- I love bath bombs.
Like they're just such a good time.
Woohoo!
Oh yeah.
Oh my God, it smells so good.
I'm Danielle Tullo and this is
Seventeen's DIY with Danielle.
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Raise your hand if you've ever spent
too much money on bath bombs.
I know I certainly have.
And when I first discovered bath bombs,
I became obsessed with them.
The scent, the whole experience of them,
they're so good but they're expensive.
I've discovered how to make them at home.
It's super simple.
It's much more budget friendly and they smell amazing.
It's actually really fun to make them.
All that you need is everything that's in front of me
and you can get at your grocery store or Amazon.
Baking soda, citric acid, epsom salt,
almond oil, corn starch.
Then you can get some essential oils.
Natural grocery stores, or maybe even CVS
or Rite Aid will have these.
I did order these essential oils off of Amazon.
And then you have your color adhesive.
I have lavender is one of my favorite scents.
I like to use dried flowers and it really feels
super luxurious and like what you would buy honestly
at the mall if you were to pick up some bath bombs.
Okay, I am ready.
I have a bowl and I have a whisk
and I'm gonna combine all of my dry ingredients together.
First, we're gonna start with the baking soda.
After that, you add half a cup of citric acid.
Next step is half a cup of epsom salt.
For the final dry ingredient,
it's half a cup of corn starch.
I got new nails.
Now I am trying to open the corn starch with my new claws.
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Then you're gonna whisk it all together
just to make sure they're nice and mixed.
This next step is totally optional, but I like to do it
because it makes my bath bombs feel extra fancy.
I add dry flowers.
It definitely makes it smell better.
And it's pretty affordable.
I got a pack of 10 different dried flowers for $10 online.
So I'm gonna use the rose petals 'cause I want to go
for a more floral, rose scented bath bomb this time around.
I'm gonna add about a handful of these dried roses.
They'll crumble a little bit and that's totally fine.
You want that so that you can get enough
of them into all of your bath bombs.
It feels very lush when there's a bunch,
it feels very fancy like you bought this fancy,
fancy bath bomb even though you made it yourself.
Dry ingredients done.
Now is the fun part.
We move on to the liquid ingredients,
which means picking out your scents, deciding
on your essential oils, your colors, all the good stuff.
A bowl for my liquid ingredients.
This is super important.
You have to, you must keep your dry ingredients in one bowl,
keep your liquid ingredients in another bowl.
Then when the liquid ingredients are ready
you can slowly bring them together.
If you do it too quickly, it becomes a mess.
There's like, it's fizzing all over the place.
It basically is like a bath bomb in this bowl.
Trust me, I've done this like 1,000 times, mix it slowly.
The first step is almond oil.
Almond oil is important for two things.
The first thing is that it will make sure that holds all
of the ingredients in the bath bomb together.
Obviously, important.
Second, it's hydrating, so it'll be really
nice on your skin and the bathtub.
So I'm gonna put in one and a half
tablespoons of almond oil.
Next up is just water and I just use a tablespoon.
Now the fun part where we get to really be chemists.
I feel like the smell of lavender
is like happiness and relaxation bottled up.
That's truly like what this is for me.
12 to 15 drops, just eyeball it.
Nothing happens if you do too much,
but like, I think it'll just be a little overpowering.
So you want to just like use your best guess,
smell it, see how it's going.
This smells really delicious.
That's perfect.
Last up is my coloring pigment.
This is not actually necessary.
You do not need to add this by any means.
If you want to just have no color in your bath, fine.
But like, I love a good color moment
for the Gram, obviously, but also like
I just think it looks really pretty.
So I like to add some color pigment into mine.
So I'm doing a peach color,
which I think should come out of it more pink.
Okay, you could also use food coloring
if you don't have this.
Color pigment is just, you can use it literally on food,
you can use it obviously in bath bombs.
So it's just, it's slightly different than food coloring.
It doesn't stain as much, but you can use food coloring
if that's all that you have.
I have my dry ingredients,
I have my wet ingredients and I have my bath bomb molds.
So what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to take
my wet ingredients and very, very slowly
put them into the dry ingredient bowl.
You're gonna hear a little sizzle.
There'll be some reaction, and you just want to make sure
that happens slowly otherwise it becomes a mess
and you basically have a bath bomb explosion
when you're not ready for that.
You can see it's already like sizzling up a little bit.
I'm gonna add some more.
Oh, there you do.
So you don't want all of that to happen at once.
You want to make sure that they can mix all together.
Now it's starting to really look
like a real bath bomb, which is so exciting.
Oh my God, it smells so good.
Oh, I love bath bombs.
Like they're just such a good time.
Woohoo!
Oh yeah.
We have bath bomb mixture.
This is ready to go.
We are ready to put this in the mold.
Texture is super important right here.
You don't want it to be too wet.
You don't want it to be too dry.
You want it to be just in the middle,
otherwise it's not gonna work.
A trick that I like, I don't hear any fizzing.
If you can hear fizzing, you've gone too far.
You've added way too much oil or water
or something that already activated it
and basically made a bath bomb in your bowl.
Not good.
These are my bath bomb molds.
You can get them on Amazon.
They're perfect.
They're easy to use.
So you want to entirely fill them both up.
And then when you bring them together like that,
you're gonna hear them kind of click, okay?
Like that.
It'll feel good, like you'll feel the click.
You're like, oh yeah, I'm making a bath bomb.
Like, it'll feel really good.
Now you need to wait one minute until it's done.
In that one minute, you can sing a song,
you can tell yourself a funny joke.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
A bath bomb.
You can sit awkwardly in silence.
I'm doing this because it loosens it from the edges,
so once it's ready to go, it'll be able
to pull apart super easily.
Oh my God, the color of this is just magnificent.
I would paint my room this color.
Like it's such a perfect shade of pink.
Hear the crunch, hear the crunch.
This is so satisfying to do.
Feels like a fun science project.
That crunch just really gets me every time.
So this is enough for four bath bombs.
You're definitely gonna have some leftover
but this isn't enough to make another one.
So what I like to do is actually put it in a jar
and then I can just sprinkle that right into my bathtub.
Now, the last step, again I'm gonna get my spoon.
Pretty!
Oh God, it feels so satisfying!
The DIY bath bombs are done.
These are rose lavender bath bombs.
That's what I'm calling them because I used the rose petals
and the lavender essential oils.
They smell amazing.
Now I have to wait 24 hours
before I can officially use them in my bath.
So let them sit overnight, and then you'll be good to go.
It's been 24 hours.
These are good to go.
I'm gonna go take an amazing lavender
rose bath with my homemade bath bomb.
Here we go.
It smells so good in here.
It has such a pretty pink shade, the flowers.
You guys, that was amazing.
I am so relaxed and just zen and perfect right now.
You need to make these bath bombs.
They're so good for yourself or someone you love
and you want to give them a great gift.
Cannot recommend enough, easy and fun
and also so satisfying and they smell amazing.
Like right now, it still smells like a spa in here.