Chocolate Bath Melts - The chocolate that’s good for your thighs

Bath melts are fruit or nut butter melts for soaking in the tub. The added ingredients will leave your skin soft, detoxified and smelling terrific.This particular batch I made for valentine's presents, hence the chocolate scent and red foil wrap. You can scent them with any essential oil or fragrance, and do them in any mold, even an ice cube tray.
This is a kid safe project (as you can see by my assistant Igor), and the results are kid safe. And what parent doesn't love things that will get your kids in the tub?

Step 1: Gather ingredients

This is a pretty simple and quick project. You'll need the following:

• 1/2 cup Shea butter, cocoa butter, mango butter (any solid at room temp fruit or nut butter).For this project I used Shea butter.

*4 tbsp Citric Acid
*6 tbsp Oatmeal (any kind is fine.)
*1/2 cup baking soda (Sodium bicarbonate /sodium hydrogen carbonate / NaHCO3)
*1 teaspoon chocolate fragrance oil. (Or any fragrance oil...essential oils may require much less, depending on the EO used.)
*Something to use as a mold. This batch is about perfect for filling a standard ice cube tray.

Comments

[im3733]

Where did you find the chocolate fragrance oil? I can't find any anywhere. I can find just about any scent except chocolate. Any ideas on how to get the scent without the oil?

Also, do you know where I could find (non-lotion) chocolate butter, as I'm assuming the lotion will not hold it's form well enough for this

[rchsflag21]

E-mail Ms. Millie she can get you the chocolate Fragrance oil and her products are not watered down (like hobby lobby's are) I can use 3 - 4 drops of hers where I have to use 1/2 a bottle of the stuff from hobby lobby for my items. 1 container at hobby lobby is $4 and I can only get 2 uses out of it and her small oil size I can get 10-15 uses out of it. she is GREAT!!!

http://www.milliescentedrocks.com/home.html

[vanmankline]

What is the purpose of the citric acid? Would ascorbic acid also work?

[SoapyHollow]

The fizzing reaction that happens when you drop a bath bomb in the water is because of the chemical reaction between a weak acid (such as citric acid) and a bicarbonate base.

Ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, has a chemical make-up of C₆H₈O₆.
Citric Acid  has one more oxygen atom than ascorbic acid; its formula is C₆H₈O₇. 

Theoretically; it should work to swap them out...theoretically.  However, I've never tried it, so I can't guarantee it.  But chemical theory suggests that it should.

[hpert]

I was wondering if I could use solid coconut oil? and could I put in unsweetened cocoa powder to make it darker or would that work?

[Batness]

You could use coconut oil to make bath melts; just remember that coconut oil melts at a lower temp that some of the other solid oils listed in this 'Ible. :D

I haven't tried this with cocoa powder; I imagine it would work just fine, but it will probably "settle" and not blend in well. Not sure though!

[evaramos89]

ha

[thesugaraddict]

Oh these look great! I can't wait to try to make some ^.^

[Axeldude]

I hope my mom will buy me some citric acid cuz I so want to make these! Oh and you have a beautiful boy ^_^

[superMacaroni]

But they look yummy, Mommy... Just a little bite?

[caitlinsdad]

Is this kid safe in the sense that they are edible? I don't think they would taste really good and some fragrance oils might be toxic if you leave these around for little kids unattended.

[SoapyHollow]

I put "Do Not Eat" labels on anything I make that smells or looks like food, mostly so people don't eat them. ;) No, they're not edible, but they wouldn't make anyone sick...the taste would make anyone spit it out before they could eat enough to make them sick. There's no sugar, and neither baking soda nor citric acid taste good. By federal law, no skin-safe fragrance oil manufactured in the United States is toxic in amounts under 1 oz per 50 pounds of body weight. But they taste awful, so it's an unlikely scenario. They're not toxic. They're not food, and I recommend against eating one...but they're not toxic. However, if you have a small one that is too young to understand the word "no", or who tends to purloin sweeties, then you probably don't want these lying around where they can get them.

[JosiePosie76]

Lol...  I made chocolate soaps last year for everyone in the office....  I put please don't eat me on every single solitary basket....  Some people thought it would be funny to take the warning off the baskets...  I had a lot of people coming up and telling me my candy tasted like soap...  I was like..umm..  That's because it IS soap... 

[caitlinsdad]

Thanks, bigger kids might do anything on a dare or use it for a mean prank.

[SoapyHollow]

Ah yes...the inherent cruelty of the child's practical joke. Lo these many years later, I'm still mad at my best friend's brother, who in 3rd grade tricked me into drinking jalapeno juice.

[jessyratfink]

These are awesome! I really have to try some of your bath recipes. They always look so good! :D

[scoochmaroo]

I agree! These look spectacular. It's definitely time to round up some SoapyHollow favorites and take a day to make them all up!

[SoapyHollow]

Whoo! We'll make it national bathe day! Everyone...in the tub! The world would be better if we could just get everyone to relax in the tub for a little while. Plus, it's hard to start a war when you're warm, naked, and smell good. :)

[peacenique]

No no!  It has to be INTERnational bath day, thank you very much!

[Iridium7]

 especially naked.

[computer_guy]

I agree.

[madmanmoe64]

Jan 8th is apparently National Bubble bath day

http://www.holidayinsights.com/other/bubblebathday.htm

[SoapyHollow]

Sweet!

[sophia.mazing]

I have been saying that for years! Hahaaa.

[SoapyHollow]

We could do a swap. :) You could make a robo-plushie for Igor, and I'll make you a basket of bath goodies. :)

[jessyratfink]

I would be totally into that once the semester winds down! :D

[gallimaufry13]

I'm totaly making these for my mother for valentines day. 5 stars!

[SoapyHollow]

Sweet! (erm...no pun intended) ;) Remember that they'll melt in your hand, so the wrapping part has to be pretty quick. If you don't have candy foils, saran wrap works too. :)

[gallimaufry13]

right right right. Thanks for the tip. again, awesome cool instructable

[SoapyHollow]

Hee. Thanks. :)

[gluless]

Oh wow!! I love these! I make soaps and bath salts for gifts and these will be so perfect to go in the baskets with them! Thank you for this great idea!!!

[SoapyHollow]

You're welcome. I'd love to see pics of yours!