HowTo: Make Bath Bombs

by Adrian How

Love to indulge yourself in a longbath every so often? For mood- add music, dim lighting, some candles, perhaps even a glass of wine or champagne (bordering on overindulgence, i know!). For effect- bath bombs!

Bath bomb? What’s a bath bomb? Sounds ‘bahaya’ – I can only associate it with the toilet bombs during my high school days which the mischievious and daring would throw a firecracker down the toilet in one of the cubicles (remember ‘jupiter’ or ‘petik mancis’? yeap… those were the standard issue firecrackers for toilet bombs). I’m sure you can imagine the after effect of the explosion. Okay, I’ve digressed to grosser topics… bath bombs are certainly not high school grade toilet bombs. So what are they? Here’s what wikipedia has to say on defining bath bombs.

A bath bomb, one form of bath fizzie, is a bolus which, when placed in bath water, dissolves partly or completely and effervesces, also in some cases adding scent, color, and/or other properties or materials to the water

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_bomb

Bath bombs aren’t cheap if you buy them commercially and since I’m talking about them in a HowTo blog post… you guessed right… I’m going to provide you guides on how to create your own bath bombs or bath fizzles. In fact, I’ll provide you three different guides to achieve the same goal. Take your pick:

1. Here’s SoapyHollow’s guide to making bath bombs via Instructables. Click here for instructions

2. Here’s another guide on making bathboms via TeachSoap.com. Click here for instructions

3. Here’s the version from About.com. Click here for instructions

Personally I like SoapyHollow’s version more as it’s not as longwinded as About.com’s version but more detailed than the TeachSoap variety. You decide which guide suits you best to achieve super economical indulgence in a longbath after a long hard day’s work. Fire the candles and cue,,, music.