Home-made bath fizzes are really simple and fun to make at home. There are loads of different recipes you can use. Ours is a simple version, based primarily on what ingredients we have available to us, and what suits both mine, and the kid’s skin.
What you Need to Make Homemade Bath Fizzes
For a plain bath fizz you will need…
150g of Citric Acid (Amazon affiliate link)
300g Bicarbonate of Soda (Amazon affiliate link)
A little water
Additions…
We also added 5 ml of Almond Oil (Amazon affiliate link) and 2.5 mls of Natural Vitamin E (Amazon affiliate link), fragrance and colour.
Citric acid is considered by many to be a great product for treating skin problems such as mild acne, pigmentation, clogged pores, excessive sun tanning, wrinkles, and dark spots.
Bicarbonate of Soda is an alkaline substance that is reported to have antibacterial, anti-fungal, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
We used a Tangerine fragrance oil that has a scent we love. Please remember that essential oils should always be diluted with a carrier oil rather than being applied directly to the skin. It should also be noted that not all essential oils are suitable to be used by all people (use particular caution with children and pregnant women).
The colour we used is one that is designed for soap making. You can also use food colouring but be aware that large amounts of it will mean giving the bath a clean after use.
How to Make Homemade Bath Fizzes
We sieved our Citric Acid and Bicarbonate of Soda into a Bowl, and gave it a really good mix. It is easiest to do this with gloved hands. Citric Acid does sting if it gets into broken skin or your eyes, so we strongly recommend using gloves.
Next you add the water. You only want to add enough water to moisten your mixture, so it’ll stick together. You are looking for the consistency of damp sand (see the photo above). Adding water will make your mixture fizz, and many of the tutorials I have seen suggest using a spray bottle to add a little at a time. We didn’t have one available, so simply added a teaspoon at a time – with my daughter throwing it in while I mixed. This method worked fine for us, although it meant there was no opportunity to take a photo of this stage.
In total we only needed to add about 15mls of water so please add cautiously. Too much water will cause your chemicals to react, and you’ll end up with all the fizzing now, rather than when you add them to the bath!
We used little silicon cup cake cases for our moulds. Simply press your mixture in firmly with your fingers – we left ours rough on top so we could embellish them with some little sugar flowers. I think they would look even prettier with some dry petals added. The mixture does harden quickly, so you will need to work fairly fast.
Our bath fizzes had hardened enough to remove from their cases in less than an hour . We then left them out to completely dry before packing them into glass jars. Bath fizzes absorb moisture really easily, so we recommend that you store them in an airtight container to maintain their fizz.
Bath fizzes are great fun to make (and use), and would make a lovely little gift. Please make sure if you do give them away as a gift that you include the ingredients you have used on the label. That will allow your recipient to make an informed choice to whether the ingredients you have used are suitable for them.
If you have enjoyed this tutorial, please check out our Home-Made Herbal Bath Tea Bags and our Rosemary and Peppermint Foot Scrub. We’d also love it if you shared our post with your friends.
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I want to buy your bath fizzes. They are perfect gifts.
They’re lots of fun to make Kellie – your girls would love them 🙂
I have been wanting to try making my own bath fizzes, but I hardly ever take a bath unless I’m feeling bad. Guess I will have to make some for gift giving. Thanks for sharing!
I have seen shower cube versions on pinterest Linda, will look out for a recipe for you 🙂
Can you recommend any suppliers for the ingredients – particularly the citric acid, colours and oils?
I had allergy testing last year by GP referral to Dermatology- after 45 years of increasingly bad eczema & strong steroids.
I now know the 6 things I am allergic to and can avoid them on my skin ( namely Tea Tree, Limonene, Linalool, PEG-100, methylchloroisothiazolinone & methylisothiazolinone).
It’s difficult to avoid them, (making my own products will help) but as a result I am eczema free, at last!! 🙂
Hi Joanna, I’ve bought from gracefruit.com before – they have the MSDS safety data sheets displayed on their site so you can check the chemical make-up of their products which is handy and would be great for you – so pleased to hear you are eczema free, it’s a horrible condition to suffer from x
I just love your blog Sarah, I get completely lost in all your beautiful projects, I’m even neglecting Pinterest and I’ve never done that. I can’t wait to try these.
Thanks Michelle, that’s a lovely thing to hear 🙂
See I’m back again for a little more Craft Invader inspiration 😉
We love having you pop by Michelle – you’re our award winning VIP blog friend! x
wow, these are beautiful and look so tasty!
