Want to improve your shower? Did you want to take a bath, but ain’t nobody got time for that… Try these diy shower steamers and fill your bathroom with your favorite fragrance. They are a take on a bath bomb with the fizziness, but as they slowly fizz they fill your shower with delightful scents. Place one in a corner of the shower where it is not getting directly hit with water and enjoy.
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Let’s take a look at our ingredients:
Baking Soda & Citric Acid
The combination of the baking soda and citric acid is what makes this diy shower steamer fizz like a bath bomb when it gets wet. Remember, in grade school when you would make the baking soda and vinegar volcano’s? Same idea, just with dry ingredients. Once water hits this shower steamer it begins to fizz
Kaolin Clay
Kaolin Clay is used to slow the release of the shower fizzy and it helps to harden it. The last thing that you want is for the shower steamer to fizz out right away, you want that fragrance to last the entire shower.
Witch Hazel
Witch Hazel is used in a spray bottle to wet the mixture. Unlike water, it evaporates quicker and is not going to ruin the fizziness. If you would like this can be substituted out with rubbing alcohol.
Just make sure that you use a spray bottle. I was able to find them at the dollar tree. It cam with one spray bottle and two small containers that are perfect for purse lotions.
Fragrance
Feel free to choose your favorite fragrance! You can also use mint if you have a cold to relieve congestion, it will be like having vicks in the shower.
Mold
As a mold, I used a cupcake pan from the dollar tree. It is the perfect size and only $1! You can also use a silicone mold or an ice cube tray.
DIY Shower Steamers
Equipment
- Scale
- Mixing bowl
- Spray bottle
- Mold or Cupcake Pan
Ingredients
- 5.12 ounce 64% Baking Soda
- 2.56 ounce 32% Citric Acid
- 0.16 ounce 2% Kaolin Clay
- 0.16 ounce 2% Fragrance Oil
- Witch Hazel Small amount in a spray bottle
- Mica Powder Optional
Instructions
- Weigh out all your ingredients. If your baking soda is clumpy either run it through a sifter or break apart the clumps by hand.
- Mix the baking soda and citric acid together.
- Add Kaolin clay and mica (if you want colored streamers), then mix.
- Pour the fragrance over the mixture and mix fully.
- Mist the mixture with witch hazel and mix. You do this until you get it to the constancy where if you drop it from a foot above it does not break. (Similar to how you do for bath bombs).
- Make heaping piles in your mold and smoosh it down.
- Allow to dry for 24-48 hours prior to unmolding.
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