I don’t know about you guys but I love a nice warm bath once in a while and ever since bath bombs have become popular, bath time seems to be a bit longer than usual.

Bath bombs are great, they not only smell fantastic but they contain oils that help soften skin! Unfortunately for us ladies who live in less commercial parts of the world, we don’t have easy access to these lovely little fizzy bombs.

After some research I found some great DIY’s and decided to try them out myself using at home products!

Making a bath bomb is pretty simple! They start off with simple base ingredients, from there you can add your own essential oils to suit your preference!

What you’ll need to make these pretty rose bombs!:

Base Ingredients

1/2 cup of citric acid 1 cup of baking soda 3/4 cup of corn starch 3 tablespoons of coconut oil (or any other oil of your choice) water to dampen

Other items:

Rose petals Vanilla extract 1/4 cup of powdered milk rubber ball or Christmas ornament

The base ingredients are to be used for any type of bath bomb you choose to make; the scent and color are entirely up to you!

For my rose petal bath bombs I decided to include powdered milk to help hydrate and smooth my skin, rose petals (of course) and vanilla extract……who doesn’t love vanilla!

Okay so first thing’s first! Mix in all of your dry ingredients, which is what I did here…

Next add in your wet ingredients, which were the vanilla extract and the coconut oil. Heres the tricky part. Once you add in your vanilla extract and coconut oil and mixed it well, try to compress the mixture with your hands. If the product can be easily molded without falling apart, you can go ahead and begin putting your bath bomb together, but if the mixture doesn’t hold well, add a few drops of water until you feel it can be easily molded.

To mold my bath bombs, I used a rubber ball which I found lying around the house. You can toy balls, christmas ornaments or basically any spherical object that you can easily fill and remove the dried bath bomb from. You don’t have to get super fancy with it guys, it is a DIY after all, just get creative and use what you already have around the house!

So, I cut a slit open at the top of the ball and slowly started adding rose petals and spoonfuls of the bath bomb mixture intermittently and compressing everything down very well at the same time. This is very important as the bath bomb will not hold well if it’s not compressed properly.

Once the ball was almost full, I carved a small hole and placed an intact rose in the center. I then closed the lid, secured it with tape and left it in a dry place for a full day.

Once I was sure my bath bombs were completely dry, i carefully cut open my rubber ball and VOILA, a beautiful rosey bath bomb!

Let me know if you guys have ever tried DIY bath bombs!

Until next time lovelies,

The Haute Topic ❤