hello everybody this is Ariane Arsenault and today I am making bath bombs!
This one is a homegrown lavender and giant salt crystals bath bomb but the
one I'm going to be demonstrating today will be made out of Labrador Tea which
is a local ingredient. It's a plant that grows here in the Magdalen Islands
everywhere! It's a bush and we pick the leaves and I will use some ground
Labrador tea within the bath bombs. Also these will be scented with eucalyptus
essential oil as well as a little bit of spearmint essential oil. These will be
very refreshing and invigorating to toss in the bathtub, and without having you
waiting any more I will show you the process of how these are being made!
Let's go! The general guidelines when making bath bombs is to use two parts of
baking soda - one part of citric acid. So I'm almost done measuring the baking
soda and my recipe makes about 20 bath bombs. You can make small batches of bath
bombs at home and use smaller quantities and measure by the cup but if you make
them for the purposes of reselling them, always measure your ingredients on a scale
That is the only way to know exactly what went into your formula. Okay
what creates the fizzy reaction in bath bombs is the combination of citric acid
and baking soda so these two ingredients are a mus; you cannot make bath bombs as
far as I know, without these two components. Now this formula is a basic
fizzy bath bomb it will not foam so I am adding some cornstarch into the mix but
if you wanted to make a foaming bath bomb you could substitute the cornstarch
for SLSA which is a mild foaming agent or a surfactant. Now let's get in
there and mix everything up. If you are working with SLSA make sure to wear a
dust mask as it it is not something easy to work with.
It'll make you cough if you don't wear any facial mask. I always do this part
by hand as using a stand mixer would make everything puff up in the air. All
right back on the scale so in this recipe I'm using grapeseed oil as it is
a very light oil. It's moisturizing and it's very easy to remove from the bath
bomb mold. It's not as sticky as others so here we go
there we go and I will also be adding my essential oils and always measuring by
weight. Eucalyptus and a little bit of spearmint to get the fresh scent in
this bath bomb. There we go let's not forget to add the Labrador tea, this has
already been pre measured it doesn't look like it, it's very
lightweight and there's only one gram that goes into this entire recipe!
let's now mix this together I start by hand just so that the dust doesn't get
everywhere and then I will take a mixer and mix it all up and really good
okay now I will split my batch of bath bomb mixture in half because I want to
get a two-tone colored bath bomb. Part will be green and the other part will be
white I am using color bomb dyes from Nurture Soap Supplies. Here they are and
before integrating them into a bath bomb mixture they will need to be "bloomed" and
I'm going to show you just how this is done! It's pretty easy to do, all you need
is a wetting agent like water but in this case I'm going to be using witch
hazel water as this is my wedding agent for my bath bomb formula and I'm going
to use baking soda to bloom the colors. I'm going to measure my witch hazel so
I'm going to use half of the amount that I need for my formula to make my color
so go now I'm going to carefully measure one gram of this yellow, there we go! One
gram and add just a little little smidge of the blue because you don't need a lot
of blue to turn that yellow to green! Mix with a mini mixer. I'm just going to mix
it all up, mix it very well and I'm going to test the color!
On a little piece of fabric and if I wanted greener I could add some more
blue. Now it's time to add the baking soda, carefully adding some baking
soda, there we go, and just going to mix it up. You can see
that the side of the cup is a nice green. I will go ahead and split my batch and
add the color and the wetting agent and start whipping it all up, simply using a
hand mixer I'm going to whip and beat the mixture as much as I can to combine
the dry ingredients with the oils and essential oils before adding my wetting
agent. Okay, so now it's time to add the colorant I will go ahead and add the
green while whipping and then I will add the remaining witch hazel that is right
here into this part. Here let's go
Everything starts to fizz so you need to do this quickly
I always like to go back in with my hands wipe around the bowl just so that
no moisture is left on the sides and go back to the bottom, turn everything up
and make sure that everything is well combined. I will do this for both
mixtures and then I will start molding them.
Depending on the climate you live in, you may need more or less wetting agent to
make your bath bombs. You need to test the consistency by pressing them in your
hand and kind of wiggling it around is the way to know if your bath bombs
are ready. This one looks nice if it holds its shape without breaking this means
it's ready. It needs to feel like wet sand and I think this is good! All right
let's start molding! I am using these stainless steel bath bomb molds they are
from Xen, I will put a link below. These are by far the best hand moldable bath
bomb molds that I found on the market! I have tried plastic, aluminum, I have tried
many different things and these worked so great.What I do is I take, remember
the giant salt crystals? So I will put a couple of these on top and
then I just add a little bit of green, a little bit of white and I kind of try
and fill both sides of the bath bomb. I put a couple giant crystals inside them.
I will set this aside on my foam right here and I will do the same thing on the
other side except this time I will not be using any embeds on that side.
Making bath bombs is messy and then I take both sides of the bath bomb and I
press the one without the embeds on the one with theembeds. There we go!
Press really nice okay!
and then I just kind of squeeze a little and then lift it up and turn it around
squeeze a little and lift it up voila! Put it on the foam to dry and make
another! So I'm simply going to add the big salt crystals and then put a
little bit of green, a little bit of white, there we go!
and put some salt crystals inside as a little extra bonus! Now I'm going to put
this on the side and do my my other half. It takes a little bit longer to make
these multiple color bath bombs but they are so much fun to look at!
All right try and making all of this very equal so that I have the same amount or
approximately the same amount of white and green and then press firmly and
there we go! Take the spoon, tap right there, right in the center, squeeze,
squeeze and remove! Squeeze, squeeze and remove! And Voilà!
All nice and neat! okay let's try something fun! I did not invent this
technique but I have seen people swirling, yes! Swirling bath bomb mixture
into their bath ball molds! So I'm gonna do one side with the crystal salt embeds
and the other side I'm going to try and swirl it with a chopstick! Let's just
do the one side with the basalt crystals like I did all the other ones
and now on the other side I'm just going to put some green on one side like this,
not too much! And then some white on the other side and then taking a chopstick. I
will just start to swirl it in there and then I'm just going to fill it up with
the bath bomb mixture! Keep alternating between the green and the white, press
together! Yes! This is exciting! Oh tapping with a spoon, squeeze, squeeze
and this is the side with the salt embed and squeeze, squeeze and lift! Look at
that! Isn't that neat a nice little swirl on the bottom of this bath bomb?
Thank you so much for watching this video! I really hope you've enjoyed!
If you did, hit the thumbs up button and if you wish to learn how to make bath bombs
I would highly recommend that you get this book: it's called Make it Fizz. It's
from Holly Port, she is the best in her field for making bath bombs. I've had the
pleasure to meet Holly in 2015 in Indianapolis when I was a speaker for
the Handcrafted Soap and Cosmetic Guild and she was a member of the board at
that time. Her book is great, I will link it in the description box below.
Now thanks for watching this swirly fizzy bath bomb video and just before I
let you go I made a mini with my leftovers and we're just gonna plop it
into the water and see the fizzy reaction! Let's go! If you aren't
already subscribed to my channel please do and enable notifications so that you
are aware whenever I release a new video! Would you look at that! How fizzy and
cool is that? Now this is a fresh bath bomb, it was made today so it will fizz a
little faster than usual but after these have dried and have become rock-hard
they fizz for a couple minutes in the bathtub! These are awesome!
Kids love them and they produce fizz and color and scent and moisturizing in the Tub!