Bubble Nexus Bath Bomb Molds

People ask if I'm making these again. The answer is no way! It's expensive and time consuming but it's also a lot of fun. So I'm giving you all of it to do it yourself!

Thanks to a lot of research and testing, I finally found a recipe that got these to work exactly how I wanted! It took awhile but I found HowtoBathBombs.com, all the other recipes I found just fizzled and sunk. Here's my slightly altered recipe with easy to follow instructions. 

Bubble Nexus Bath Bomb Recipe

2 Cups: Citric Acid 4 Cups: Baking Soda 1 Cup: SLSA 1½ tbsp: Lavender oil 

2 tbsp: Wilton orange icing color 1 tbsp: Wilton yellow icing color ⅓ Cup: Cold Water ¼ tsp: Coco Betaine 

+ Orange/yellow mica powder or baby oil for coating the inside of the mold. Black and purple mica powder and Isopropyl Alcohol for painting.

• Step #1: Using a sieve, mix dry ingredients in a large bowl in this order: citric acid, baking soda, SLSA, lavender oil.
• Step #2: Mix wet ingredients in a small bowl. Put in your icing color and a little bit of water and mix until it dissolves. Add more water if needed. You do not want it to be clumpy. Mix thoroughly. Then add the rest of the water and coco betaine.
• Step #3: In a medium bowl, put in a cup of dry mix and about a tbsp of wet mix and quickly mix together thoroughly until everything is a nice rich orange color. 
• Step #4: Squeeze a clump in your hand to see if it retains it's shape. You don't want it to be too hard, it needs to be just barely holding together. If it's too wet, you can either add some more of your dry mix or just gentle stir it while it dries a little bit. This process is actually more forgiving than the recipes say. 
• Step #5: Lightly coat the inside of the mold with some orange or yellow mica powder or brush a little baby oil. Then gently but firmly pack the mold and make sure you can shut the lid. Squeeze and hold for 5-10 seconds. (The harder you pack, the better it looks but the harder it is to remove from mold. You're gonna have to practice this step.)
• Step #6: Get it out of the mold. Squeeze the mold a bit and then tap the mold with handle of a spatula. If you absolutely can't get it out in one piece, it might be too wet. Go back to step 4, you've got this
• Step #7: Let it dry/cure for 48 hours in a cool dry place.
• Step #8 (Optional): If you want to paint yours like mine, mix a little black and purple mica powder with isopropyl alcohol and brush it on the claws. 

So as you can see, this is a lot of money and even more work to do! And if you do it yourself, you don't get the cool surprises that my bath bombs come with. So if this all sounds fun to you, show me what you make!