Bath Bomb Attempt 3
Hey reader!
I had done this project a while ago and somehow the pictures for it never made it to my folder for blog writing. This is very sad for many reasons. Full disclosure, this is attempt number 3 and I have already done attempt number 4 at this point. Sorry, that means that you are going to get two bath bomb posts really close together. Also spoiler alert: neither attempt is very successful. That might take some of the heart pounding suspense away from my blog's normally high-stake writing style. I think we will find the power to press on though.
You might recall in my last attempt, I used vegetable oil in the recipe. This led to a really oily experience that I wanted to avoid. I read some things that told me I might have more luck using avocado or coconut oil in my recipe. PS. What is up with the love affair with avocado lately. What did we do before discovering this wonder food. Our collective skin must have been so dry.
Avocado seems to have worked really hard to prove it shouldn't be eaten. I mean, its butt-ugly first of all. Secondly, its 75% rock hard seed. I try not to eat things that are 75% rocks.
I wanted to approach this project scientifically, so I didn't add much else to the bath bomb beyond the oil, except a little color so that I could differentiate my two recipes.Just like last time, the recipe is 2 parts baking soda for every one part citric acid. This time, my recipe had no water in it, just oil. Since oils don't react with baking soda and citric acid, I didn't have to do the slow add thing. Science is cool.
Here you can see a bowl full of wet sand that is pink. That sand contains coconut oil in the recipe. That makes it very distinguishable from the green sand I put the miracle food avocado in. Avocados are green so that makes sense. Coconuts are... well they aren't pink, but I have it on good authority that their favorite color is pink. Not all coconuts of course, that would be a huge generalization. Just most of them.
I decided that my best molds were the circle molds, but since this was a recipe experiment, I would only use half molds. No need to fight with making spheres if the whole thing turns out gross and oily. (spoiler: like they did)
They are definitely super cute looking. This time, since I wasn't trying to make globes, I could pop them out of the molds to dry. I think this is a good way to go and helped speed up the process. However, it does mean that the finished product doesn't have the "normal" spherical shape. I also noticed that after sitting overnight, they didn't fit in the molds anymore, so there is definitely a little growing/reacting or settling that happened.
I had a little extra of each left and made myself a little watermelon one. That is definitely not scientifically helpful in this case, but will fizz up nice just the same.
They definitely were still very oily. I used a smaller amount than before too. The tub is slick like crazy afterwards. If I was trying to seriously injure the next person to take a shower in the bathroom, this would be the perfect product. Since that is not the goal, I had to keep doing some research.
Next time I am going to try witch hazel.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again. I am committed to figuring this project you. You should keep trying things, even if you screw it up spectacularly. Learn stuff from it!
Keep making cool stuff!
JoshPrime
I had done this project a while ago and somehow the pictures for it never made it to my folder for blog writing. This is very sad for many reasons. Full disclosure, this is attempt number 3 and I have already done attempt number 4 at this point. Sorry, that means that you are going to get two bath bomb posts really close together. Also spoiler alert: neither attempt is very successful. That might take some of the heart pounding suspense away from my blog's normally high-stake writing style. I think we will find the power to press on though.
You might recall in my last attempt, I used vegetable oil in the recipe. This led to a really oily experience that I wanted to avoid. I read some things that told me I might have more luck using avocado or coconut oil in my recipe. PS. What is up with the love affair with avocado lately. What did we do before discovering this wonder food. Our collective skin must have been so dry.Avocado seems to have worked really hard to prove it shouldn't be eaten. I mean, its butt-ugly first of all. Secondly, its 75% rock hard seed. I try not to eat things that are 75% rocks.
I wanted to approach this project scientifically, so I didn't add much else to the bath bomb beyond the oil, except a little color so that I could differentiate my two recipes.Just like last time, the recipe is 2 parts baking soda for every one part citric acid. This time, my recipe had no water in it, just oil. Since oils don't react with baking soda and citric acid, I didn't have to do the slow add thing. Science is cool.
Here you can see a bowl full of wet sand that is pink. That sand contains coconut oil in the recipe. That makes it very distinguishable from the green sand I put the miracle food avocado in. Avocados are green so that makes sense. Coconuts are... well they aren't pink, but I have it on good authority that their favorite color is pink. Not all coconuts of course, that would be a huge generalization. Just most of them. I decided that my best molds were the circle molds, but since this was a recipe experiment, I would only use half molds. No need to fight with making spheres if the whole thing turns out gross and oily. (spoiler: like they did)
They are definitely super cute looking. This time, since I wasn't trying to make globes, I could pop them out of the molds to dry. I think this is a good way to go and helped speed up the process. However, it does mean that the finished product doesn't have the "normal" spherical shape. I also noticed that after sitting overnight, they didn't fit in the molds anymore, so there is definitely a little growing/reacting or settling that happened.I had a little extra of each left and made myself a little watermelon one. That is definitely not scientifically helpful in this case, but will fizz up nice just the same.
They definitely were still very oily. I used a smaller amount than before too. The tub is slick like crazy afterwards. If I was trying to seriously injure the next person to take a shower in the bathroom, this would be the perfect product. Since that is not the goal, I had to keep doing some research.
Next time I am going to try witch hazel.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again. I am committed to figuring this project you. You should keep trying things, even if you screw it up spectacularly. Learn stuff from it!
Keep making cool stuff!
JoshPrime
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