I love working with water-soluble dyes. They create such a deep vibrant color and you only need a little bit to color your batch. I have a blog post on colorants so make sure to check it out if you’re interested in using water soluble dyes, lakes, and micas in your bath fizzies.
I usually like to add my citric acid with all of my dry ingredients, then I would add my oil or butter of choice, next would go fragrance and polysorbate 80, and I add the final touch to the perfect bath bomb consistency by dropping 1-3g of water as my binder and mixing very fast to prevent activation.
However, I thought that it would be fun to try new things, and here I am to share my adventures in the bath bomb making world. Let’s go!
I used the following recipe

Grams | Ingredient Name | Phase |
280 | Baking Soda | A |
140 | Citric Acid | E |
5 | SLSA | A |
5 | Kaolin Clay | A |
10 | Milk Powder | A |
5 | Fractionated Coconut Oil (any lightweight oi will do) | B |
4 | Polysorbate 80 | B |
10 | Fragrance Oil | C |
10 | Natrasorb Bath (Bathsorb) optional | C |
0.3 | Acid Red Dye | D |
3 | Distilled Water | D |
- I started with sifting my dry ingredients (except for the citric acid) and mixing them thoroughly.

2. I mixed my water-soluble dye with 3 g of water and added to my dry mix.


3.Mix. mix mix. The longer I mixed the more colored turned my mixture.

4. Now we can add oils and fragrance oils. I mix my fragrance oils with Natrasorb (1:1 ratio) until they turn into a creamy paste. Then I added fractionated coconut oil and polysorbate 80.



5. It’s time to add my citric acid. I saw immediately how my bath bomb mix started to turn into this perfect, moldable batter. I didn’t have to add any extra oil or binder. If my batch was too wet I would add a little bit of kaolin clay or use a hand mixer to aerate it.



6. I packed my molds, unmolded my bath bombs, set them to dry for about 20 minutes, and in the meanwhile, I remelted my cocoa butter drizzle. I made a larger batch of cocoa butter drizzle a couple of weeks ago when I was making these bath bombs so I didn’t have to make it from scratch. I wanted my drizzle to be something between an icing and a frosting so I added about 1 tsp of baking soda to my drizzle to thicken it up.


I really liked experimenting and trying out new things and it looks like I got a decent outcome out of my adventures.
If you’re a beginner and you’re looking for a good starter recipe then I recommend this blog post. The list of suppliers is also available on the blog.
If you want to make a very moisturizing, soothing, and classical looking bath bomb then try this Oatmeal, Milk, and Honey recipe with a delicious honey-like looking cocoa butter drizzle.
Here’s the recipe in %

I shared a detailed post on how to use Spreadsheets to calculate your recipes, check it out, please. It will make scaling your recipes so much easier.
If you’re having trouble with keeping track of your supplies, labels, recipes, orders, etc, then take a look at this post where I share (completely for FREE) my Inventory &Sales Airtable base.


Enjoy!!!

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