One of the easiest ways to make a homemade bubble bath is with castile soap. This is a versatile ingredient and can be used for so many things! It is excellent in foaming hand soap and is super concentrated, so a little goes a long way.
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Many conventional bubble baths have chemical bubbling agents added to make those crazy giant bubbles. In my experience, a naturally made bubble bath will NOT be as bubbly as the bubble bath of your childhood.
Once you've gathered the homemade bubble bath ingredients, all you have to do is pour and mix them together. The water and castile soap will mix well, but the glycerin may settle at the bottom of your container. That's normal! I was serious when I told you that this is easy.
Everyone can agree that taking a bath is wonderful for both the body and the mind. While taking a shower might get the job done, a soak in the tub actually feels like a treat. And a bubble bath? That is next-level awesomeness!
You can skip the expensive shampoos and body washes and add a few teaspoons of SLSa to your next bath for an inexpensive and sudsy good time. Or mix it with water and skin-soothing add-ins for a more traditional bubble bath.
Add the remaining ingredients. If you would like to make your own custom bubble bath with ingredients you have on hand, add them now. Stir the mixture gently to blend everything together without creating any bubbles.
Instead of using a store-bought shampoo or body wash, you can create your own bubble bath by mixing SLSa powder with water. A little goes a long way, so one package of SLSa can be used for many, many baths.
As I mentioned earlier, bubbles are created when water molecules stretch with the help of a surfactant and trap air inside. So to make an extra bubbly bath, you need to force more air into the soapy water molecules. Here are some tips for getting a ton of bubbles out of your next bath.
Pour the liquid soap, glycerin and essential oils into a bowl and gently mix the liquids together, but not too vigorously or they will foam up. Pour the homemade bubble bath mixture into a glass storage container.
Optional ingredients: You can make a moisturizing bubble bath by adding a few tablespoons of almond oil, fractionated coconut oil, or honey to the bubble bath mixture. All of these additions are great for dry skin and will not change the integrity of the homemade bubble bath.
Many of the bath bubbles in the stores contain ingredients like parabens, artificial fragrances, dyes, and detergents that are very irritating to the skin, eyes, nose, and lungs. I only use essential oils to scent my home and beauty products now, and have gotten to the point where I can spot artificial fragrances a mile away and they often make me feel nauseous and give me a headache!
I made the recipe exactly as stated and even added a bit more to the tub and I did not get ANY suds! I added it directly to the stream of water as I filled and no bubbles. I next got my shower wand and turned it on high thinking some agitation may help to no avail. I was so hoping it would work! My 5 year old is really missing bubble baths!
We are big bubble bath fans at my house, and the girls were more than willing to test my recipes. Even Fozzy got in on it. I left the tub to fill and came back to find him covered in bubbles and the floor sopping wet. And then we had a very wet and soapy chase through the house!
A standard-sized tub requires about 3/4 cup of bubble bath for optimal suds. So I like to make it in a large bottle so it will last a while. I got these 16 oz glass bottles from Amazon.
I really like Plant Therapy essential oils and they have a Kid Safe line. I like to use their Sniffle Stopper blend in bubble bath when the kids are sick, and I also like their Germ Destroyer blend.
Decyl glucoside is similar to its lauryl glucoside cousin, due to its mildness and ability to thicken your bubble bath. It also produces long-lasting foaming bubbles and has some good solubilizing power. This will help the essential oil blend with your water-based ingredients.
All of the DIY bubble bath for kids that I tried out below used two sources of fragrance: kid-safe essential oils (i.e. lavender) or natural extracts (i.e. vanilla). For the most part, I just skipped the steps that called for adding a few drops of essential oil to the solution.
Unfortunately, before the bath even finished running (and when the water was still quite shallow), the bubbles stopped forming. I ended up with one end of the bath with some small bubbles, and the other end just really milky looking.
The results were pretty much the same as above, with half the bath forming bubbles, but not enough to really have a bubble bath, and them popping very quickly to leave milky looking bath water that, to be fair, does really moisturize!
In all honesty, I was a bit grossed out by the concept. I opted to use liquid pasteurized egg whites because I was freaked out about making something for my daughter that could contain salmonella. Especially since she puts her bath toys in with the bubbles, etc.
