What is a Bath Bomb?
Bath bombs, also known as bath fizzers, are dry ingredients that are designed to effervesce once in contact with warm water. Once it hits the water, it releases essential oils, scents, colors, and bubbles to elevate your bath experience. Bath bombs can help condition the skin and soothe sore muscles. Additionally, they may help detox and relax the body and mind. The great thing about bath bombs is that they contain the precise amount of oils and bath salts that you would normally have to purchase separately. Not only does using bath fizzers speed up the bath time process, but they make the experience so much better.
Bath bombs for kids should have the following characteristics:
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Kid-Friendly Scents - Use mild, sweet aromas like strawberry, vanilla, cotton candy. Avoid strong essential oils.
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Gentle Ingredients - Use baking soda, citric acid, cornstarch instead of clays or flower petals. Use less citric acid to reduce fizziness.
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Fun Shapes and Colors - Use cookie cutters or molds to make fun shapes like stars, hearts, animals. Use bright food coloring gels. Avoid loose glitter.
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Light Scenting - Kids have sensitive noses so light fragrances are best.
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Individual Packaging - Package in jars or plastic wraps to prevent crumbling. Label scents/shapes.
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Adult Supervision - Supervise use to prevent ingestion or skin irritation. Don't let kids handle citric acid.
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Limit Usage - 1-2 bath bombs per bath. Avoid too many at once.
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Child Participation - Let kids help mix colors or shape the bombs to make it fun!
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Safety First - Ensure no small parts or choking hazards from embedded toys or confetti.

Bath bombs can be safe for kids to use if some precautions are taken:
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Use child-friendly ingredients like baking soda, citric acid, and cornstarch instead of adult formulations with essential oils, clays, or flower petals.
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Reduce the amount of citric acid in kids' bath bombs to limit fizziness that could be startling.
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Avoid adding loose glitter that could get in eyes. Use mild food coloring gels instead of liquid dyes.
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Embed only large plastic toys or confetti to avoid potential choking hazards from small parts.
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Kids should use bath bombs one at a time, not several together.
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Always supervise young children using bath bombs to prevent ingestion or irritation.
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Package bath bombs individually to reduce mess.
With non-irritating ingredients and proper adult supervision, bath bombs can provide a fun, fizzy soak for kids! Just take care to adapt recipes and use caution.
This kid-friendly DIY bath bomb kit includes all the ingredients and tools you need to create colorful and soothing bath bombs at home.
Kit Includes:
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Baking soda - The base of the bath bombs
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Citric acid - Provides the fizzing action
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Cornstarch - Helps hold the mixture together
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Fragrant oils - Kid-safe scents like strawberry and vanilla
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Food coloring gels - For colorful bath art
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Decorations - Glitter, confetti, plastic toys for embedding
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Bath bomb molds - Fun shapes like stars, hearts and animals
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Mixing bowl + spoon - For mixing up the bath bomb dough
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Plastic wrap - For individually wrapping finished bombs
The step-by-step instruction guide walks you through making the bath bomb mixture, scenting it, coloring it, and molding it into fun shapes. Finish them off by sprinkling on glitter or embedding toys.
Make bathtime fizzy and fabulous with these safe, gentle and moisturizing bath bombs. The perfect STEM activity for kids to mix up science and creativity. All ingredients are non-toxic and safe for kids' sensitive skin.
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