Effervescent bath bombs are a good way to create a positive at the end of the day.
With them, an ordinary bath will become a pleasant and useful procedure, a small holiday for the soul and body.
How to use ready-made bombs? It's very simple - throw bath balls into the water, they start to hiss and gurgle like geysers. The air is filled with a pleasant aroma, while the air bubbles create a slight hydromassage effect. Gradually the water acquires a beautiful color, filled with natural oils and mineral supplements. All this simultaneously acts on the whole organism, creating a strong healing effect. After such a bath you will feel a rush of new strength, joy and inspiration, and your skin will be gentle and beautiful. Candles, pleasant music, favorite tea will allow you to continue to enjoy peace and tranquility.
How to make bombs for the bathroom?
Make bombs for a bath with your own hands is not at all difficult, this will require:
- mortar or grinder for grinding the main ingredients. They should be small, so that the bombs stick together. This is one of the main conditions for their successful manufacture;
- mixing bowl;
- molds. As molds, you can use forms for baking, old tea cups, packaging from kinder-surprise;
- latex gloves;
- citric acid - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- baking soda - 8 tbsp. spoons;
- vegetable cosmetic oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- essential aromatic oil - a few drops;
- filler -2 tbsp. spoons;
- food colors - a few drops;
- additionally for decoration - beads for bathtubs, sequins, rose petals, flowers, etc.
In a bowl, thoroughly mix the crushed dry products. Try not to get water into the mixture, otherwise soda with citric acid will start to react. Add the base and aromatic oil, the dye, to the mixture. Dyes must be taken dry or alcohol. All carefully mix. If, when compressed into a fist, the resulting mass crumbles, add the oils and mix them thoroughly again. We lay out in the forms of decoration and tightly stuff the halves of the forms. With force, we press them together to stick together. After a few minutes, the molds can be removed, and the balls put to dry. Bombs are dried from 2 hours to several days, depending on the oil and filler that you will use.
Keep these magic balls in cellophane, so that the aromas do not evaporate, and water does not get on them. They look beautiful in transparent packing boxes and can serve as a bath decoration.
What can be included in the composition of bombs?
There are a lot of recipes. In bombs for a bath, the composition depends on the possibilities and the expected result. What you can use:
- Vegetable oils. Most often olive or almond oil. They are easy to buy in a store or pharmacy. Coconut oil is universal and suitable for all skin types. Any fruit oil can be used at will.
- Fillers can be:
- milk powder, cream, milk formula for children, they contain amino acids and vitamins. Well formed, like any starch;
- sea salt. The main supplier of minerals and trace elements. In many recipes, one of the main components;
- oat flour, green tea, coffee - tonic;
- coconut shavings, orange peel, lemon, flower petals;
- magnesia. It helps to relax the skin and muscles after a lot of physical activity, training.
- Take time and make yourself effervescent balls. Native people will appreciate your work. Still no one remained indifferent, using them in the bath.