How to: make BATH BOMBS

Everybody loves BATH BOMBS!!! They are so colorful and funny to make a simple bath become an amazing experience of relax,fun and aromatherapy!
You can find them in the stores in many colors,scents shapes...but what about creating them at home,with your favourite scents and colors??? Maybe adding some glitters or dryed flowers??

(I'm sure you're running to get the apron! )

Now I'll teach you a simple way to do them,the same recipe that I do for mines. =) Don't worry,it's easy and you don't need strange or dangerous ingredients

You'll need:

- a large bowl for the dry ingredients

- a small bowl for the wet ingredients

- a spray bottle for the water

- spheric moulds (for the classic round bath bombs,but you can use every other kind of mould)

Ingredients:

Baking Soda - 8 ounces
Citric Acid - 4 ounces
Corn Starch - 4 ounces

Water (put it in the spray bottle)

Essential or Fragrance Oil
Oil (olive oil or sweet almond oil will work - I use sweet almond)

Food coloring - 1 or 2 drops.

Instructions:

Mix in the large bowl all the dry ingredients. Mix very well.

Mix in the small bowl all the wet ingredients (except the water that must be poured into the spray bottle).

Now mix carefully but as fast as you can the wet ingredients into the dry ingredient's bowl. If you see that the powder starts fizzing, mix fast and this will stop the reaction.

Now you should have a soft colored and scented powder, not too dry and not too wet.

Spray water 3 or 4 times and mix mix mix very fast to avoid it fizzing.

Now you should have reached this consistence

Press the mixture in the moulds; if you're using the spheric moulds (that can be found as christmas decorations in many stores) press well the mixture in each half mould and then press well the 2 half moulds together.

If you want to add something on the top of the bomb (glitters,dry flowers,herbs,sprinkles..) put it in the bottom of the half mould before filling it with the mixture.


You don't need to leave them in the mold for very long, and in fact can tap them out as soon as you fill them.
Leave them drying for some hours.

Jump in the tub and Enjoy!!!

Here are some exemples and inspirations for your bombs:

Tutorial by Bella, pics are taken from google (if anyone has problems please convo me and I'll delete them. Thanks for the collaboration. <3 )

Let's talk about melt & pour Soap Base

Good morning! How did you pass Xmas day? Hope everything gone right.

I woke up this morning thinking about what to talk about in my "today" post on the blog; I decided to talk about melt & pour soap base.

When I decided to start with soap-making, I tought that melt and pour was the right technique for me.

This because I have a small lab (inside my house where I live with parents,sister and my kitty); I read a lot about soap making with lye and I definitely got scared of hot/cold soap making process. 

Once I decided for Melt & Pour, obviously I had to find a good-natural-clear base with reasonable costs (and shipping costs).

It wasn't easy! There are only a few web sites selling this kind of base in bulk quantities,and many are soooo far away that shipping costs for me were going to be higher than soap cost!

I want to help people who's starting soap-making , so I'm going to list here the web sites I've found! 

- Gracefruit.com  This is a very good site for soap makers,expecially for european ones: in fact it's in the UK and shipping costs are definitely reasonable. It sells white soap base and clear soap base in bulk quantities. It sells also scents,oils,additives and everything you may need.

- PudledukSoapCo.etsy.com They make a very good white soap base all natural and super fatted with Shea butter. Their base is actually a made to order cold processed soap so it is just like you mixed the lye and fats yourself. The nice fact is that they can make custom orders with your favourite quantity! 

- Wholesale Supplies Plus 15 kinds of soap bases, many are already enriched with milks and butters. They are in Ohio so shipping costs are reasonable for U.s.

- BrambleBerry.com Thank's Kelle for talking me about this beautiful site! They sell tons of supplies and tested bases! Many Etsy soap sellers use their bases.

If I were you I wouldn't buy base from E-bay: my advice is to buy always from web sites which certificate that their soap is good for skin and that the base have been clinically tested. 

If I'll found other interesting sites selling bases I'll update this post!