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Has anyone tried soap queen tv's easy bath fizzies? 2 cups baking soda, 1 cup citric acid, colour, fragrance and a lil witch hazel to help binding. I'm interested in trying them, but the recipe is sooo much simpler than most of the ones I've found!

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

I have done the bath bomb cupcakes with that recipe. The recipe worked out pretty well for the bottoms, but my frosting was runny and didn't pipe up as well as hers.

I have made those basic ones before...they work fine as a first-time-making-fizzies sort of thing, but I quickly found that adding some other ingredients made them more interesting (and made them last longer in the tub). I add a little olive oil and a bit of cocoa butter so that it's a more moisturizing bath, and I also add a little polysorbate, which allows oils and water to mix together. What that means for the bath is that you don't have fragrance oil, (and olive oil and cocoa butter if you add those) floating around on the top of the water as you're sitting there. It also means there's a lot less of a ring around the tub afterwards! The polysorbate also slows down the fizzing, which is helpful because when I do just the basic recipe the fizzie only lasts like 30 seconds. Hope this helps

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Steph
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Einstein

That helps a lot! Thanks!

I have a question about the "frosting" soap queen uses for her fizzy cupcakes; does it melt into the water quickly? And doesn't the sugar leave your skin and the tub a little sticky? I LOVE the look of the cupcakes, and plan to make some eventually =D

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

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Happy Soaping!

Anne-Marie
blog: www.soap-queen.blogspot.com
supplies: www.brambleberry.com

=O Ohhh the Soap Queen responded to my post!!! Thankee =D

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

I've not been able to find SLS from Canadian vendors, But I can find SLSa (Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate). is that something I can use in place of the SLS in the frosting recipe?

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Excellent! Thanks Irena!

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist