How To Make Beautiful Bath Bombs
Nag Champa scented bath bombs, colored with a mixture of Brambleberry's "Queen's Purple" mica and "Electric Bubblegum" mica. Becoming a Bath Bomber: What Are Bath Bombs, Anyway? And What's the Point? Recently, one of my farmers' market customers asked me jokingly, "So you're a soaper?" (You can be forgiven if you don't get the joke here--and I'm not sure I did either--but I think she was kind of amused by the idiom.) I replied, "Yes! And I'm also a bath bomber!" We bath bombers--unlike other types of bombers--pose no threat to the social order. We are just harmless homebodies who spend a lot of time making a huge mess of the kitchen, which is our laboratory for making delightful little confections for the tub--giant Alka-Seltzers, if you will. A bath bomb is basically a giant Alka-Seltzer for your tub. But in addition to fizzing explosively, it also scents and colors the bath water and may contain ...