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worth staying in.

Bath bombs, bubble bars, scrubs and serums — the recipes that made Bath Addicts a maker favorite, refreshed for 2026. Start with the base recipe, then get weird with it.

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The recipes

Three pastel pink and orange bath bombs on a white tray beside a bowl of powder
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Customizable DIY Bath Bomb Recipe

The base recipe everything else builds on — 3 five-ounce bombs, endlessly customizable.
Two pale blue bath bombs beside bowls of cream of tartar and cornstarch
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Bath Bomb Recipe Without Citric Acid

Out of citric acid, or reacting to it? Cream of tartar makes a gentler bomb that still fizzes. Here is the swap and what changes.
A cracked crumbling bath bomb next to a smooth perfectly formed one
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Bath Bomb Troubleshooting: The Top 5 Questions, Answered

Cracking, crumbling, not floating, not spinning — the fixes for the five most common failures.
Bath bomb ingredients laid out in small white bowls on marble
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The Bath Bomb Ingredient Guide

What every ingredient does, what's optional, and what to substitute — the reference page.
A stack of striped pink and purple solid bubble bars
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Lush-Inspired Bubble Bar Recipe & Tutorial

Solid bubble bars you crumble under running water — the DIY answer to the shop classic.
Yellow sunflower shaped bubble bars on a white plate
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Sunflower Bubble Bar Recipe

Cheerful yellow bubble bars shaped like sunflowers.
A grey green brain shaped bath bomb on a white dish
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Zombie Brain Bath Bomb Tutorial

A Halloween showpiece — grey-green brains that fizz an eerie swirl.
A green tree shaped bath bomb topped with piped white frosting
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Christmas Tree Bath Bombs with Bubble Frosting

Piped 'frosting' on a tree-shaped bomb — sugar-free, all fizz.
Translucent green apple shaped jelly soaps with a glossy surface
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Caramel Apple Jelly Soap Recipe

Wobbly jelly soap that looks — and smells — like a caramel apple.
Cream bath bombs topped with a glossy cocoa butter drizzle
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Cocoa Butter Drizzle for Bath Bombs

The finishing touch — a skin-softening drizzle that makes bombs look bakery-made.
Coffee ground body scrub in a glass jar with a wooden spoon
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DIY Coffee Body Scrub

Used grounds, sugar, and oil — the simplest recipe on the site.
Black charcoal face mask paste in a white bowl with an applicator brush
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DIY Charcoal Face Peel

Activated charcoal peel-off mask, three ingredients.
An amber glass dropper bottle of golden facial oil beside dried lavender
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Anti-Aging Face Serum

A simple oil-blend serum with rosehip and frankincense.

Stuck? Start here.

Cracking, crumbling, sinking, refusing to spin — every bath bomb failure has a cause, and it's usually one of five. The troubleshooting guide and the full ingredient reference cover almost everything that goes wrong.

Troubleshooting guide Ingredient guide

The shop returns

Bath Addicts is coming back as a maker of small-batch bath products — bombs, bubble bars, jelly soap and scrubs, made the way these recipes teach. For the nights you'd rather not mix a bowl yourself.

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