DIY and Crafts: The Best Shower Steamers Recipe to Energize Your Morning

The Best Shower Steamers Recipe to Energize Your Morning

Inside: This homemade shower steamers recipe is an awesome way to add some energizing aromatherapy to your morning using essential oils.

A DIY aromatherapy shower steamers recipe to energize your mornings. These make a great homemade gift!

Ugh, mornings. I wish being an early riser came naturally to me, but it just doesn’t. My mornings are better than they used to be after taking the steps outlined in my post on Becoming a Morning Person, but the truth is some days I’m still draggin’ you-know-what and struggle to get energized.

One thing that helps wake me up is a hot shower in the mornings. I start running through my to-do list and planning out my day while taking a steamy shower.

Another way that helps me to get energized is diffusing essential oils. One of my favorite energizing blends is citrus and peppermint. The combination wakes me right up and gets me moving.

So why not combine the two?

Shower steamers are little discs, cubes, or tablets that go in the bottom of your shower. When they melt, they release the essential oil aroma into the air. The best part about shower steamers—sometimes called shower bombs or shower melts—is that they are so simple to make.

Citric Acid or no?

You will find some shower bomb recipes without citric acid and some with it. I chose to leave it out of this recipe. Citric acid combined with baking soda will make a fizzy, effervescent reaction. I love the fizziness in a bath bomb, but wanted to have a simple recipe without citric acid for the shower.

If you’re looking for a recipe with citric acid, check out my tutorials for Peppermint Bath Bombs and Bath Bombs for Kids.

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Shower Steamers Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup corn starch

2-5 TBSP water

5 drops citrus essential oil {I used Citrus Bliss, but orange would work just as well}

3 drops peppermint essential oil

2 drops food coloring {optional}

Mold

Directions

Add corn starch to a glass bowl.

Add 2 tablespoons of water to a glass bowl and mix well. Gradually add a splash of water and mix until you get the consistency of wet sand. The amount of water you will need can vary depending on things like room temperature and humidity. I ended up needing 5 tablespoons of water for this batch.

Tip: if you use too little water, your shower steamers may end up crumbly when they dry. If this happens, spray them with a little more water and let them dry. If you use too much water, the mix will have a silly putty texture {see picture below}. These will still work, but may melt easier at room temperature and would store best in the refrigerator or freezer.

Add 2 drops of food coloring of your choice {optional} and essential oil and mix well. Since these are citrus scented, I used a drop of yellow and a drop of red to give an orange tint.

I have never had an issue with food coloring staining my tub. The food coloring is only for looks, so you can leave it out if you are worried.

Put your mixture in the mold of your choice. I used a heart mold, but you can also use mini muffin tins or even ice-cube trays.

Put the mold in the freezer for about an hour to set and then your shower steamers are ready to use.

How to use shower steamers

Put your shower steamer in the basin or ledge of your tub. You want the shower steamer to be able to get wet, but not be directly under your water source. As water splashes on it, it will melt down and release the essential oil scent into the air.

Store your shower steamers in an airtight container. As mentioned above, if yours start to get soft at room temperature, store them in the refrigerator or freezer.