hello everybody this is Ariane from La Fille de la Mer. Thank you so much for
joining me today as I will start my review of the beautiful bath bomb press
if you've been on my channel lately you may have seen the video when Lee Choy,
the owner and creator of the bath bomb press visited me here in the Magdalen Islands
and personally delivered this unit. Since then I've had the chance to
work with the press, try it out, try different formulas, different molds and I
will give you a full review giving you the features of this machine and telling
you what works best for me. First of all I would like to say that this model is a
Canadian design and it has been on the market for seven years almost eight and
I want to point out how perfectly packed it was when it arrived to me here in the
magdalen islands after traveling from Alberta because Lee actually mailed it
to me and then flew in to show me how it upright so she didn't actually carry it
in her suitcase because it was kind of heavy but I took some video of when I
received the Box opening it and showing you this was like in pristine packaging
nothing was moving in the box all of the parts were safe this machine is also
very sturdy and it was perfect when it arrived another factor to take into
consideration when you want to buy a bath bomb machine most of the time it
will be online so you can't actually see the physical unit is to head over to the
manufacturers website and the bath bomb presses website is really easy to
navigate let me show you so you can see that all of the items the molds and the
units are very well listed and look at that they even have a double press so
it's basically the same as the unit one except it has a second piston that will
press two bath bombs at once on the top left of the website you can choose your
currency whether you're in the US or you want to pay in Canadian dollars and
just so you know this item can be shipped almost worldwide a fun fact
about the bath bomb press is that they are very active on their Facebook page
and also on Instagram and they actually help to promote their clients so if you
have an Instagram business account and you make bath bombs with the bath bomb
press if you hashtag and tag them in your posts they will repost you to their
viewers and they have like a lot of people subscribe to their Instagram
account so that's really great for business let's take a closer look at
this unit it is very sturdy it is all aluminum so no arresting there is a
security switch here and the lever right there and then I already have any top
mold attachment hooked on and look at all these beautiful moles that I have
but they have many many other on their website so you have the heart mold right
here and then these are the sphere mold I have three of them but they have a few
others so I have the small the medium and the large and then the square mold
and the shower tablet mold the table space that this unit takes is 12 by 6
inches wide it's very stable but another thing you need to know before buying a
bath bomb press is that it needs to be hooked to a compressor alright so this
is a 6 gallon pancake compressor from porter-cable
it is a little noisy but it comes with 25 feet of hose so you can actually put
it outdoors while making the bath bombs or in the next room and then you will
need to build up the pressure and then raise the psi four spheres it's about 70
to 80 and then for other shapes it can go all the way up to 100 100 and 110 now
I'm gonna put on some gloves and a bandana
I'm gonna put this baby to use for the purpose of this review I am using a
recipe that was supplied with the bath bomb press and I will be coloring the
bath bombs with a purple dye it was actually sent to me as a gift by the
fizz berry let's try this out wow this is red and when I put it into the witch
hazel it's like turns purple these dyes are very concentrated so a little bit
goes a long way I used point 15 gram for this total recipe this is only baking
soda and I will add the wet ingredients first and then I will add the citric
acid when everything is well combined
okay let's hook up the machine voila check the pressure perfect and have some
fun let's see if this works let's just like do one test this is a
lot of pressure so don't put your fingers in there and make sure nobody's
around that could put their fingers from the back it's pretty safe just make sure
no kids are around this is not a machine for kids this is meant for adults I
believe okay
filling to the top and trying to leave this beautiful and with this machine you
can actually press a couple times to make sure that your bath bomb is very
very well packed this is what I was and the release is so easy
and the reason why there is an indent table that you can purchase for the
sphere molds is that if you want to pipe frosting on top it actually allows you
to pipe into the bath bomb and then the frosting holds better so if we take a
closer look at this machine there aren't any guides on this machine it's actually
a divot and all of the molds from the bath bomb press will fit right into his
divots so there's no need to adjust anything it'll just work with any mold
no let's press a heart and it pops right
Oh beautiful beautiful it's it's very funny because when you're soap maker
soon enough your clients are gonna ask you to make bath bombs so you start
making bath bombs and then and then when you start making bath bombs you kind of
get hooked to making them and then you become an addict of all of the shapes
and sizes of bath bombs that you can actually make and this heart just makes
me so happy
beautiful comes right out
oh it's not so good I am NOT working in an ideal position because I am working
in a little table and it's not good for my back I'm moving away soon and I will
have higher counters I promise
look at this heart isn't it cute alright let's just change shape I'm gonna use
the square mold because the square mold actually works with the same attachment
on the top here as the heart so I can just make hearts and squares and
alternate there's like it's really easy for these molds to be switched up
without having to unscrew or screw anything back on and off same thing as
the heart pops right out oh we got a beautiful square see these
aren't the same size so what you can do is you can work on a scale put your bowl
