On a Friday evening, we took a relaxing night in, talking to Darine the lady who creates little balls of magic with ‘Bath bombs and beyond.’ With her playful touch, the balls are customized into doughnuts, farm animals or any shapes that crosses her mind, transforming a routine bath moment into a fun ritual.
Put this colorful little ball in your bath water, sit back, and watch it fizz, and dissolve into abstract multicolored shapes. Observe the pink twirl around, the blue navigate closer to you, or the yellow blurry lines float away, and let them lead you into a meditative state. Then focus on the smell and let the fragrant lavender, green tea, or lemongrass bring you some serenity. ‘When you come out of your bath’ Darine adds, ‘your skin is soft as silk.’ Each ingredient in those little colored balls plays a role, the soothing almond oil, moisturizing castor oil or nourishing shea butter. But ‘the magic lies in the essential oils’ Darine tells us. She has fun finding shapes; football, watermelon, sea creatures, gingerbread cookies or hearts, which she usually brings back from Canada twice a year, but whenever a new idea crosses her mind for which a mold doesn’t exist, she finds a way to make it happen. She shows us a birthday cake bathbomb she is preparing for an order, now getting ready to add colors to it, pink, purple, white for the whipped cream and a cherry on top, ‘the handpaint makes it unique.’ Darine also makes sure her colours are FDA approved, water soluble dyes. Sprinkling relaxing Himalayan salt on pastel pink cupcakes, or hiding mini capsules inside egg shaped green gradiant bathbombs, that dissolve in water, from which a small dinosaur comes out, delighting little ones, the entrepreneur is never short of fun ideas that make bathtime sweeter. She loves customizing her little balls of wellbeing for an event, adding mini unicorn toys inside rainbow clouds bathbombs for a kids party, or earrings in a lemonade or coconut drink shaped bathbomb for a bachelorette.
When Darine would travel on holidays with her husband, she realized she was just as attracted by the main tourist attractions, as by bathbomb boutiques, the smell, the colors, the promise of a relaxing moment, it became a true passion of hers. She was working in the corporate world after having studied business, with a masters in human resources, and left during the covid crisis. In 2021 she took the decision to pursue her passion, ‘it took some time between deciding and starting’ she tells us. She wanted to come up with her own recipe, using natural ingredients, to get to that fizzing effect she enjoyed so much. She researched the topic, took classes, and went through many trial and error, tweaking the recipe, for about a year and a half, until one day it all clicked. She opened her online page on Instagram, and ‘things came together,’ she still recalls with a twinkle in her eyes, still grateful for the doors that opened in front of her, when she first started her new venture, connecting her to the right people. The entrepreneur stays true to her passion for bathbombs, innovating constantly with fresh ideas, such as her pedicure bombs in which she adds ‘a couple of ingredients, Epsom salt and Himalayan salt, that help remove dead skin, relax the nerves, after our feet carry us all daylong.’ With many of her customers telling her they also want the bubbling effect usually found in bath bubbles, she has just come up with a way to create bathbombs with that extra oomph that makes the bath foamy as well. She shows us her latest creation; a duck swimming in a blue pond, which is made of a cream that ‘makes tons of bubbles.’ Her daughter who is with us on the call exclaims ‘I want this one!’ Her bathboombs are available online and at By The Roots at ABC Dbayeh, and between motherhood, and expanding her sweet venture, Darine dedicates all the time she can to crafting these colorful bits of bliss.
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