How To Make Foaming Bath Truffle

I am absolutely in love with how these diy bath truffle look. They resemble perfect little scoops of ice cream. For me, there is nothing more relaxing than a hot bath at the end of a long day. I love the feeling of breaking them up under the running bath water. The bath is quickly filled with bubbles and a luxurious mixture of skin loving oils.

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Bubbling Bath Truffle Ingredients

Baking Soda and citric acid

The combination of the baking soda with citric acid create a bubbling effect when they come into contact with water. (Similar to bath bombs). The cool thing about when the reaction occurs is that the fragrance from the bath truffle is actually released into the air, making your whole bathroom smell delightful. 

Cream of Tartar 

SLSa (sodium lauryl sulfate)

Coconut Oil and Cocoa Butter

The butters help to give the bath truffles their shape. Since both of these butters are solid at room temperature, they help the shape hold after the truffles cool. Coconut oil and cocoa butter are also both emollients. Emollients soften and condition our skin.

Polysorbate 80 

Although we don’t use very much polysorbate 80, it does make a big impact in our product. It helps to emulsify the oils in our water, so the bath tub is not all greasy. It is also going to prevent the oil from sitting on the bottom of the tub when you drain it. 

Mica powder

Mica is a natural mineral with shiny flakes. These flakes are ground into a powder, creating mica powder. I chose to use mica powder to color the truffles because I don’t necessarily want my bath water (and tub) colored.

Feel free to use a different colorant if you want your bath water to be a vibrant color. Check out this bubble bar post for a color that dyes the water too. 

Biodegradable glitter

I love the little shimmer the glitter adds to these truffles. Biodegrade glitter really takes them up a level. If you are going to use glitter, make sure it is biodegradable. The last thing you want is to be sending little bits of plastic down your drain.

Cookie Scoop

When you get a cookie scoop, make sure it has a release trigger. If you have a scoop without the release, it will not work for this project, because it is the release trigger that makes these look so good.

Bath Truffle Texture

Texture is key when making these. Unlike bath bombs that have a wet sand type of consistency, they are going to feel wetter. The mix should feel more like playdough than anything. It should be moldable and able to hold its form.

If you find that your mixture is a little too dry, melt a little bit of cocoa butter and add it a tablespoon at a time until you get to your desired texture.

Forming the bath truffles

When you are scooping your mixture, firmly pack it into the scoop. Then wipe off the edges of the scoop. When you release the bath truffle, place the scoop barely off the freezer paper when releasing. If you release it too high, you run the risk of the truffle breaking on you.

Print Recipe

Bath Truffle

Learn how to make a stunning bath truffle right at home. Just crumble under the facet to get large bubbles and release the mango fragrance.

20 minutes mins

Total Time20 minutes mins

Keyword: Bubble Bath

Servings: 3 scoops

Cost: $5

Equipment

• Scale
• Double boiler
• Face mask
• Cookie scoop
• Freezer paper

Ingredients

• 3.23 ounce | 43% Baking soda
• 1.05 ounce | 14% Citric acid
• 0.45 ounce | 6% Cream of tartar
• 1.28 ounce | 17% SLSa
• .68 ounce | 9% Coconut oil
• 0.45 ounce | 6% Cocoa butter
• 0.08 ounce | 1% Polysorbate 80
• 0.30 ounce | 4% Mango fragrance oil
• Orange mica powder
• Biodegradable glitter

Instructions

• Weigh out all ingredients.
  
• Put the cocoa butter and coconut oil in a heat safe container. Place on a double boiler until melted.
• Put the baking soda, citric acid, cream of tartar and SLSa in a bowl. *When working with SLSa, be sure to wear a face mask as the fine powder can be an irritant
• After your oils have melted, pour them into the dry mixture from step 3. Mix well
• Add polysorbate 80 and fragrance oil, then mix well
• Separate into two separate containers.
• Add orange mica powder to one of the containers and mix well.
• Line your work area with freezer paper.
• Stack the mixture with orange mix, then white, then orange and so on.
• Place the stacked mixture back into your bowl.
• Scoop the bath truffles onto the freezer paper. Be sure to pack the mixture into the scoop. I like to go back and forth between the two colors to create a layered effect.
• Sprinkle biodegradable glitter on the top of the bubble truffles.
• Allow to dry overnight.
• Package and enjoy!