To make these bath
bombs, you will need…
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Green food coloring
First, add all of your dry ingredients (baking
soda, citric acid, corn starch, and Epsom salt) into a bowl and mix them
together. Put coconut oil in the mixture and mix together by squishing it with
your fingers. Do this until there aren’t any big clumps of coconut oil in the
mixture
Put half of the mixture into
a different bowl. Add peppermint essential oil to one bowl and eucalyptus
essential oil to the other bowl. Don’t put too much of the oil in because both of these oils
are pretty strong. If
you are using an oil that isn’t 100% pure and is more of a fragrance oil, you
can use about 10-15 drops of each oil. If your oil is pure oil, I would cut that amount in half.
In the mixture that the eucalyptus is
in, add green food coloring. I
used about 7-10 drops. Make
sure to quickly mix the food coloring into your mixture or else it will start
reacting to the moisture.
Spray about 4 sprays of
witch hazel into your mixture at a time. Spray and then mix it
up and spray more, until your mixture is the right consistency. You want it to be slightly damp, but not wet.
Damp enough that it will stick
together when you grab a handful of it, but you don’t want it to be as wet as
sand when you are building a sand castle. Only spray about 4 sprays of the witch hazel at a time, or
your mixture will start reacting to it.
First, add all of your dry
ingredients (baking soda, citric acid, corn starch, and Epsom salt) into a bowl
and mix them together. Put coconut oil in the mixture and mix
together by squishing it with your fingers. Do this until there aren’t any big clumps of coconut oil in
the mixture.
Put half of the mixture into
a different bowl. Add peppermint essential oil to one bowl and eucalyptus
essential oil to the other bowl. Don’t put too much of the oil in because both of these oils
are pretty strong. If
you are using an oil that isn’t 100% pure and is more of a fragrance oil, you
can use about 10-15 drops of each oil. If your oil is pure oil, I would cut that amount in half.
In the mixture that the eucalyptus is
in, add green food coloring. I
used about 7-10 drops. Make
sure to quickly mix the food coloring into your mixture or else it will start
reacting to the moisture.
Spray about 4 sprays of
witch hazel into your mixture at a time. Spray and then mix it
up and spray more, until your mixture is the right consistency. You want it to be slightly damp, but not wet.
Damp enough that it will stick
together when you grab a handful of it, but you don’t want it to be as wet as
sand when you are building a sand castle. Only spray about 4 sprays of the witch hazel at a time, or
your mixture will start reacting to it.
Take turns layering the
different mixtures into the bath bomb molds. This creates the fun
stripe design on them! Of
course this is totally optional, but it makes you feel a little fancier to do
it this way. You could
also fill up half of the bath bomb mold with one color and the other half with
the other color and get the same effect, just not quite as fancy.
Once your molds are full, put them in
the freezer for about an hour. Carefully
take the bombs out of the molds. You can use them right away, but if you are planning on
packaging them up to give away let them dry for a few more hours.
I think that making
these monthly themed bath bombs and packaging them all up together would make
such a fun Christmas gift! You would be able to give someone a fun bath they
can indulge in each month for a full year!
Be sure to check back
next month for another fun bath bomb recipe!
Here are the bath bomb recipes shared so far
this year…
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