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Making Bath Fizzies - The Basics
by Shelley Fluegge

Description: How to make your own "bath bombs".

Commonly called bath bombs or bath fizzies these fun bath time additions are pretty easy to make. Store bought fizzies often contain chemicals like Sodium Laureth Sulfate which is a foaming agent. I can be really harsh on skin though, so make your own fizzies easily and avoid unnecessary ingredients like that. First you'll need to gather your basic ingredients- distilled water, a light oil (like sunflower, almond or grape seed, but mineral oil can be used as well)skin safe fragrance oil of your choice, Epsom salts, baking soda, corn starch and citric acid. Citric acid can be found online easily, there are two grades and often suppliers aren't clear on which grade they carry. Ive seen the finer grade labelled as 'food grade', 'grade A' and 'Super Fine' this grade is preferred, its easier to make bath bombs with but the coarser grade will be just fine as well. The recipe and directions are pretty simple:

Dry Ingredients:
2 parts baking soda
1 part citric acid
1 part corn starch
1/2 part Epsom Salt

Wet Ingredients:
2 1/2 T. oil
3/4 T. water
2-4 tsp. fragrance

First sieve the dry ingredients and mix them well. Then combine the wet ingredients together in a bottle or jar and shake well. Slowly drizzle the wet into the dry and mix quickly and thoroughly until it will hold its shape like wet sand does if you squeeze it in your hand. This is the trickiest part of making bath fizzies, after a few tries you will be able to identify exactly how much liquid you need to use. Once you have achieved the wet sand consistency its time to mold your bombs. The easiest way to do this is in a muffin pan, just pack the mixture into the muffin pan, wait a few moments and turn them out very carefully. If they all crumble you either need to pack them harder or use more liquid. You can use these right away but they are best after they have dried completely.

Shelley Fluegge is the owner of Bella Sapone, a soap, bath and body business.

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