If you’ve been tempted by the bath fizzies currently popular in specialty stores, you might be wondering how budget-savvy folks can replicate them. Let’s talk about how to make them at home for less with this easy homemade bath fizzy recipe — for yourself or for gift giving.
Try your hand at making homemade soap, too!
Store bought bath products are pricey. Also? It’s hard to know what is in them. Personal care products don’t always come with an ingredient label. If you love baths, but don’t necessarily love soaking in unknown ingredients, try making these DIY bath fizzies.
These lavender scented fizzy orbs are great for adding to your own relaxation routine, but they’re also great gift ideas. Package them up with a bar of homemade soap and a good book, tuck them into a basket lined with crinkled paper shreds, and tie on a tag.
Making homemade bath fizzies
This recipe start with a combination of dry ingredients, including baking soda — that’s what gives them the fizz.
Mix the dry ingredients with the liquid ingredients slowly, adding just enough water — a tiny bit! — to create a mixture that holds together when pressed. You don’t want them to fizz now; you want them to fizz later, when you drop them in the bath water.
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Forming the bath fizzies
For gift giving or if you plan to make a lot of these, you may want to invest in some specialized round molds.
You can also use a couple of items that you probably already have in your kitchen: an ice cube tray or muffin tin. Just press the mixture into these forms as tightly as you can and allow them to dry.
Keeping them fresh
To protect them from humidity, store them in an airtight container. Adding a moisture absorber isn’t necessary, but it can help extend the life of your handmade bath products.
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Easy Lavender Bath Fizzy Recipe
Equipment
- [Molds]
Ingredients
- ½ cup cornstarch
- ½ cup citric acid
- ½ cup Epsom salt
- 1 cup baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Mica powdered soap dye
- 2 tablespoons dried lavender flowers
- 10 drops lavender essential oil
- 2 ½ tablespoons coconut oil melted
- 1 tablespoon water
Instructions
- In a large bowl, whisk together cornstarch, citric acid, salt, baking soda, mica powder, and dried lavender petals.½ cup cornstarch, ½ cup citric acid, ½ cup Epsom salt, 1 cup baking soda, 1 teaspoon Mica powdered soap dye, 2 tablespoons dried lavender flowers
- In a small measuring cup, whisk together essential oil, coconut oil, and water.10 drops lavender essential oil, 2 ½ tablespoons coconut oil, 1 tablespoon water
- Very slowly (to avoid as much fizzing as possible) add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
- Stir and mash together until it resembles sand.
- Immediately transfer bath fizzy mixture into molds, pressing mixture tightly into each side and adding a little to overflow each side of the mold.
- Press the mold together and twist until closed.
- Allow bath fizzies to rest (and dry) for at least 24 hours.
- To remove the bath fizzies from the molds, tap the outside of the mold gently. Then, twist each side of the mold and pull to remove the hardened orb.
- To give as a gift, place in an airtight jar.
Notes
- For gift giving or if you plan to make a lot of these, you may want to invest in some specialized round molds. You can also use a couple of items that you probably already have in your kitchen: an ice cube tray or muffin tin. Just press the mixture into these forms as tightly as you can and allow them to dry.
Can I use lemon juice instead of citrus acid?
I think you’ll have a problem adding that much liquid, but I haven’t tried it.
How many does this recipe usually make? or an estimate of how many it’d make in the ice cube tray
Ice cube trays vary in size a bit, but I’d say about 20-ish.