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Sure-Fire Bath Fizzies - How-to Formula
I came by this fun and fascinating bath formula through a circuitous
route, but sometimes those provide the best finds.
I stopped by the booth of an herbalist at a fair, and noticed she offered homemade “bath fizzies.” They are quarter-sized molded bath salts
about the texture of the old-fashioned fizzie, and you drop them in
the bath where they burst forth and blend with the bath water.
Essential oils are included if desired, and sometimes even plant
oils are added to provide moisturizing “oil blooms.”
Intrigued, with her help I tracked down the formula to make what
are officially known as bath bombs. They are surprisingly easy to
make with very fun results. The resulting fizzies also make great
gifts.
INGREDIENTS
©1998 Snowdrift Farm Natural Products
Dry Ingredients
1 cup baking soda
1/2 cup citric acid
1/2 cup corn starch
Sieve dry ingredients til you get a nice smooth blend.
Wet Ingredients
2 1/2 T. sunflower or other light oil
3/4 T. water
2 teaspoons essential oil
vegetable or other natural colorant
1/4 teaspoon borax
Combine wet ingredients and borax in jar.
Cover tightly and shake vigorously.
Drizzle onto dry ingredients and blend thoroughly.
Pack tightly into moulds and slide out. Dry overnight.
Citric acid is available from Snow Drift Farms.
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add your comment »Citric Acid? Contact with dry citric acid or with concentrated solutions can result in skin and eye irritation, so protective clothing should be worn when handling these materials. Contact to the eyes can cause a burning sensation, and may cause blindness with prolonged exposure in extremely high concentrations. Sometimes a high concentration of citric acid can damage hair and bleach it.
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I found out that humidity makes a big difference in your fizzies. The more humid it is the more trouble you will have with them getting hard.
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I made scented batches of these for Christmas. (I too had crumbling problems so just filled cleaned parmesean cheese shakers :-)) They were a hit!
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I had trouble with the fizzies sticking in the molds and crumbling. I think if I make this again I'll let them dry overnight in the molds. (As it was, I left them for about 5 hours.) Also, I might spray the molds with cooking spray before filling them.
They fizz very charmingly though. And my eight year old had a blast making them with me.
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I have made many products using snowdrift farm products and recipes and am very happy with them. Check out their web site for a lot of recipes including soap and perfume.
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sounds great I think I will have to try them
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