Love Potion Heart Homemade Bath Bombs

These heart-shaped homemade bath bombs are scented with jasmine and sandalwood, and they make the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. You only need a few ingredients and a few minutes to make them.

The first time I ever heard of bath bombs was on our honeymoon, when our sightseeing took us into a luxurious bath shop. My husband treated me to all kinds of fancy bath products to take home — so sweet.

These heart-shaped homemade bath bombs are every bit as luxurious, but at a fraction of the cost!

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For Valentine’s Day, I decided to make some heart-shaped homemade bath bombs scented with Love Potion essential oil, a combination of jasmine and sandalwood.

Drop one of these in the bath for a luxurious soak that will leave your skin moisturized and fragrant.

Need more homemade bath and beauty ideas for Valentine’s Day? Sensual Pink Himalayan Salt Scrub, Chocolate Covered Strawberry Lip Balm and Tropical Orchid Solid Perfume are good choices.

Jump to:

• ❤️ Supplies for Heart Bath Bombs
• How to Make Homemade Bath Bombs
• 🎥 Video: How to Make Bath Bombs
• Variations
• 🍊Sweet Orange Bath Bombs
• Vanilla Scented Heart Bath Bombs
• 💭 Helpful Tips
• 🛁 More Homemade Bath & Beauty Products
• Simply Earth Essential Oil Recipe Box

❤️ Supplies for Heart Bath Bombs

To make your own Love Potion homemade bath bombs, you will need the following supplies.

• Baking Soda
• Citric Acid
• Fine Epsom Salts
• Jojoba oil or another carrier oil
• Love Potion essential oil or jasmine and sandalwood essential oils
• red food coloring
• witch hazel
• mesh strainer
• spray bottle
• silicone heart mold (Here’s another similar one)
• plastic gloves

Amp up the romance by making homemade heart-shaped, love potion bath bombs for Valentine’s Day.

How to Make Homemade Bath Bombs

🎥 Video: How to Make Bath Bombs

Variations

• Make larger bath bombs using these heart-shaped silicon cupcake baking cups.
• You can experiment with using different essential oils, carrier oils and melted butters (like cocoa butter or shea butter) in homemade bath bombs. Just keep the proporition of ingredients the same.
• Clays and mica powders can also be used to color bath bombs, in place of liquid food coloring. Try not to overdo it with the colorants, or they could temporarily stain your skin or your tub.

I also made heart bath bombs in sweet orange and vanilla scents. Follow the basic recipe above with these modifications:

🍊Sweet Orange Bath Bombs

• Substitute 10 drops of Sweet Orange essential oil for the Love Potion oil blend.
• Use a drop each of orange and yellow food coloring instead of red food coloring
• Use regular jojoba oil or try vanilla-infused oil to add more depth of fragrance.

For an even more luxurious experience, consider adding a few drops of vanilla absolute or vanilla oleoresin, in combination with the sweet orange essential oil.

Depending on the brand you use, this may leave brown flecks in your homemade bath bombs.

Vanilla Scented Heart Bath Bombs

• For the white vanilla-scented heart bath bombs, I substituted ½ Tablespoon of vanilla perfumed oil from The Body Shop for the jojoba oil. (The oil I used isn’t available anymore, but it is similar to this vanilla body oil and this vanilla massage oil.)
• There’s no need to add any more essential oil scent to these bath bombs. Just skip straight ahead to spritzing the mixture with witch hazel until it is the correct consistency.

💭 Helpful Tips

I had heard some craft-fail horror stories from others who have tried to make DIY bath bombs, so I put off trying it myself. But they’re really not hard to make at all.

The key to success when making bath bombs is making sure the mixture is the right consistency — not too wet and not too dry — before putting it into the molds.

After talking to some fellow crafters and reading up on the dos and don’ts of homemade bath bombs at Soap Queen, I gathered up my ingredients and mixed up a batch.

And then another, and another, and another… Love Potion, Sweet Orange, Vanilla bath bombs, shaped like hearts and snowflakes and Lego minifigures — we’ve gone a bit bath bomb crazy around here.

I might just be a tiny bit obsessed with homemade bath bombs now.

Preventing common problems when making bath bombs

• Make sure the dry ingredients are free of any clumps or lumps. Sift them through a fine strainer and stir to remove any lumps.
• After adding the carrier oil and essential oils, mix well to avoid any clumping.
• Don’t add too much liquid or food coloring to the mixture or the citric acid may start fizzing prematurely.
• Don’t add too much witch hazel at once. Add a spritz at a time, then check the consistency. The mixture should not crumble when squeezed. It should hold together when squeezed, but it should not be too wet.
• Don’t make bath bombs on a humid day or in a humid room.

If you run into any issues when making your bath bombs, definitely check out the Bath Bomb Questions & Answers post on Soap Queen. That really helped me anticipate and prevent any problems.

🛁 More Homemade Bath & Beauty Products

My kitchen has turned into a regular bath shop lately. In addition to these homemade bath bombs, I’ve also been making some heart-shaped sugar scrub soaps.

You may enjoy making these other homemade beauty products:

• Lemon Soap Bars
• Homemade Whipped Coconut Oil Lotion
• Citrus Mint Hand Salve
• Lotion Stick Winter Dry Skin Treatment
• Coffee Body Scrub

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