GLITTER BATH BOMBS You will need: • Food colouring • Sweet almond oil • Lavender oil • 1.5 cups bicarbonate of soda • 0.5 cup citric acid (from a chemist’s) • Large fairy cake tray • Greaseproof paper • 2 mixing bowls • 1 small glass jar • Few drops of body glitter (optional!) • Rubber gloves (wear throughout) What to do: 01. Pour a few drops of sweet almond oil onto the greaseproof paper. Use this paper to grease the sides and bases of the fairy cake tray. 02. Sift the citric acid and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl (add the body glitter at this stage if you want a shimmery look) . Mix together well. 03. Take 1/2 cup of this base mixture and put it into another bowl, setting it aside. 04. Mix together 6 drops of lavender oil. 4.5 teaspoons of sweet almond oil and about 10 drops of your favorite food colouring in the jar. 05. Gradually pour the liquid form the jar into the mixture you put aside and mix quickly. Work the mixture in the palm of your hands until it sticks together in a ball. 06. Pop the ball into a cake mould and press down with a spoon. Repeat steps 3 to 6 until you’ve used up your base mizture. Leave the bombs to set overnight. 07. The next day, carefully turn the bombs out onto a flat surface. Now all you have to do is simply run a bath, and drop in a bomb. Watch it fizz! What’s happening? The citric acid reacts with the bicarbonate of soda producing thousands of bubbles of carbon dioxide gas << Go Back