Here is a new egg for your Easter Egg Hunt – the Easter Egg Bath Bomb. With fun colours and moisturizing oil, these little cuties make fun gifts for kids and adults!

Don’t confuse shower steamers for bath bombs, they should not be used interchangeably. Bath bombs include safe ingredients to nourish skin while shower steamers focus on aromatherapy.

Ingredients

Baking soda also help the bath bombs fizz, while making the water more alkaline which helps our body to flush out toxins. When baking soda is added to bath water, it helps with many skin conditions by relieving itchy skin and soothes eczema, hives, and psoriasis. It also helps to eliminate body odour.

Epsom salts are not actually a salt, but a mineral compound of magnesium sulfate. They help to reduce inflammation, relax sore muscles and joints, flush out toxins, and improve blood circulation.

Citric acid helps the bath bombs make all that fizz when they hit the bath water!

Beetroot Powder, Turmeric and Spirulina will be our natural colouring for the bath bombs. They are a healthier alternative to food colouring.

Witch Hazel will help the bath bombs be wet enough to stick together in this recipe.

Coconut oil is moisturizing and full of incredible skin benefits. Choose a good quality oil that is organic, cold pressed, and unrefined with no additives.

How to Make Easter Egg Bath Bombs

In a glass or ceramic bowl, combine 3/4 cup of baking soda, 1/4 cup of epsom salts and 1/2 cup of citric acid.

In a separate bowl, melt 2 tablespoons of coconut oil over a double boiler (bowl over pot of hot water). Once fully melted, remove bowl from hot water.

Add melted coconut oil to the dry ingredients in your other bowl.

Also add 10 drops of essential oils into the bowl. Here are some Spring Blends I recommend:

• 5 drops Lavender EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy) and 5 drops Orange EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy)
• 4 drops Lime EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy), 4 drops Orange EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy), and 2 drops Geranium EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy)
• 5 drops Bergamot EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy), 3 drops Lavender EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy), 2 drops Lemon EO (Young Living or Plant Therapy)

{I use and recommend Young Living Essential Oils and Plant Therapy Essential Oils because they are 100% pure quality essential oils. There are other reputable essential oil companies to purchase from. Your local drug store’s cheap essential oil can give you a rash and not have the same positive effects because most only contain about 10% of the pure oil and the rest is filled with synthetics. Do your research and find a company you feel comfortable purchasing from.}

Finally, add witch hazel in 1/2 teaspoon increments. It may bubble a little!

Mix all ingredients together until you get the consistency of damp sand.

• If it is too dry, add in 1/8 teaspoon of witch hazel until you have reached the right consistency.
• If it is too wet, add in 1 teaspoon of either cornstarch, arrowroot powder, or kaolin clay until you have reached the right consistency.

Separate mixture into 3 bowls and add 1/2 teaspoon of natural colouring to each bowl. Use turmeric for a yellow/orange, beetroot powder for a pink/purple, and spirulina for a green/blue. You can also use coloured mica powder instead. Mix the colour in each bowl.

Use coconut oil to grease the inside of your plastic easter eggs or use a small piece of saran wrap on the inside for easy removal. Then slightly overfill each half. Choose one colour for a whole egg, two different coloured halves, or layer different colours in your egg.

Once you have filled each half, press the two egg halves together and slightly twist to combine.

Let dry inside the plastic egg for 1-2 hours and gently remove the bath bombs. Leave to fully dry for 24 hours.

Place bath bombs in a glass container or jar for storage.

Drop into bath water to use!

Happy Easter Egg Bath Bombing!

Have you used a bath bomb before? Do you take relaxing baths?