A few months back, our friend Janice Cox shared a luscious bath truffle recipe from her book, Beautiful Flowers. After making it several times, I embarked on a journey to create other fun variations from the base recipe. Historically, I have loved making bath bombs, and they make exceptional gifts, but they can also be finicky, even for the well-trained bath bomber. Bath truffles, on the other hand, are a bit easier to work with and contain more rich and hydrating oils and butters. Like bath bombs, bath truffles still fizz and can be customized with different scents, but they hold their shape easier.

For holiday gifts this year, I decided to whip up a “chocolate chip mint” bath truffle recipe that is fresh and uplifting. These little balls of skin-loving goodness are especially fun when made to look like little ice cream scoops, and the lucky recipients will be really impressed by your skills!

A note to the wise, a little goes a long way with mint essential oils, and while it may not smell very strong in a solid form, it will smell and feel stronger in the bath. That is to say, you may not want to take creative liberty on this particular recipe unless you have fully tested your alterations.

Happy soaking!

Chocolate Chip Mint Bath Truffle Recipe

Makes about  20 medium-sized bath truffles. 

Ingredients 

• 4 cups baking soda
• 1 cup non-GMO citric acid powder
• 1 heaping Tbsp. organic peppermint leaf powder
• 1 /4 cup cocoa butter
• 1 /4 cup organic avocado oil
• 1 /2 cup organic liquid castile soap
• 1 Tbsp.organic vegetable glycerin 
• 15 drops organic peppermint essential oil or organic spearmint essential oil
• 7 drops organic cocoa absolute
• 2 Tbsp. organic cacao shells (optional)

Directions

1. Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
2. In a double boiler, gently melt cocoa butter and avocado oil until fully melted.
3. Remove from heat and stir in liquid castile soap, vegetable glycerin, peppermint essential oil, and cocoa absolute.
4. Slowly add the oil mixture to the mixing bowl of dried ingredients while constantly stirring.
5. Once the mixture is the consistency of damp sand and you can clump it together in your hand, stop adding liquid. Do not oversaturate. Note that you will likely not use the entire amount of the liquid ingredients, but it's better to have a little extra than to need more!
6. Your mixture will expand in size; this is normal
7. Using a cookie scoop or spoon, measure out balls about 2 inches in diameter and place onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Alternatively, press the dough into small silicone molds such as ice cube trays.
8. Sprinkle on optional cacao shells to mimic “chocolate chips”.
9. Let the bath truffles harden for a day or two. They will be fully firm.

Pro Tips

• If you want your truffles to look like cute ice cream scoops, you need to use a cookie dough scooper with a mechanical arm. That is what gives it that rough “ice cream” edge.
• If you add too much liquid, your truffles will turn flat and will not fizz much in the tub. You want to use the least amount of liquid possible, just so that the mixture sticks together in a ball.
• I used avocado oil in this recipe for several reasons—it has a rich green hue and is very hydrating to the skin. If you don’t mind the color not being green and would prefer to use a different oil, you can swap it for olive oil or another carrier oil of your choice.

To Use: Add one or two bath truffles to your bath. Alternatively, use one bath truffle for foot and hand soaks.

Looking for Janice Cox's Original Recipe from her book, Beautiful Flowers?

You can find it here!

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