Imagine yourself relaxing after a long day in a bath tube with warm chocolate. Can you picture it? because the bath bombs I prepared for today smell like a freshly cut piece of chocolate pie with light coconut notes.
Bath bombs are amazing and can be spectacularl while rejuvenating our skin. And if you're wondering if they really moisturize our skin, I'll answer yes, as long as you have used the right ingredients.
Today's recipe contains raw cocoa butter, coconut flour and coconut oil in order to incorporate them into the Coco Choco project (see here, here and here). After (at least) 5 years of trials and experiments I was able to make them exactly as I wished.I hope you like them as I do!
Coco Choco Bath Bombs
yields 4 bath bombs
350 g | 12 oz baking soda
140 g | 4.9 oz citric acid
29 g | 1 oz cream of tartar
12 g | 0.42 oz buttermilk
6 g | 0.21 oz coconut flour
8 g | 0.28 oz cocoa butter
8 g | 0.28 oz coconut oil
6 g | 0.21 oz fragrance oil (I used 3 g of coconut f.o. & 3 g of chocolate f.o.)
6 g | 0.21 oz polysorbate 80
equipment needed:
- bath bomb molds
- spray bottle for isopropyl alcohol
- high accuracy digital scale
- mixing bowl
- wire whisk
- gloves
- mask
Before you start making the bombs, sterilise tools, equipment, work surface and wear gloves and mask. Weigh your ingredients.
Pass the baking soda, the citric acid, the cream of tartar, the buttermilk and the coconut flour through the sieve, into your bowl. We use the sieve be cause we don’t want chunks. Stir with your whisk slightly. Add all the remaining ingredients (except citric acid- this will be added in the end) and stir again. Spray with isopropyl alcohol until the mixture is liquefied while stirring gracefully and do not stop until the mixture becomes like wet sand. You can use your hands for the stirring, instead of whisker.
Pass now the citric acid through the sieve and then add it into the mixture.
Pack the mixture in your mold firmly and press well. Pop out directly. If you don’t succeed the shape, pack the mixture back to the mold, press again and pop out. Let your bombs dry for 24 hours.
extra information
- baking soda removes the dead cells
- cream of tartar helps the bombs to harden while removes toxins and dirt
- buttermilk creates extra foam
- citric acid regulates the pH
- coconut flour gives a soft texture to the skin
- coconut oil and cocoa butter give powerful healing properties and intensive moisturizing effect
- polysorbate 80 is especially useful if you want to add oils to cosmetics. If, for example, you want to add almond oil to a shampoo or if you want to make a bath bomb or a bath oil, then Polysorbate 80 is the ideal ingredient to "bind" the ingredients to each other.
how to use
Just drop them into a bath of hot water and enter the bath. They are fizzy and their fragrance is wonderful.
