Cold-Relief Shower Bombs

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Cold-Relief Shower Bombs

To make your own cold-relief shower bombs, you need the following:

1 cup of baking soda
2 Tbsp of salt
Essential oils of choice (Like a combination of eucalyptus and peppermint)
1/3 cup of lemon juice
Water as needed
Muffin tin (a mini muffin tin would make the best looking end product)

How to Make a Shower Bomb

1.) Using a glass mixing bowl, stir baking soda and salt with a fork.
2.) Add the lemon juice a little at a time. It will get fizzy when the acid reacts with the baking soda.
3.) Stir again with the fork.
4.) Add water a few tablespoons-full at a time until you have a consistency that looks like biscuit dough – moist and crumbly, like in the photo below. It has to be moist enough that it will stick together.
5.) Lightly oil your muffin tin or cookie sheet so your dough doesn’t stick. You can use a less expensive vegetable oil for this, but you could also use coconut or almond oil if you want to.
6.) Roll the dough (about a tablespoon at a time) in your hands, then add the ball of dough to your muffin tin or cookie sheet.
6.) If you want, you can go all Martha Stewart and try to make them look perfect, pressing them down into the cups of the muffin tin or using a cookie cutter
7.) Bake them for 10-20 minutes at 350 degrees. When they come out, they’ll look sort of like cookies. Cookies are better than bombs, right?
8.) Gently remove them from the muffin tin with a spoon and place them on a plate to cool.
9.) While they’re cooling, add 3 drops of Eucalyptus oil and 1 drop of Peppermint oil to each shower bomb.
10.) Leave them out overnight to cool and harden.

Place the dried shower bombs in a canning jar. The longer they sit in the jar, the stronger and more soothing they’ll become.
If they are crumbly, don’t worry – they’ll still work just fine. Try adding a bit more liquid the next time you make them. In fact, if they crumble too much, use a fork to turn them into a powder and scoop out about 2 tbsp. into a little dish to place in your steamy shower.

How to Use a Eucalyptus Shower Bomb

To use a shower bomb, simply toss it onto the floor of your nice hot shower. The steam will create a fragrant vapor that will clear your sinuses and provide some natural relief for congestions. If you’d prefer a bath, you can add this to your bathwater instead – it’s just baking soda, salt, and oils, after all.