When we moved into the river house there was no tub. We have a nice big shower but no tub. My in laws (who built this house and lived here for the past 26 years) never needed one. They were shower people. My husband is a shower person. He’d be perfectly happy if we never had a bath tub again. But me? I’m definitely a bath person. I come from a long line of bath people. My dad still has a bath most days. After we moved and settled in Rex and I discussed the whole lack-of-bathtub-issue and I said that we really didn’t need one, I would just learn to be a shower person.
Thankfully my husband knows me better than I know myself most days and he knew there was no way I would survive without a tub.
Now it took about 7 months, but we finally got a bathtub. And a beautiful deep one it is too. I have had a bath almost every single day since that baby was installed. So for my first week of The Pinterest Project it seemed appropriate that I make bath bombs.
I have made them before, but the first time was a total gong-show. I have no idea what we did wrong, but they were a flop. This time, though, I attacked it calmly and confidently and all went well. I think they can sense fear. The recipe I found on Pinterest only made 2 bombs. Let’s face it. That’s just not enough for this girl so I doubled it. Then when those turned out I made another batch so I now have 10 beautiful, smelly, balls of goodness drying out just waiting for a chance to bubble and fizz in the tub.
Link to pin: https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/AfCv7ioQhJ8vyfDUuV9t5mdqxGuf759xceDbRdO7WAo8UXhu571X_1E/
They are surprisingly quick and easy to make at home and SO much cheaper than buying them in the store. I love Lush bath bombs but at $6.96 EACH there’s no way I can justify that. After I made these two batches of bombs I calculated out what they cost. The following prices are based on our local grocery store, which I think is grossly overpriced so they should be cheaper in other parts of the country/world!
1 cup baking soda $0.69
1/2 cup epsom salt $0.30
1/2 cup citric acid $2.03
1/2 cup corn starch $0.25
2 tbsp coconut oil $0.60
Total recipe $3.87, makes 5 bath bombs so they work out to $0.77 each! Yep, you read that right. $0.77 each. That’s just 11% of what a Lush bath bomb costs. And you can customize the scent to whatever you want! Score!!
I already have lots of essentials oil and oil blends that I use for my candle making so I didn’t have to purchase any of those and as you only need a few drops (I used 10 drops of essential oils or a drizzle of my candle oil blends) it’s still so much cheaper than purchasing pre-made bath bombs. I purchased my bath bomb molds from Amazon a year or two ago.
Now the real trick is keeping them away from Maddie – the other bath person in the house!
