Bath bombs

I can't believe another two months have passed since I last posted on the blog! Of course those two months are easily the most hectic of the year, what with Sinterklaas, Christmas, my daughter's first birthday and work's quarterly reports and annual reviews all following each other in quick succession.

So... As always, I made loads of gifts for Christmas but not only I couldn't post about them until I'd given them to their recipient, I've also just realised that in the flurry of making, I've forgotten to take pictures, silly me!

I did manage to photograph my bath bombs though, so I can tell you about them in a bit more detail.

Back in October, I became a member of the Women's Institute. I'd been wanting to join for ages and a branch opened right around the corner, and it's full of lovely crafty yummy mummies, just like me (Well, they're yummy, I'm not sure I qualify for the same adjective). The first meeting we had in November was a demonstration in the art of bath bomb making so of course I had to make some for Christmas! The base ingredients are relatively easy to find - I bought mine from the same people I buy all my aromatherapy stuff from: www.baseformula.com.

I made 3 batches, the first one was to experiment with the recipe, and then when I had that perfected, the next two batches were my gifts, with two different scents and decorations. What I learnt in my first batch is that rubber baking moulds don't make very good bath bomb moulds. You have to pack the mixture tightly in them and the more I packed it in, the more the moulds expanded which meant that what should have been a heart ended up only very vaguely resembling one. In the end, the only thing that worked well was cupcake cases in a bun tin.

Once I worked all the kinks out, this is what I came out with:

I think people enjoyed receiving them, I haven't had any feedback yet on how they liked them in the bath. My daughter definitely thinks they're the bees knees, she loves playing with them while they fizz in the bath. And I take great comfort in the fact that I know exactly what's in them and that they contain nothing that could damage her precious skin.