on a scale and then as you take powder out of the bowl you know exactly how
much goes into your mold so this way you can make evenly shaped shapes you can
make even shapes okay so you can press down with your fingers and the palm of
your hand and then even if the top isn't perfect when you put the top part of the
mold it will just push everything in and make everything come out nice and smooth
I am now trying read 28 by v ferry again it said dye that is 90% pure and look at
this pink is creating amazing I love it
one thing that I realized while testing out backbones machines over the summer
is that not only what equipment you are using has an impact and the final bath
bombs but the ingredients that you use and most importantly baking soda and
citric acid can come in various forms from different brands some of them are
coarse and some of them are really fine there is food grade there's technical
grade so I find that food grade really fine citric acid is what works best for
me and also when you find a type of baking soda that works for you stick
with it because I've had problems with this summer I was using a brand that was
working great for me and then I got another supplier shipping me some baking
soda because I had an in order to make for others things and I just thought you
know I'll get the baking soda there instead it was a different brand and
same recipe same machines same equipment the Bombers wouldn't hold so when you
find something that works great for you stick to it
i scented these in cotton candy and I think that the pink is perfect
you
this is the again the medium round sphere and because these are pumpkin and
I'm making them for Halloween I'm sprinkling a little bit of gold silver
and black galaxy mica from the fist re
and because some things have a problem having a round bottom when I dry my bath
bombs I decided to use these half sphere molds and set my bath bombs in them and
place them back into the drying tray and doing this keeps the shape perfectly
perfectly round here's another way I found to stabilize my half spheres so
that they could sit into the plastic molds and dry and keep their nice round
shape I just took PVC pipes and I split them
in half or actually my father's put them in half for me and then I just put them
in my drying trays I put my plastic sphere molds in them it keeps everything
up straight so the bath bombs can dry in there the bath bomb press is a bath bomb
making machine that has been well known and recognized in the handmade industry
for the past seven years it comes with a full one-year warranty on all moving
parts and I highly recommend you head out to their website to read their
conditions of use if you want to know more details about this as of today they
have 16 different molds including the three top indent that go on the sphere
small medium and large molds if I had to advise you on which molds to get with
the unit up and purchase I would say get a sphere mold
I think the medium would be like the best seller because it's a really nice
size to use in the tub the heart mold of course is a big win for me I love it the
kids love it so get the heart I would get the mediums
fear and I would get the cube these are overall my three favorite moles there
are other moles that I still haven't tried and I'm gonna put a card right up
there and I'm gonna ask you which of the bath bomb press modes would you like to
see me put to use that I don't already have and who knows maybe we'll see this
machine comes with a pretty high price tag I would call this an investment for
your business usually investment turns back into
profit and this machine will help you make professional-looking bath bombs in
all the shapes that you love and it should turn back into profit pretty
quickly I know that personally I was afraid to get one of these machines
because of the price I had a $600 manual press from a different brand that was
not working for me and I was scared to make the jump and
get a pen Ematic press now I'm really lucky because I was gifted this unit I
bought a couple molds but most of these were given to me by the bath bomb press
so that I could make a review for you guys to learn about their features I was
scared and I was pressing bath bomb by hands they were okay but now they are
super awesome it's really much easier on the body to use a press because when you
press them by hand it's your arms and your wrists that apply the pressure in
this case the compressor and the machine do all of the hard work for you so it's
really much more easy on your body and it makes perfectly nice smooth shapes
something else that I wanted to tell you about the bath bomb press is that they
are really active on social media mainly Facebook and Instagram and there's also
their YouTube channel you can write them through Facebook Instagram or email and
they are usually really quick to reply so if you need help on anything because
you have a problem operating the unit because if you when you switch from
manually pressing bombs to a bath bomb of course the formulas used may need to
change and the way you are working and thinking
the whole bath lawmaking process may need to change so they will help you
make it work they give you a basic recipe to start working with the press
as well as a tips and tricks document in order to use the unit with a compressor
so that is super awesome in conclusion I would say that this is definitely a
workhorse this machine is so easy to operate it boosts productivity it helps
you make more bath bombs with lesser body effort as it removes the distrain
from your hands and passes them onto the machine your products will look
professional you have a wide selection of modes and shapes if you want to know
more about the bath bomb press you can check all the links below if you have
any questions leave them in the comment section I will try and answer and I will
let Lee at the bathroom press know that she can head over there and answer your
comments also thank you so much for watching I hope this video helped you
understand how this machine operates and figure out if this is the choice for you
it has definitely made an impact on my productivity and I am totally thrilled
and in love with this machine see you later
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