Poly 80 Bath Bomb

Adding more of poly80 and less of water or witch hazel will decrease a risk of your bath bomb mix activating too early.

Poly 80 bath bomb. Which means you will get more foam and less fizzing. Depending on how much poly 80 you put it may interfere with fizzing a little bit. In this video i am comparing bath bomb made with polysorbate 80 and without. Great wetting agent for bath bombs.

I didn t have any problem with the dye staining but now my bath bombs fizz very slowly. If you only want to add some essential oils to your bath bomb then you are ok to go with. Most bath bomb makers add carrier oils to their bath bombs therefore they use polysorbate 80. It basically creates a happy incorporated and symbiotic relationship between water based ingredients and oil based ingredients.

I just added powdered dye and poly 80 to my bath bomb recipe to create cool colors. Allows oil to bind with water. In bath bombs add up to 6 as a wetting agent instead of witch hazel or carrier oil to make amazing bombs that fizz longer. Polysorbate 80 is a natural emulsifier that is sourced from vegetable matter.

Poly 20 is often used to emulsify lighter oils such as fragrance or essential oils into water. Polysorbate 80 is an emulsifier a wetting agent a dispersing agent and a natural solubilizer. I added pol 80 in equal parts to the oils but my sodium bicarbonate to citric acid ration remained unchanged 2 1. Since it is a liquid it works well as a wetting agent.

As you can see bath bomb without polysorbate 80 does not dissolve oils into wat. Usage in blooming bath oil.