Thanks Thomas, they are great fun to make, and are a lovely gift 🙂
I love making my own bath fizzies! I’ve made a couple different ones on my blog. Yours are so pretty though, they look like little desserts! Those flowers on top are adorable! I love the idea of using almond oil, I’ll have to remember that for next time!
Oh I’ll pop over and check out your recipes – there must be loads of different variations you can use – I know we’ll be making them again, both for ourselves and for gifts 🙂
This is great! They are so pretty. I try to stick to natural soaps since my kids have dry skin and eczema. We’ll have to give this a go…thanks for sharing!
Thanks Stacy, it’s hard when kids have sensitive skin. I didn’t even use wipes on my kids when they were babies – just water (and soap if I had to) and olive oil. They aren’t so sensitive now, but I still try and avoid too many undisclosed chemicals – atleast if you make your own, you know what you’ve put in it! Let me know if you try them 🙂
Love this! I have never been to lush but keep seeing their products being reviewed everywhere and I must say…I love a bath 🙂 I am going to definitely try this out! Thanks!
Let me know how you get on – I went into Lush once and had to leave as I couldn’t stop sneezing lol
Thank you so much for sharing this…those are the prettiest bath fizzes I’ve seen! Would love to try and make some of these to force myself to relax for a bit! 🙂
Thank you – there’s all sorts of essential oils you could use to help you relax, let me know if it works for you!
I LOVE baths products! It would be so much fun to make my own, I’ll have to give these a try. And they are so cute!
They really are simple to make Joce, and much cheaper than the ones you see in the shops – no idea how the justify charging so much. Let me know how you get on if you make them 🙂
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Thanks so much for featuring us on How to Sunday xxx
These are gorgeous! They would make a fantastic gift, especially in a hamper with other homemade gifts. Thanks for the fab tutorial and for linking up to #Howtosunday
Thank you Jenny, they make a great gift, and are much quicker and easier to make than I expected – let me know if you try them!
Hi Sarah, what a lovely gift these would make. I assumed that bath fizzes were more complicated to make, but your ‘recipe’ seems quite simple. I’m not sure though, that my lot wouldn’t try to eat them instead as they do look good enough to eat.
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My daughter informs me that my 10 year old son did try one – apparently he spat it out again pretty quickly – sometimes they have to learn the hard way lol. They were much simpler to make than I expected too, we will definitely being making them lots again in the future 🙂
Clio has been reading this with me, as a lush bath bomb addict she is very keen for us to give this one a go. I must say yours look very pretty and you can really hear the fizz in the video when it hits the bath. Another lovely creative idea Sarah, thank you for sharing with me on #Trash2Treasure
Thanks Fiona and Chloe, and thanks for watching my video – again, not the slickest video out there lol, but it at least shows that they do indeed fizz! Hope you do give it a go – they really are simple to make 🙂
I still have to try these, it’s on my to do list! And as I said before I even have a kit somewhere so really have no excuse! They look great x #HowtoSunday
They are much easier to make than you would think – dig out that kit!
These look lovely and such a good idea for easter presents! I definitely need to have a go at these over the summer!
Thanks Midgie, they would make a fab present, and would be really easy to customise 🙂
These are so pretty Sarah, and a great gift idea. They must have smelly amazing with the tangerine fragrance oil, #HowtoSundays
Angela x
Thanks Angela, the Tangerine fragrance is lovely – really uplifting 🙂
These looks so amazing – too nice to fizz in a bath! They could be beautiful biscuits! Such a great idea to make your own & they’d make fantastic gifts too. Thanks so much for sharing with us at #bloggerclubuk x
Thanks Becky, my daughter informs me my son did try and eat one (he should know better at 10!) – apparently they definitely dont taste as good as they look lol!
So pretty! They look like delicious biscuits. Bet they smell good too! #PoCoLo
Thanks Nell, they are ever so easy to make 🙂
What a lovely gift idea Sarah, they look so pretty too. I had no idea it was so easy to make bath fizzes, pinned for later x
Thanks Sarah, they really are simple to make 🙂
Love these, have to try this! x
Let me know if you do Kerry, they are lovely 🙂
I love these! I am a huge fan of a hot bath and love to add a fizzie to spoil myself, so does my daughter! This would be a great project for us to do together, and you make it seem fairly simple with your great tutorial! Are the flowers just sugar pieces used for decorating cakes and cupcakes? I love how the finished product turned out!!!
They are sugar flowers used for cakes 🙂 They are really simple to make Nikki – let me know if you and your daughter try them 🙂