For our basic bath bomb recipe you use one part citric acid to two parts baking soda.
Make bath fizzies epsom salt.
Essential oils are added to provide a scent and epsom salts are added to help hydrate the skin.
When you have a cold eucalyptus oil can help you breathe easier.
Fizzy salts are a kind of a mixture of bath salts and bath bombs resulting in the texture of bath salts and the fizzing of bath bombs they re the ultimate in bathing fun as well as being easy and inexpensive to make.
When these ingredients become wet they react with each other and fizz.
But as epsom salt is a popular bath salt and treatment it makes sense to include it into your bath bomb recipes.
Bath bombs are a way to pamper yourself and can help you relax.
This ratio will give you the best fizz possible.
Also if you have bored kids they ll not only enjoy making these fizzy salts but will enjoy bathing in them as well.
Make bath bombs at home with epsom salt to help soothe dry skin.
These homemade bath fizzies are a great solution.
Made from nourishing sea salt or epsom salts alkalizing baking soda and fizzing citric acid with a nourishing oil and vanilla base.
Feel free to mix multiple scents together to create a unique combination.
I hope you and anyone you gift them to will enjoy my creation of pop rocks fizzing bath salts.
How to make bath bombs.
Contrary to what you might think epsom bath salts are not a required ingredient to make bath fizzies.
These pop rocks fizzing bath salts would make the perfect gift for a child of the 80 s like me or anyone who loves fun homemade beauty products.
Up to one cup sea salt dead sea salts or epsom salt softens water soothes skin relaxes muscles and speeds up fizzy drying process choose a fine grade 1 2 cup sodium lauryl sulfoacetate sls is milder to the skin than sodium lauryl sulfate and is safe for children according to the chemistry store.
Fizzy bath powder can be a fun addition to kids bath time or can be used for calming before bedtime.
These can be packaged for a great gift or made countless ways for relaxing baths anytime.
Bath bombs contain a bicarbonate and acid mixture.
Other ingredients can be added like cream of tartar or kaolin clay to make the bombs harder or epsom salt for a muscle soothing soak.
Especially in the recipe below as the bath salts add a nice colorful and personal touch to the bath fizzies.
Add several drops of food coloring to change the color of your bath bombs and stir the mixture well to combine thoroughly.
Or you can use polysorbate 80 like we did in these bath bombs to bind the coloring.
If you love flowery scents try ylang ylang essential oil or jasmine.
Keep it simple by sticking with the bath salt recipe below or customize your salts with your favorite colors scents and mix ins.
To make your bath bombs extra luxurious add in your favorite essential oil up to 6 to 10 drops.