Can you say Plush?

My oh my I think I'm IN LOVE!!

Had just too much fun making these Bath Bomb Cupcakes with Frosting - so yummy looking and smelling it's hard to remember .... they are Da Bomb and NOT for munching!

Several of my attempts at bath bomb making didn't turn out so well; it's been a love/hate relationship with the bomb winning by frustrating me and making me want to QUIT!!  But I didn't throw in the towel or up my hands, I endeavored to persevere and I'm shore happy dat I did ... WooT!

From this dismal first attempt ...

Ooops!!

To my next give it a go ...

Double Ooops!

To 3rd times da charm ...

Awww  ....

Double Awww ....

To Perfection!!

Appleberry Spice Apple Blossom with Hibiscus Flower Powder bottom

Red Currant Frosting in girlie girl pink with pastel colored sugar crystals

Acorns, Apples & Aged Oak bottom

Red Currant Frosting in girlie girl pink with body safe fine Neon Purple Glitter

Thank you .... Thank you very much (think Elvis)!!



Making "great" bath bombs isn't newsworthy except to the maker; ya just want everyone to know that "hey lookie I did it ... I did it!!!" and for  everyone to be just as excited as you are ... and you are excited, right? Right??

Let's get to the Plush ... Bath Bombs are called "bombs" because they explode with lots of fun fizzy stuff in your bath tub, kinda like a gigantic Alka Seltzer.  BBs are packed with pretty simple to intricate stuffs:



Baking Soda

Citric Acid

Essential or Fragrant Oils

Witch Hazel (to hold them together)

Squashed down - I mean mashed until your fingers hurt down - into a mold, wait a few minutes, pop out and ta-da ... Bath Bomb.

You can put a bazillion different intricate stuffs into your BBs, herbs and botanicals, spices, colorants, sprinkles, glitter, making them so pretty you just wanna look and not get wet.  They can be any shape mold you can mash them into; but heed my advice don't put them into anything like metal or hard plastic cuz you can't pop them out.  Been there done that.

The Plush part comes from the frosting - oh my!!  I mean just look at that frosting!!

Thick, rich creamy just like any edible cupcake and except for the SLSA (get to that in a minute) you could eat this!

Meringue Powder
Powdered Sugar
Creme of Tartar
Color
Fragrance

Whip and then use a frosting bag and tip to swirl on your pretty frosting - add some extra splash with body safe glitter or colorful sugar sprinkles, edible cupcake candies, shoot the toppings list is as endless as the inside list.

So, back to that SLSA. What is it?
Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate. Loads and loads of bubble making product found in a plethora of bath and body products. It is also a name that most people typically confuse with a couple of other somewhat similar sounding ingredients, SLS - Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and SLES - Sodium Laureth Sulfate.  Read about them here:

http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/sodium-lauryl-sulfate.html

And here:

http://www.jasoncosmetics.com/sodium_lauryl_sulfate.html

Research more on your own time, just Google their names. 

Back to SLSA ..

http://www.cosmeticsinfo.org/ingredient_details.php?ingredient_id=252

Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate is derived from coconut and palm oils; a safe skin friendly surfactant (foaming agent) for both skin and hair. This mild plant derived surfactant creates a rich, luxurious lather that effectively removes suface oil, dirt and bacteria, without stripping or drying sensitive skin. Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate is also hydrophillic, This meas it is attracted to water, which enables it to dissolve more readily in water. thus providing superior rinseablility.

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At Bliss Body & Bath, I decided to go with SLSA as the milder, gentler of the surfactants.

In the end, we are all entitled to make our own choices.  I just know that my products are wonderful for your skin, smell amazing and provide you with less expensive homemade beauty products made in small quantity alternatives to the expensive, mass produced machine made abundant ingredient beauty products that are downright scary.



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