Many of the ingredients in the bubble solution (oils in particular) can make the bath tup slippery! As such, make sure you have all your bathtub safety precautions in place, such as a non-slip mat and a spout cover to prevent against head bumps.
This unscented bubble bath is great for kids with super sensitive skin or eczema. This is a gentle and very safe product that is ranked a "1" on the Skin Deep website, meaning it has the lowest possible toxin rating. It is also the least expensive bubble bath I list in this post at $0.32 per ounce.
The Carina bubble bath is extra gentle and tear-free formula with certified organic plant, vegetable, flower and tree extracts. I personally love that one of the ingredients is apple cider vinegar ?
If may run against your intuition, but commercial bubble bath preparations are designed to foam at concentrations far lower than would be useful as detergents and regardless of water minerals, and therefore are less defatting to skin than an amount of real soap (such as castile) that would make a comparable amount of suds.
And so, I went online and looked for a recipe for homemade bubble bath. I found a great one here! It was super easy to make, cost VERY little and was so much fun to do. I even found this empty maple syrup bottle to put it in! (I knew I was saving that bottle for a good reason!) Then I made a fun label with HIS name on it which he thought was the greatest! (even better than Buzz!)
Thanks for the idea. I ran out of bubble bath and my 6 yr old daughter really wanted to take one to night. This was super easy to make she even did it herself. She has been in the bath for 30 min and still has a ton of bubbles. This will also be a cheap fun project to do with her friends.
I,know right! I sat in the bathtub for 1 hour and still had bubbles! Cloudy ones but I,think cloudy ones a re more fun! Its a great treat for teens adults and children even my two year old son loves them! :)
Wow I read the recipe and immeadiatly took a bath seriously it really works! And it makes so many bubbles! Next time I give.my.son a bath I will make him these bubbles because he is a fan of bubbles! :)
Does anyone know of any non scented shampoos out there that I may do this with? As a holistic therapist, this recipe would be a perfect carrier for my clients who like herbal soaks and bubble baths, but hate the residue that steeping themselves in straight up herbs leave on the skin. I have a method of retaining the herbal properties and scent, but I need an unscented shampoo to keep this good stuff smelling nice.
I have always used California baby shampoo and body wash for my sons who are 2 and 5 and both have sensitive skin. There is even a senisitive skin version. It worked really well with this bubble bath recipe, and the bubbles lasted for a long time. The boys loved it.
this is a great idea. money is tight right now and it occured to me today that i could always make things for the holidays. my question is would it hurt to add food coloring to the bubble bath? and if i were to make some for say my 1 year old niece would it be ok?
The difference in bubbles using this same recipe without and then with the Coco Glucoside was ABSOLUTELY IMMENSE! So I am sure that you could use this to make liquid bubble bath very well too with some glycerine and essential oils.
I LOVE bubble baths, and they are my unqualified first choice for bathing. It sounds to me like you are in need of a bathroom remodel that would includes a nice, new bathtub. As to scents, my all-time favorite is Rice Flower and Shea by Bath and Body Works. I curse them all to suffer a lifetime of bathing in tiny bathtubs for discontinuing it. Thanks for your excellent article.
I love the idea of adding essential oils, so the bubble bath smells lovely! I also love your labels! I think swapping out commercial cleaners and beauty products with healthier homemade versions is a great idea, and doing it as you run out of something is a great way to save money ?
For the most part, bubble baths are thick gel-like liquids. But you could try a different format if you want a hybrid. This DIY bubble bath idea merges bath salts with bubble bath. Mix your favorite body wash into Epsom salt and olive oil. To flavor your gorgeous granulated gems, split a chamomile teabag and a peppermint teabag, mixing them thoroughly into the salts.
You know who makes a mean DIY bubble bath? Skin doctors and plastic surgeons. As medically trained beauticians, they know what ingredients offer the best care without causing damage or over-drying your skin. This recipe has distilled water, glycerine (you can swap this for coconut oil if you prefer), liquid castile soap, and your preferred essential oil.
Want to get your DIY bubble bath tutorial from a robot? This recipe is pretty good, but the audio is auto-generated from AI software so it sounds stilted. You can mute it if that bothers you. The video has a dozen variants you can experiment with. Otherwise, mix lavender and eucalyptus essential oils with Castile and glycerine. Or try the one with baby oil and honey. 2ff7e9595c
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