Supplies
Tools
- 2 small bowls
- 1 craft knife
- 1 old table-tennis ball
Materials
- 3 tbsp cornmeal
- 4 small packets of baking powder
- 40g citric acid powder
- 4 tbsp almond or coconut oil
- 5 drops essential oil of your choice
- Food colouring (optional)
- Dried petals (optional)
Directions
- Sieve the cornmeal, baking powder and citric acid into a bowl and mix together.
- In the other bowl, stir both the oils together and add the food colouring as desired.
- Add the oil mixture to the dry mixture in the other bowl and knead everything together well.
- Use the craft knife to cut the old table-tennis ball in half.
- Fill both halves of the ball with the mixture and then press both halves together firmly.
- Loosen the ball halves carefully away from the bath bomb.
- Leave your bath bombs to dry out for a few days before using.
!: Try mixing dried flower petals into the bath bomb mixture – choose petals to complement your essential oil e.g. lavender petals with lavender oil, rose petals with rose oil...