The basics of bath fizzies are simple – an alkali, an acid, and an oil. You can use plain fragrance oil, but if you’re adding essential oils, you need a lighter carrier oil to dilute it. DIY bath fizzies may also have starch to bulk them up. For this recipe, the ingredients are citric acid, baking soda, and corn starch.
But you can use any shape you like, from Halloween to Christmas themes. Try putting a little oil in the molds to help the fizzies pop out easier. As for ingredients, you want baking soda, citric acid, Epsom salt, and a suitable essential oil. You can use grapeseed oil as a carrier and glycerine as a binding agent. 9. Floating Fizzing DIY Bath Bombs
This recipe is the latter. It mixes citric acid, baking soda, Epsom salt, corn starch, a moisturizing carrier oil (rosehip, almond, olive, etc.), and a mood-matching essential oil. 10. DIY Sherbet Surprise Bath Fizzies
If you’re nuts about Meyer lemons (and everyone that tries one is!), use their juice in place of citric acid for Crissy’s DIY bath fizzies. You can layer the recipe with roasted lemon rind floaties and lemon essential oil. This recipe uses both Meyer lemon rind and citric acid so you won’t use the actual juice.