How To Make Your Own Bath Bombs

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Add some fizzle and sizzle to bath time with a homemade bath bomb.

To complete this How-To you will need:

1 c. baking soda
1/2 c. cornstarch
1/2 c. citric acid
2 1/2 tbsp. sweet almond oil
1/8 c. distilled water
6 drops of the essential oil of your choice
A spray bottle filled with witch hazel
Molds, muffin tins, or ice-cube trays
Tissue paper
1/8 c. sodium lauryl sulfoacetate
Dried flower petals
Zest of a citrus fruit
Food coloring
Colored plastic wrap
Ribbon

Step 1: Mix the ingredients

Mix together the baking soda and the cornstarch in one bowl, and the citric acid, almond oil, and distilled water in another. Find citric acid, also known as sour salt, in natural-food stores, craft shops, and some supermarkets.

Tip: If you want your bath bombs to foam, add 1/8 cup of sodium lauryl sulfoacetate to the dry mixture once you've combined the other dry ingredients. Order it on the internet.

Step 2: Prepare the molds

Lightly grease the molds with sweet almond oil. If you don't have multipurpose craft molds, you can use muffin tins, ice-cube trays, plastic Easter eggs that snap apart, or even Christmas ornament packages instead.

Step 3: Combine wet and dry

Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, mixing them them with your hands. If the mixture is too dry to stick together, mist it with a little witch hazel, which you can find at drug stores.

Tip: Dried flower petals, the zest of lemons or other citrus fruits, or food coloring can be added to the mix.

Step 4: Press into molds

Press the mixture into molds, let them sit for a few hours, remove, and let them dry for a week.

Step 5: Wrap it up

If you're giving the bath bombs as gifts, cover them with colored plastic wrap and tie with ribbon. Otherwise, cover them with tissue paper and store in a cool, dry place.

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[Lostrissy]

Step 1-get fertilizer,a bag,cotton,diesel fuel and a lighter

Step 2-fill up the bathtub with fuel,fill up the bag with fertilizer and add cotton in it

Step 3-get in the bathtub with your bag and light it on fire

Step 4-enjoy!

[DaikoZero]

Step 1: Take a big fart in the bath tub

step 2: repeat

[MegaNickibitch]

step one get bomb then light and run like hell

[EeveelutionStorm]

@Planatification Not really. It's got citris too like tomato's, oranges, lemons limes ect. I'm partially allergic to it and I have to be careful with stuff like it.

[tatertasers]

the fact at the end LOL

[MonsterHighMovies101]

women should rather have a bubble bath than sex XD.

[GlitterballJewellery]

we make bath bombs check us out (:

[zombieeegore]

I'll just go but some from lush instead. Saves time!

[sterose123]

ewww

[gothicchik52]

@Planatification Sweet, I learned something today.

[Planatification]

@gothicchik52 Actually, pineapple is not citric acid. Citric acid only comes from citrous fruits like oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruits... as far as I know.

[KugelSchwindler]

Step 1: Eat some taco bell

Step 2: Draw a bath

step 3: Wait, I misunderstood what they meant by bath bomb...