You see them everywhere. Bath bombs, bath salts, shower gels all make your own or DIY!
Mom and I thought it would be fun to make our own. We settled on our recipe, shopped the hobby store for our molds and coloring. We decided on cute silicone candy molds and some regular plastic molds in the soap aisle. We were set! Then we had to find more than a small box of baking soda; off to the big box store to purchase a HUGE bag, the essential oils we already had. Breathe, Eucalyptus, Lavender, Tea Tree, Peppermint, Wild Orange and more. We are going to have some fun!
(Thank you Busy Bliss for your recipe)
Shower Melts Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup baking soda
- 2-5 tablespoons water
- 10 drops eucalyptus essential oil
- 10 drops peppermint essential oil
- 10 drops lavender essential oil
- (or your own combination of oils)
- Soap colorant (optional)
- Silicone mold (this is similar to what we used)
We found you can use cake, candy, cupcake, soap and candle silicone molds.
Directions
Add baking soda to a glass or metal bowl.
Slowly mix water with baking soda one tablespoon at a time until you reach a thick paste consistency. You may not need 5 full tablespoons, you may need a bit more.
Baking Soda, water and oils
Mixing really fast!
Add in your essential oil and soap colorant if using and mix well. We used colors which coordinated (or tried to coordinate with the scent of the melts) I used 15 – 20 drops of each oil because we wanted a stronger scent. If you find it’s not strong enough, you can also add a drop of oil to the finished melt right before you get in the shower. We found our colorants at Hobby Lobby and chose the primary colors first; second round was lilac, peach and sea foam. They are reasonably priced at both there or at Amazon. The primary colorants work well as you can mix these to make more colors than just the three. This is what the mixture looks like after the soap coloring is added. It’s a little like wet sand.
Press your mixture firmly into your mold. It may get watery at the top once it settles. Just take a paper towel and blot the water away. Put it in the freezer to dry.
After about an hour, your shower melts are ready to use (if you leave them in longer, they seem to collect more moisture and crumbles easily when removing them from the mold. Store them in a dry, airtight container for 1-2 months.
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