DIY Lavender Bath Bombs

Greetings, Everyone! I'm sure by now, everyone knows how much I am obsessed with Lush products. However, the closest store is about 45 minutes away from where we live, which is probably a good thing or else I'd be in there once a week buying more products. My two favorites I always grab when I go are the twilight bath bomb and the milky bubble bar.

While watching my YouTube subscriptions the other day (yes, I watch a lot of YouTube, blame my husband for getting me hooked!), I came across a recipe for bath bombs from one of my favorite beauty channels, Rachel Talbott. I've been wanting to try making them myself for a long while now, and I finally decided after watching the video that I would attempt to recreate them at home this week. They were much easier than I thought to make, and I was very pleased with the results!

Here is the recipe that she used:

4 oz Baking soda
2 oz Corn starch
2oz Citric acid
2oz Epsom salt
2 Teaspoon water
2 Teaspoon coconut oil

I added:

12-15 drops lavender essential oil (more if you want the scent stronger)

Dried lavender petals

I started out putting all the dry ingredients into a bowl and mixing them together until everything was thoroughly combined. In a separate bowl I put the wet ingredients. Then, I put the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mixed well, making sure that the dry mixture was wet all the way through. You want the mix to come to a stage where when you make a ball in your hand it should stay in one piece when you open your hand back up.

I lined my cupcake pan with liners, because I could not find a silicone mold that I liked enough. Picky, I know. Before putting in the mix, I put some dried lavender petals in the bottoms of all the liners, making sure only to add a thin layer so they would all stick into the wet mixture. Next, I added a heaping spoonful of the wet mixture into each of the cupcake liners, and then pressed the mix into the tins as firm as possible. I Let them set for 24 hours to harden, then they were ready to use!

If you like, you can make these in all kinds of molds, and all kinds of sizes! I love when these go in the water, they fizz just like the ones you get from Lush!

Which kind of bath bomb would you make? Which ones are your favorites from Lush? Leave me a comment below!

-A