Bath bombs third round!

I think I have now the perfect recipe! (Okay, to be honest, i have still some ideas to test... and I will ^^) I am using no extra oil anymore (like coco) but only the one being in the milk powder (and this has over 20%!) and in the scent (I am using mostly weleda oils because of the mixture of scent and nourishing stuff :)). Instead I added corn starch to the milkpowder and salt (and the two basics citric acid and sodium bicarbonate)... the are getting really hard now after drying! On the downside: You have to care more about the balance of moisture in the mix... just a little bit too much and you will get cracks in the bomb...

I can only show you two examples of the third round of bath bombs... the other are already out of the house being a present :)

Bath bombs...

Just wrapped... ^^

New bombs....! Splash!

This time two little things were changed. At first we (a friend wanted to build some bombs too) used a different sort of citric acid. For the first try I had some grained (chinese cooking stuff) as well as powdered citric acid (baking, making preserves, etc), now we just found the powdered variation (really, we went into FOUR supermarkets... one of them even a chinese one! grrrr....).

The second change was not a change in the ingredients but the process... we stirred the milk powder in the melted coconut oil before mixing everything together. The milk powder is not only for a luxury feeling... ( a milk bath! ^^) but also to emulsify the oil in the bath. The oil itself makes the skin very smooth and soft after bathing, a strange but great feeling (I am not used to oil or milk baths... to say so... not now ;) ).

We don't know if the changes were for the better or not... bombs are still drying... but I hope! Most of them already dedicated as "Mitbringsel" (bring-along-gift....).

Bath bomb in action!

I love it! I love it! I love it!

Bath bombs!

Yes, something new. Again ^^ After falling in love with soap making I just stumpled over recipes for bath bombs... and how could I resist?

I made three versions from one basic batch:

• with rose petals and oil and red colour
• with orange petals and vanille and yellow colour
• with cornflower petals and birch tree scent and blue colour

I tried to use the scent only in small amounts so it wouldn't be too overwhelming for a sensible nose ^^

During drying...

...and packed...