Review: Contains Only 3 Recipes & Full of Incorrect Spellings and Poor Grammar
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
Making bath bombs is tricky, I have done it so I know. The helpful tips that help the process are not here, and I feel all bath bomb books owe it to the reader to tell such tips. For that reason, I removed 1 star.There are only three recipes which is surprisingly low. For example the author says to use essential oils, she could have added more recipes changing only the essential oil blends and could have offered over 20 or 30 recipes. Due to the low number of recipes I removed another star.The spelling mistakes drove me crazy. "bough" for "bought" and a wrong word when the author meant "sensitive" for skin. Colloquialisms such as "available out there" should have been edited to just "available". For this reason I removed another star.The last issue is the author fails to explain the whys and the impact of her recommendations. For example by not including SLSA, in an effort to reduce skin irritation for some people, which I understand, she does not inform the reader that the choice will result in zero bubbles in the bubble bath. Yes, they will fizz as they dissolve thanks to the citric acid but it won't be a bubble bath. She also fails to explain that the food coloring (not natural and not organic) she says to use may result in staining your bathtub! Lastly the use of glitter (which is not natural and not organic) and the oils may leave a messy ring in the tub which requires laborious cleaning soon after the bath (thereby taking away some of the effects of the stress reducing bath!People who make these bath bombs to give away as gifts or to sell need to know more of the why's and the pros and cons of their ingredients and the impact their choices will have on the users.