DIY: Lavender Toilet Bombs-Freshen Your Bathroom with Just 3 Ingredients

DIY Lavender Toilet Bombs: Freshen Your Bathroom with Just 3 Ingredients

First we start by finding the ingredients we needed, we already had a large range of essential oils to use, bicarbonate of soda we use for cooking so we jut needed to source some citric acid granules which was easier than expected as it is widely sold and pretty cheap. As we are using so little in these the 1kg tub I got will last us a few years.

We decided to add some lavender that we had from when it was pruned, but not necessary, but it does look pretty sitting in the jar and smells extra amazing when opened.

How Did We Do It?

Clayton has been making these for the last 3yrs. He is Non verbal & Autistic. He likes to do things how he likes and even though telling him to put a small amount of lavender flowers in the bottom of the moulds he put in more than I would have done. But again this is not a necessary step we just had the lavender already. I would love to try these out with dried flowers though, would be so pretty in the glass jars.

We used some silicon moulds we already had, but you could use ice cube trays as they didn’t really need poking out or any help at all they just slipped out.

Work with what you’ve got, get creative…… collect up your yoghurt pots, cut the bottom of your fizzy drink cans, use old coffee filters or cupcake cases. Look around your home and see what you can come up with if you don’t have any silicon moulds.

What 3 Ingredients Do We Use?

1. Bicarbonate of Soda – 1 cup

2. Citric Acid – 1/4 cup

3. Water in a spray bottle that makes fine mist – 10-12 sprays

OPTIONAL: Essential Oils – 60 drops & Lavender Flowers

You will also need:

Silicone Mould or alternative

How Do We Do It?

NOTE: We added the Lavender to the moulds first, then added this mixture on top.

1. Measure & Mix together the 1 cup Bicarbonate of Soda and 1/4 cup citric acid
2. OPTIONAL: Add 60 drops of your chosen essential oils and mix.
3. Fill a spray bottle with water and spray twice into your mixture & Mix

4. Repeat until around 10-12 sprays of water and mix after every 2 sprays*

* Avoid spraying too much or it will start to fizz. Think of it as slightly dampening the mixture rather than making it wet.

5. Press the mixture into your silicone mould firmly pressing down into all the edges.

6. Leave for 12hrs or overnight to dry out and harden

7. Turn the silicone mould over and carefully pop out your toilet bombs, or use a spoon.

8. Pop in an airtight container

This covers Permaculture Design principle No7. Produce no waste. We aim to reduce as much as we can to produce no waste from what we are consuming. Starting by reducing.

Top 5 Reasons To Try This

1. They absorb odours and help to keep toilets cleaner between cleanings.

2. No need to worry about toxic fumes or skin-burning chemicals when you use them.

3. The Fizziness in the toilet bombs mean less scrubbing because the fizzy action powers the ingredients to help dissolve stains.

4. Less of a hassle getting out cleaning products when you can just pop one in before bed every night.

5. As always the best reason. It’s helping to cut down on plastic & chemicals in your house and these really only take 10mins to make.

VIDEO REEL: PROCESS

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Katrina & Clayton and family live in East Ayrshire and share their daily life in the garden on instagram. They practice permaculture principles in the garden, reducing & repurposing waste whenever they can. Katrina shows how home educating in nature has helped Clayton thrive. 

Clayton Completed The 2 Grow and Learn Courses with the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society. He is Autistic, Non Verbal & has been Home Educated since 2018. Katrina & Peter hold their PDC & PDC PRO Permaculture Design Course from Oregon State University. 

They featured on BBC Beechgrove Gardens Ep23 2022 and returned in 2023 for an update, Katrina & Clayton are also columnists for ScotlandGrows Magazine, Guest Blog for Caledonian Horticulture as well as working with Gardeners’ World Magazine and many other brands. 

They are also Author of the new Children’s Book Series: Clayton’s Garden Journey: Stories of Autism and Gardening. Topics on Growing, Harvesting, Sowing & Composting and 108 Page Weather and Seasons Weekly Gardening Record Book available on Amazon and Kindle. Listen in on their Guest Podcasts to learn more about them.

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