Citric acid or any of the sodium salts of citric acid can be irritating to the skin in the same way that lemon juice or lime juice can be irritating. I’ve never had any issues, and I’ve done thousands of bath bombs. However, if it concerns you, or if you have any irritation, you can always wear food safe gloves.

Citric acid (C6H8O7) and sodium citrate (C6H5Na3O7) are different compounds.

Wikipedia says, “Contact with dry citric acid or with concentrated solutions can result in skin and eye irritation, so protective clothing should be worn when handling these materials.[citation needed]”
~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid

I found my citric acid to have clumps in which I had to pestle out. Didn’t think I needed to be careful with touching it with my bare hands.

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Acute Oral LD50 (ingestion)
Eye Irritation: Slightly irritating
Skin Irritation: Non-irritant
Mutagenicity: Not mutagenic
Carcinogenicity: Not carcinogenic
Reproduction: Not teratogenic
NOTE: GRAS – (generally recognized as safe for human consumption)

Thus, unless you were pretending to be Keith Richards on a bender in the 70’s, and sniffing lines of it…you’re in no danger.

(sodium bicarbonate) + (citric acid) –> (sodium citrate) + (carbon dioxide) + (water)

does sniffing the exploding fizz cause any inhalation of the produced sodium citrate? i read it is toxic to lungs and mucous membranes.

thanks!

Can your fabric softener be used in washing machines with a fabric softener dispenser? I’m always multi-tasking while doing the laundry so I never know when the final rinse is happening. If not, would one of those containers you fill up with softener and throw in the wash work? Many thanks and duly bookmarked!

That said; the vanilla extract may or may not work…I’ve had batches that worked, and batches that just smelled awful after a few weeks. If you want to do a vanilla, the best way I’ve found to do it is to either use a good madagascar vanilla bourbon, or to take some 1/2 cup vodka and scrape the interior of a vanilla bean into it, then soak the interior and the exterior in the vanilla for a few days/weeks. Strain and use.

Assuming the rose water is just rose water without additives like sugars and whatnot, it should work.

Using either of those, note that you may need to add a little bit more of your carrier oil…like any recipe, when you make changes, you may have to tweak it a bit to get it to do exactly what you want.

Have fun, and come back and tell me (show pics!) of how it worked! Feel free to ping me with questions or problems!