, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, CI 77000, CI 74160, CI 15850 Adding a small amount of moisture, whether this is water, witch hazel or comes from your ingredients, you want enough that softens your mixture to bind your ingredients. It turns your powdered mixture into a snowball like consistency, allowing your ingredients to blend and hold together. Then as they dry and harden they build strength and hold together perfectly. What do bath bombs do for you? Linalool is used in floral fragrances. It occurs naturally in many essential oils. Linalool is a colourless liquid with a soft, sweet odour. It occurs naturally in many essential oils, such as tangerine, spearmint, rose, cypress, lemon, cinnamon and ylang ylang. It has a soft, sweet scent.

Linalool is used in floral fragrances. It occurs naturally in many essential oils. Linalool is a colourless liquid with a soft, sweet odour. It occurs naturally in many essential oils, such as tangerine, spearmint, rose, cypress, lemon, cinnamon and ylang ylang. It has a soft, sweet scent. Ho wood oil in used in some fragrances, which is linalool in its natural form, for the woody, sweet note it gives. Even when ingredients are naturally occurring fragrance constituents they are included in quantitative ingredients lists, this enables people to decide which product is right for them. Biodegradable Silver Fine Glitter – Rayon, Glycerin, Aqua, Urea, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, CI 77000 Make sure you make one-half of your mould slightly higher than the other so when you combine them they slot together easier. Push your two halves together and wipe away any excess. Sodium Laureth Sulfate Used primarily as a detergent cleansing agent. Can be derived from coconut. It’s considered gentle and effective as typically used in cosmetics products (typically facial or body cleansers and shampoos). Despite the name similarity, sodium laureth sulfate is NOT the same as sodium lauryl sulfate. The former is a milder cleansing agent due to a higher amount and different chemical structure of the fatty alcohols required to manufacture this cleansing agent. The safety of sodium laureth sulfate has been reviewed by numerous industry experts and deemed safe as used. Geraniol is a colourless liquid; it has a sweet, rose-like odour, with a hint of citrus Geraniol occurs naturally in essential oils, such as geranium, rose and lemon, and sometimes we add it to formulas in a synthetic form to fragrance with a floral touch.Kaolin Clay - Has unique skin benefits and properties and is widely used to help to harden your bath bombs. Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone is a safe synthetic compound used a lot in cosmetic to fragrance by reproducing the smell of violets, with a sweet and powdery touch. Ionones were discovered by Tiemann in 1893, changing the face of perfumery by giving an alternative to very rare, unaffordable or volatile flower oils. They are now used in different forms, including Alpha-Isomethyl, in almost every fragrance. Propylene glycol is a clear, syrupy liquid, with no color, odour or taste. It is a synthetic liquid, completely soluble in water, which helps the skin to absorbs moisture. It also helps the hair to be soft and easy to brush. Because propylene glycol is usually derived from petrochemicals it was removed from most things and replaced by sorbitol and in 2017, a rapeseed oil-based source was found and the compound has been reintroduced into cosmetic products.

Sea Salts - Are known to cleanse, hydrate and heal your skin, as well as add texture to your bath bombs. Cornstarch - Works as a stabiliser, helping to slow down the fizz and make your bath bombs last longer.

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Add the bicarbonate of soda and the citric acid into the mixing bowl. Mix thoroughly until you have a consistent texture. Benzyl Salicylate is a liquid with a very light sweet, floral and balsamic aroma.Benzyl salicylate is a naturally occurring constituent of essential oils, including cananga and ylang ylang oils.Sometimes we add it in a safe synthetic version to fragrance products and for its fixative effect on floral scents, helping perfumes to last longer. Making bath bombs can be just as fun as using them! Understanding the process to create your very own bath bombs, where you can tailor the colours, the scent and the properties to suit your needs is all part of the fun. Before you start building your bath bombs you need to make sure the mixture has a snowball like consistency. From a distance spray your mixture with water and mix until you start to feel the consistency change. Citronellol It is a constituent of essential oils. These include rose, geranium, neroli, chamomile, tagetes, lemongrass, basil and lavender. Citronellol features broadly across our product ranges, occurring naturally in essential oils, meaning its sweet fragrance is found in many of our products.

For our recipe will be using Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate Powder (SLSA) which adds amazing foaming properties to your bath bombs and is perfect when you want to add some extra life and character to your bath time. Next, add in your SLSA and mix well ensuring you get rid of any lumps. SLSA is a very fine powder so be careful when adding and mixing. Blue – Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, CI 77891, Titanium Dioxide, Tin Oxide, CI 77007, Ultramarine Blue Keep adding small sprays of water until your mixture starts to hold together on its own. Repeat with your white mixture.Biodegradable Green Fine Glitter – Rayon, Glycerin, Aqua, Urea, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, CI 77000, CI 19140, CI 42090 Next using a flat edge tool gently tap on the mould which will help loosen the bath bomb as you can see then repeat on the other side. Cream of Tartar - Helps to bind and hold your bath bombs together and harden them, with a smoother, silky finish.