Lavender Love, Rose Love and Chocolate Love

Today I made bath pearls … that's the small things you give in your bathing water and it starts to bubble and dyes the water.
I found different reciped on the internet and tried out 3 of them. The first one has the best texture but is without colouring, the second one maybe would have the same texture but I added liquid food colouring so that may have influenced the process and the third is with chocolate, has a good texture but doesn't bubble.

The main ingredients are soda (sodium bicarbonate), citric acid, starch, shea butter, cocoa butter, almond oil and any scented oil. Sometimes you don't need starch but use milk powder or instead of the butters you use coconut oil, instead of almond oil you use olive oil. There are many possibilities to diversify the recipe. The problem with colouring is that the paste does react with the liquid food colouring but powdered one won't work if it's not soluble in oil-based products.

This may sound complicated but actually it's really easy and nearly boring (especially compared to making soaps). The fun part is that you can buy most things around the corner and don't need to handle any dangerous chemicals. For me it the hardest part was to get food colouring – can you believe that 2 weeks before christmas it's impossible to get food colouring!

My favourite recipe was:

100 g Sodium Bicarbonate
50 g Citric acid
25 g Starch
15 g Cocoa butter
5 g Shea butter
10 g Almond Oil (or any other)
Optional:
A few drops of essential oil
Some petals or herbs
Food colouring

Mix soda, citric acid and starch in a bowl. Melt the butters on low temperature and add the almond oil and essential oil. Mix the dry ingredients with the oils and stir. It should feel like wet sand. Then put the paste in smalls forms, the filled forms in the fridge and wait and hour or two (or longer).
Get the cool paste out of the forms and let them dry.