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Design a Bath bomb and Soap flyer for your stall....even write a poem to lure your customers in to try your smelly wears... :-)

Poem and flyer © The Witchboard Witch

Making Bath Bombs with children

Here's a very handy tip.  Make sure you label your cornflour and baking soda when working with children.  We accidentally tipped in two cups of cornflour, on top of the only citric acid we had left!  Cooking skills came in handy here.  It was a mystery mix, but it worked...they FIZZED and left your skin so soft!

Bath Bomb Recipes

Basic Bath Bomb Recipe 1

1 1/2 cups baking soda
1/2 cup citric acid
2 1/2 teaspoons of oil
8 - 12 drops of food colouring
5 mls of smell
Water or Witch hazel to mist

Sieve baking soda and citric acid.  It's like making muffins.  Add the dry all together. Then mix together the oil, colouring and smells.  Add this to the dry ingredients and mix quickly. Mist with distilled water or witch hazel until you get the correct consistency.

For a step by step guide to bath bombs click here.

Basic Bath Bomb Recipe 2

1 cup baking soda
1/2 cup cornflour
1/2 cup citric acid
2 1/2 tablespoons of Grapeseed oil
1 teaspoon of melted coconut oil
Add you colour and smells
Water or witch hazel to mist


The Recipe I used in the movie below

1 cup baking soda
3/4 cup citric acid
1/4 to 1/2 sea salt and mineral salts mixed
1/2 cup cornflour
1/3 cup powdered milk
2 1/2 tablespoons to 3 of Grapeseed oil
1 teaspoon of essential oils
1/2 teaspoon of colouring
Petals from dried pansies
Water or Witch Hazel to mist

I played around the with the oil and colouring mixtures, like any cook does.  I went by the texture and smell - so sometimes you might need to add more smell or colouring.

Taking Bath Bombs into the classroom

Making bath bombs fits perfectly into both the Science and Technology Curriculum. What a great way for children to develop their own bath bomb recipe - what is the best mixture of sodium bicarbonate and citric acid to make the best fizz? How can this be measured? This would also bring in fair-testing.  I'm sure dropping a bath bomb into a bowl of water and asking 'What happened?' would provoke a lot of classroom discussion. Where did the idea of bath bombs come from?

Statistics can be brought into their learning as well. What is the best smell for making bath bombs? Is this different for girls and boys? They can then work out the total cost to make their bath bombs and the amount they'd have to sell them for to make a profit.

Children can develop designs for packaging and marketing of their bath bombs.

This would be a cool way to hook children into Science!