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The Christmas Penguin bubble bar is so adorable; I love it so much. And with a fresh sort of citrus-y scent, it makes a beautiful LUSH bath. All of the LUSH Christmas stuff is so pretty this year. I love everything so much so I wanted to try to re-create some of the Christmas products. This is a DIY The Christmas Penguin Bubble Bar recipe. I think my recreation turned out good and it smells amazing!
Here’s everything you’ll need to make The Christmas Penguin bubble bar:
Christmas Penguin Ingredients
- 1 cup SLSA
- 1 cup baking soda
- 1/3 cup corn starch
- 1/3 cup cream of tartar
- 1/3 cup glycerine
- 1 tablespoon olive oil or other oil
- 1 tbsp. water
- Lemon Oil, Orange Oil, and Bergamot Oil
- Food coloring
- parchment paper
- mixing bowls
- surgical mask
- gloves
^ With this recipe, you should be able to make approximately 4-5 LUSH-sized Christmas Penguins.
Separate wet and dry ingredients
As always, put on your surgical mask to sift all of the dry ingredients together. The SLSA is crazy powdery; even if you pour it slowly, clouds of powder can come wafting up in your face. Be sure to do this in a well-ventilated room. Measure out all of your wet ingredients and combine in a separate bowl. For The Christmas Penguin bubble bar, I used 3-5 strong shakes of the essential oils to get a strong LUSH-like fragrance.
Combine wet & dry ingredients
Put on your gloves and combine the wet and dry ingredients. The texture is weird and kind of crumbly but keep mixing. It will stick together when pressed firmly together.
Add Coloring
In order to get The Christmas Penguin right, I split up my dough to get all of the different colors. You’ll need half of the bubble bar mixture to stay white, so just set that aside. Most of the rest of the mix will be blue, and then just a tiny bit will be yellow and even less will be orange for the beak.
Create your Christmas Penguin
Layer each color to build the bubble bar
Once all of your colors are mixed, lay out some parchment paper on a clean work surface. Begin by shaping the penguin’s body with just the white bubble bar. Use a second, smaller sheet of parchment paper to help shape a little mound shape. Press the bubble bar together firmly.
Press layers together firmly with parchment paper
Then add on the blue bubble bar over the top and back of the penguin and use parchment paper to pack it all tightly together. Don’t just rely on your hands; the second piece of parchment paper will help you shape it all together. Once you’ve got your blue and white mound shape situated, gently dust the yellow bubble bar over the penguin’s middle and press in with parchment paper.
Finally, take a pencil or a needle and carve out two little eyes and a small divot for the beak. Gently press in the orange bubble bar as a beak.
Set aside to harden & then enjoy!
The fresh-scented citrus oil and bergamot oil smell so good; This penguin is so cute! Let the bubble bar dry for between 24 and 72 hours until it’s hardened. Once it’s dry, crumble under your hot running bath water for tons of bubbles!
Make some of my other LUSH-Inspired Christmas bubble bars and bath bombs HERE!
