While researching soap making on Soapqueen.com I came across some bath bombs that were very intriguing and knew I had to try. So over Christmas break I gathered the kiddos together for a project day and we had a blast creating our own version, then renamed them bath fizzies...and I thought lotion bars were fun to make! These babies are not only fun to customize they are super fun when you throw them in the bath and they start fizzing along with changing the color of the bath water. Little Woman is an everything pink kind of gal so she loved turning her bath water pink with the beet root powder fizzy.
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Not only are bath fizzies fun to make and fun to use in the bathtub, they are great for your skin and body! Baking soda softens and deodorizes skin, Redmond Clay pulls toxins from both your skin and your body, Epsom salts puts minerals back into your body while the oil nourishes and moisturizes. Depending on what essential oils you use these can be customized to be medicinal, relaxing, stimulating, soothing, healing, etc. Even the natural colorants you use will turn your bath into an herbal tea soak.
The Basic Recipe
1 cup citric acid
2 cups baking soda
4 tablespoons Redmond Clay
1/4 cup Epsom Salt
2 tablespoons oil or butter (see Natural Skin Care Ingredients for a list) optional
30 drops essential oil per cup of bath fizzy mix - optional
colorants - optional (beet powder, spirulina powder, tumeric, spices)
Witch Hazel in a squirt bottle
Molds
2 cups baking soda
4 tablespoons Redmond Clay
1/4 cup Epsom Salt
2 tablespoons oil or butter (see Natural Skin Care Ingredients for a list) optional
30 drops essential oil per cup of bath fizzy mix - optional
colorants - optional (beet powder, spirulina powder, tumeric, spices)
Witch Hazel in a squirt bottle
Molds
Mix together the citric acid, baking soda and clay. Sift out the clumps so it is nice and smooth, then add the epsom salts and mix together well.
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If using a butter, melt in a pan over very low heat. For an oil just pour over the powder mix and stir with hands until well combined, I used Calendula infused oil. I like to separate my fizzy mix into three separate bowls so I can make different colors and essential oil blends. These equal out to about a cup each.
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If adding a colorant, use about 2 teaspoons of powder per cup. Feel free to add more or less depending on the color you want. I find it easiest to just use my hands to mix everything up. Now add your essential oil, 30 drops or so per cup, depending on how strong you want them scented. For Little Woman's pink batch I used beet root powder and lavender essential oil.
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Spray with witch hazel and mix until the moisture is just enough to allow the mix to clump when squeezed in a fist. Press into mold of choice firmly. Turn over to pop out onto a cutting board and let them sit overnight in a dry place to harden. Store in an airtight container until ready to use. Throw one or two into your bath water and let the fun begin!
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Yes, we spent the month of December experimenting with different versions of bath fizzies - we like them - alot! So here are some ideas to get you going.
Relieve It!
The idea here was to take a green and layer it with a yellow so when we threw it in the tub it would turn blue. We used spirulina powder for the green but as you can see it turned grey. For yellow we used turmeric powder and a pain/muscle essential oil blend for sore muscles. We used a regular ice cube tray and layered turmeric first, pressed hard and firm, then the spirulina mix, then another turmeric. They turned out pretty cool looking and when they were tossed in the tub they didn't turn blue like we had anticipated but a pretty green.
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*Turmeric is a very rich colorant and took me a couple of bath tub cleanings to get the yellow tint completely out. This is fine for us but just wanted to give you a heads up if you choose to use this colorant.
Sunshine
We wanted to make an orange scented version so in came the carrot powder again. As you can see the fizzies didn't turn orange, instead they were yellow with orange specks - so cool! Big Woman wanted to call these Sunshine instead of Orange because they ended up yellow and orange, like the sun. We used a turtle and frog soap mold but they were a bit tricky to get pressed in the mold firmly due to the little parts poking out. Still they were cute and the kids loved them.
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Warming Cinnamon
This version was based off my Warming Cinnamon Bath Salts and I found I like to use these better than the salts. I used about 2 teaspoons of cinnamon powder, 1 teaspoon of ginger powder and my *immune booster blend (cinnamon, clove, rosemary, lemon, eucalyptus), I only used 15-20 drops of the essential oil because cinnamon is a very strong essential oil and can irritate the skin if too much is used. This seemed like a perfect amount and they smell soooo good.
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Can't wait to see what you can come up with!
Ingredients for this project can all be purchased from Mountain Rose Herbs.
