I’ve been making homemade toilet bombs for years now and seeing as I’ve just made a batch today, I thought I’d share how I make them.

I love homemade cleaning recipes and I think these little toilet bombs were actually my first little DIY cleaning project. They worked really well so I often make a batch to keep in the main bathroom – especially since I discovered that Wilko do boxes of citric acid and baking soda quite cheaply! I used to buy Citric Acid from Amazon which usually cost more than double the boxes I can get in Wilko.

There’s a couple of reasons I like these little homemade toilet bombs so much – (a) they’re just brilliant for a quick toilet refresh between cleans, (b) I love to leave the lid open slightly so they smell amazing sat in their little jar in the bathroom and (c) you’d never catch one of my kids cleaning the toilet but ask them to pop one of these in the toilet and they’re all over it thanks to the fact that they fizz away as they do their job.

Nothing to do with homemade toilet bombs but how amazingly cute are my little flamingo cups? They’re little stacking flamingos and there’s one that measures one cup, one that does half a cup and one for a quarter of a cup. I got mine from Tesco but you can find them on Amazon too. They make me smile when I see them sitting on my kitchen shelf.

Homemade Toilet Bombs

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 10 minutes

Additional Time: 6 hours 5 seconds

Total Time: 6 hours 15 minutes 5 seconds

Materials

1 cup {230g} baking soda or bicarbonate of soda
1/2 cup {125g} citric acid
20-30 drops essential oils (I'm a fan of a peppermint and eucalyptus combo)

Tools

A bowl to mix in
A spray bottle filled with water
Moulds to set your toilet bombs in (silicone are amazing)

Instructions

Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl gently.
Slowly mix in the essential oils, a couple of drops at a time making sure you stir your mix every time.
Using a spray bottle filled with water start to add a little moisture to your mix. You need to be super careful here as you don't need much at all because too much will make the reaction between the ingredients start. I spray 2-3 time and then give it a mix straight away and then go again IF necessary. You just need enough in there to make the mix stay together in the mould and it's better to use less than more because if it doesn't stick you can just crumble your mix and start again.
You'll know when it's ready as you can push some of the mix against the side of the bowl with the back of your spoon and it’s able to hold its form and not fall apart.
Press the mixture into your silicone mould making sure that you push it into the mould as firmly as you can and smoothing out the top with the back of your spoon.
Leave to set for a minimum of 5-6 hours but overnight would be better.
Store in a glass jar in the bathroom and just pop one in the toilet between cleans. You'll see it fizz up while it's doing all the hard work.

The quantities in the mix do make a fair amount of tablets but it does depend on the size of the silicone moulds that you use. I use an ice cube mould which has space for 10 and then I just use the first mould that I grab out of the cupboard for the rest of the mix usually. I went all fancy today as I knew I was going to be taking photos to share with you on here so for the second mould, I went with a swirly sweet mould that I’ve never even used for sweets as I have no idea what would work in it.

The fancy ones did turn out lovely but they’re actually not that practical as I have a little jar that I put the bombs in and they really take up too much space. Next time, I’ll stick to the ice cube tray shapes.

Just pop 1 or 2 of these tablets into your toilet on a night before you go to bed and they’ll keep your toilet fresh. I do still use bleach once a week when I give the toilets a proper clean but I’d need to use it much more often without these to use in between.

As ever, when you’re using essential oils, make sure you read this post before you get started!

(Added after writing the post: I knew I’d shared how to make homemade toilet bombs before but I couldn’t find them when I searched so presumed I’d just written about them as part of a weekly five frugal things post. Turns out I had written about them before but I called them toilet fizzers rather than toilet bombs so they obviously weren’t going to come up when I search for toilet bombs, were they? It’s written now though so I’m going to publish it anyway – this one is way better! 😂😂😂 )

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