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My house is overflowing with plastic Easter eggs. I’ve been using them for quite a few projects lately and now I have more eggs than I really know what to do with. An Easter egg hunt this year for the kiddos is inevitable.
Today, I’m using a pack of my larger plastic Easter eggs for a super fun project. Get ready because we’re making Easter Egg Bath Bombs! You know, those fun little balls you throw into the tub that start to fizz and make your water smell heavenly. Yep, those are the ones. And yes, you can make them yourself!
Ingredients (Will make 6 large bath bombs)
- 8 oz. Baking soda
- 4 oz. Epsom salt
- 4 oz. Cornstarch
- 4 oz. Citric acid
- 3 teaspoons water
- 2 teaspoons essential oil or fragrance oil for soaps, etc.
- 2-5 drops food coloring
- Larger plastic Easter eggs or silicone/plastic mold
- Confetti sprinkles (optional)
In a large bowl, combine the Epsom salt, cornstarch, baking soda and citric acid. Stir the ingredients together using a whisk. In a separate small bowl, mix together your wet ingredients: water, fragrance/essential oil and food coloring. Notice I used Galactic Grape. It smells AWESOME. Did you ever chew grape Hubba Bubba gum as a kid? Yes? This fragrance oil smells just like it!
Pour your wet ingredients into the bowl with your dry ingredients and whisk together.
The mixture will start to clump a little. Use your fingers to ball up a bit of the mixture to see if it is starting to stick together a bit. If not, you can add a little more water, but be careful. ONLY add a very little at a time or you will ruin the entire mixture. Take one of your eggs and put a little of the confetti sprinkles in one side or both. Then start tightly packing the bath bomb powder into both sides of the egg. Make sure there aren’t any air pockets – just a small hole is enough to make your bath bomb crumble so really pack the mixture in tightly.
This is also the step where you could place a very small toy inside the egg if you would like. Keep in mind this needs to be very small and light or the egg will not pack correctly. One time I tried to hide some turtle erasers in the eggs and they fell right apart.
Then push the sides together and let the egg sit on a towel covered with waxed paper for at least 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes carefully pry open the egg to see if the mixture has formed to the mold. If it has, it will look like this. The eggs need to dry completely overnight before you try and use them or package them up as gifts.
Just for fun, I had my 2-year-old help me out with a quick experiment. She dropped half of a bath bomb into this glass of water.
It worked better than we thought it would. It started fizzing and it fizzed more, and more, until I had a big mess on the table. Picture me placing my camera down as carefully and quickly as possible while I ran the glass of water to the sink to finish erupting. Really, Sara? Way to use your brain on this one. Sink next time, Einstein.
This is how my bath bombs turned out. Pretty sweet, right? These would be great gifts for friends and family and would be so much fun to put in the kids’ Easter baskets. Since my kiddos actually saw these already, we’ll just be playing with them in the tub this week.
Have fun making your own bath bombs! My house still smells like Galactic Grape and I’m LOVING it!
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what a wonderful idea! perfect for what i want to do for my coworkers for Easter!
how many eggs does it make?
i have about 50 Coworkers, so i know i’m going to need A LOT of ingredients.
Hi Lori, the mold I used made 6 larger eggs. Since you’re making eggs for so many, you may want to think about a mold where you can just pop the eggs out easily like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Even-Easter-Shaped-Silicone-Bakeware/dp/B009325REA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1486936040&sr=8-5&keywords=egg+silicone+mold
I have approximately 83 plastic eggs and a boyfriend who is very eager to help me, plus we aren’t planning on making them all at once, always good to space lots of work, seeing as we only have weekends to work on this stuff, but thank you
And I apologise for the silly question, I didn’t see where it says “makes 6” until literally just now
I love your ambition, Lori!! Best of luck and let me know how they turn out!!
just made the first three, i think the eggs i have are a bit bigger than your’s.
they turned out… almost perfect from what i can see…
i tried doing it last night but i was so tired i forgot the citrus acid… whoops
Also, do you know what kind of paint would be best to use on these? (not for this current project, but for a future project)
Forgetting the citric acid isn’t the end of the world. The fact that you packed them well is the biggest hurdle. To answer your question about “paint” I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean food coloring? Refer to the materials photo in the post where I show which kind of food coloring I used. Good luck!
Hello, I made these yesterday following all directions, eggs came out looking great but when tested in a bowl of warm water today, they did not fizz, at all. I got a small stream of bubbles from the center area and that was it. Any idea what went wrong?
Brianne, did you notice that when you were mixing things that there was some fizzing? I wonder if there’s a chance they got a little too wet during the mixing stage and didn’t have enough citric acid left to make them fizz when you dropped them in the water?
Do you think these would work with baby oil instead of fragrance oil?
The fragrance oil just adds some fragrance. It can be omitted if you don’t want the bath bombs scented. I’m not sure what kind of effect baby oil would have on the recipe.
Oh, I do want them scented. I just happen to love the scent of Burt’s Bees baby oil. 😀 So I was curious if it would work.
Ashley, I think it will work. The only concern I would have is that the baby oil may make prevent the ingredients from sticking together like they should but I don’t know for sure. I say try it and see what happens. Please report back! Thank you!
Do you have to grease up the plastic eggs so it doesn’t stick the mixture? I am making these with 48 girl scouts at our sleepover and really don’t want mess it up.
Hi Betty! No, you don’t have to spray or “grease” the eggs. You could always do a “practice run” at home on your own before the sleepover to make sure you have the process down. Good luck!