Bath bombs look like baking soda and feel like chemistry: the citric acid costs four times the soda, humidity decides whether a batch sets or crumbles, and every bomb needs its shrink wrap before it meets a market's damp morning. MadeKeeper costs the press batch to the bomb and keeps the batch notes that turn good luck into repeatable process.
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Say you press a batch of 20 bombs:
At $7 each you keep $5.77 a bomb before fees — and when citric acid jumps a dollar a pound, the next batch reprices itself and you'll know whether $7 still holds before the market does.
Bath bombs are cosmetics on the paperwork side — MadeKeeper keeps the batch, ingredient, and lot records that INCI labeling and MoCRA-era record-keeping lean on, in the app instead of a binder.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
Because it's roughly a third of the batch at four times the soda's price — the classic case of one ingredient carrying the cost. MadeKeeper shows the split plainly, which is also your case for buying citric in the 25-lb box.
Log the loss, or jar the crumbles as bath dust at a seconds price. Both keep your true yield in the books — and a pattern of crumbly batches next to the humidity notes is how the problem finally gets solved.
They're materials like any other — the ring, the color core, the surprise toy logs on the batch and rides the per-bomb cost. Kids' surprise bombs also deserve a look at small-parts safety notes; the judgment stays yours.
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