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Shower Steamers with Menthol Crystals

You will love the way your shower is transformed into a spa like experience when you use these shower steamers with menthol crystals.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time10 minutes
Total Time20 minutes
Keyword: Bath Essentials, shower steamer
Servings: 2 ounces
Cost: $5

Equipment

  • Scale
  • Mixing bowl
  • Silicone mold
  • Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol in Spray bottle

Ingredients

  • 2.48 ounces | 62% Baking Soda
  • 1.28 ounce | 32% Citric Acid
  • 0.08 ounce | 2% Kaolin Clay
  • 0.08 ounce | 2% Menthol Crystals
  • 0.08 ounce | 2% Fragrance Oil
  • Isopropyl Alcohol (in a spray bottle)

Instructions

  • Weight all your ingredients.

Menthol Crystals

  • Add menthol crystals into the fragrance oil.
  • Keep mixing until the menthol crystals dissolve.
  • Set fragrance mixture aside for now.

Dry Ingredients

  • Put your baking soda, citric acid and kaolin clay into a large bowl and mix well.
    Dry ingredients for shower steamer
  • Add the fragrance oil and menthol crystal mixture to the dry ingredients.
    adding fragrance oil
  • Mix well. Don't worry, the fragrance and menthol will not cause any fizzing.
    mixing fragrance oil
  • Add mica powder and mix again - Normally at this point, I will just use my hands to mix it.
    adding mica powder
  • Spray the mixture with rubbing alcohol and then mix well.
    spray shower steamer with alcohol.
  • Check the consistency, you want to be able to drop a ball of the mixture back into the bowl without it breaking apart.
    If you have made bath bombs before, this is the same consistency you are going for.
    checking shower steamer consistency
  • Once you have the desired consistency, start putting the mixture into your mold. Be sure to pack it in the mold tightly.
    packing shower steamer into mold
  • Allow to dry for a few hours, then remove from the mold.
    unmolding shower steamers
  • Wait 24 hours and enjoy!