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KEEPING IT CLEAN
Jazmine Bonnett, owner of Blossom
Bathhouse, works at a brisk pace. If she
doesn’t quickly finish her bubble bath
bars, the ingredients harden and become
unsalvageable. A batch takes 30 minutes
to make and yields about 20 individual
scoops, which sell for $8.95 each. During
a high-production time, like before
Mother’s Day, Bonnett will work 13-hour
days. In one bowl, she measures and
mixes dry ingredients, including baking
soda, a foaming agent and yellow mica
for coloring. She preps a second bowl in
the same way, but uses green mica. She
separately mixes the wet ingredients,
such as cocoa butter, before blending
everything together and kneading the
mixture. “The mixer does a good job,
but it’s nothing like your hands,” Bonnett
says. “I like to feel the textures and know
how wet it is and what it’s going to do if I
don’t act fast.” She layers the two colors
(pictured, bottom left), and uses an ice-
cream scoop to place them onto a cookie
sheet to cure for 3-4 days (pictured,
bottom right). Bonnett and her sister,
Antonia, launched their Oak Park-based
business in 2016, and now sell locally at
farmers markets, pop-up events, craft
fairs and boutiques. Blossom Bathhouse
was named a top-five finalist in the
Downtown Sacramento Partnership 2018
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