Bath Bomb Blogs: 26 Checked for Domain Rating and Activity (2026)

Bath bombs sit in an odd spot online. The category is full of small makers who write genuinely useful posts about citric acid ratios and mould release, and it is also full of thin affiliate pages that exist to rank for gift guides. Telling those apart from a search results page is close to impossible, which is a problem if you make moulds, fragrance oils or finished product and you want a blogger to write about you.

We audited the whole visible set instead. On 4 September 2026 we ran twelve searches covering bath bombs, soap making and handmade bath products, kept the sites that publish rather than only sell, and put each one through three checks: a live page load, a real Ahrefs domain rating, and a last published date pulled from the site's own feed. Twenty six sites came through. Below is every one of them.

How we checked, and what we refused to guess

The activity check is the part most lists get wrong. Reading a copyright year out of a footer tells you when the theme was last updated, not when anybody wrote anything. So we asked each site directly: first its WordPress posts API, then a sweep of the usual feed paths including the Shopify blog atom feed, and took the timestamp on the newest item returned.

Sixteen sites answered with a real date. Ten exposed no feed we could reach, and those are marked unknown in the table rather than being quietly sorted to the bottom as if they were dead. Three sites returned a 403 to our page load while still serving a feed, which is a firewall doing its job and nothing more, so their homepage fields are blank while their dates stand.

Domain ratings come from the Ahrefs API on the same day. They move, and a number pulled in September is not a number you should still be quoting next spring.

All 26 sites, with domain rating and last post

Sorted by domain rating, strongest first, because in this niche DR and usefulness pull in opposite directions often enough to be worth seeing side by side.

Who is still publishing

Nine of the sixteen sites that gave a date had posted within 90 days of the audit, and three of those nine had posted within 48 hours of us looking. Seven were older, two of them by more than two years: modernsoapmaking.com stopped in September 2023 and bathbombmachine.com in May 2024.

The pattern worth noticing is who the active ones are. Six of the nine current sites sell something physical, either ingredients, equipment or finished bath products, and they publish because content sells stock. The purely editorial blogs in this category are the ones that have gone quiet. That inverts the usual advice about avoiding commercial sites in outreach: here the commercial sites are the ones with a person answering email.

It also changes what you are asking for. A supplier blog will happily write about a mould or a fragrance because it is adjacent to what they sell, but they will not link to a competitor. Work out which side of that line you are on before you write, which is the same qualification step covered in link outreach.

The DR spread, and why the top of it is misleading

Median Ahrefs DR across the 26 is 28. The full run is 1.1, 1.3, 1.8, 2.8, 2.9, 3.2, 3.4, 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 28, 28, 35, 37, 37, 41, 45, 46, 53, 56, 60, 60, 61 and 77.

Fourteen of the 26 sit below DR 30. Four reach DR 60 or above, and none of those four is a bath specialist: A Beautiful Mess at DR 77 is a general lifestyle publisher, LearningHerbs at DR 61 is a herbal medicine site, Crafty Base at DR 60 is inventory software, and Playdough to Plato at DR 60 is a kids activity blog that happened to publish one bath fizz project.

Strip those four out and the specialists top out at DR 56. The people who actually write about bath bombs week after week are almost all under DR 45, and the single most focused site in the set, bathfizzandfoam.com, sits at DR 15. If you sort this market by authority you will end up pitching four sites that barely cover your category and ignoring the twenty two that do.

What page one actually looks like

On the day we checked, the ten results for this search carried domain ratings of 82, 1.3, 15, 11, 28, 46, 0.6, 0.1, 18 and 41. The only strong domain on the page is a Feedspot aggregator page in position one, and everything under it is a maker or a supplier, four of them below DR 2.

That shape is unusual and it is the reason this page exists. Google is not demanding authority for this query, it is demanding that somebody actually list bath bomb blogs, and the incumbent doing that is an automated directory entry. Two sites on page one, bathbombs.com at DR 0.1 and thebathtime.com at DR 0.6, are effectively brand new and still holding slots.

Fast replies are usually robots, and we can prove it

Every outreach guide tells you to measure reply rate. Almost none of them tell you that a large slice of what arrives is not a person, and that the machine share is concentrated in exactly the window that feels most encouraging.

Our outreach database holds 3,809 inbound messages. Matching subject lines against the standard auto-acknowledgement signatures, things like "Request received", "Your ticket has been created" and "Thanks for contacting us", flags 475 of them, or 12.5%, as machine generated before a human has read anything.

Narrowing to first replies against a cold send, we measured 1,007 of them and split by how quickly they arrived:

So a reply inside four hours is close to a coin flip on whether a person sent it, while a reply that takes longer is human roughly five times in six. If you judge a campaign on day one you are mostly measuring helpdesk software. Small maker blogs of the kind listed above rarely run a ticketing system at all, which is one quiet advantage of pitching them: what comes back is a person.

The practical rule we work to is that the first four hours are noise, and the honest read on a send starts the following day. That is also why our follow-up templates are spaced in days rather than hours.

How to pitch a maker

Nineteen of the 26 homepages carry a contact, work-with-me or advertise link in the markup. The remaining seven route through an about page or a shop enquiry form. Across the set, eleven run WordPress, eight run Shopify, two run Squarespace and the rest did not identify a platform, and that Shopify share matters: it means you are often writing to a shop owner who checks email between packing orders, not to an editor.

None of the 26 publishes a write-for-us page. There is no queue, no submission form and no editorial calendar to slot into, so a guest post pitch written for a publisher will read as spam here. What works instead is short, specific and about their existing content: name the post, say what you would add, and make it easy to say yes. Our guest post pitch template covers the structure and subject lines for outreach covers the part that decides whether it gets opened at all.

Two more things specific to this niche. Write to the person by name where the site shows one, because a maker blog is somebody's kitchen table and "Dear Sir or Madam" is instantly disqualifying. And keep the first email under a hundred words, since the recipient is reading it on a phone.

What to actually offer

The mistake we see most often in craft verticals is offering a written article to somebody who enjoys writing. That is not a favour. What these sites are short of is product to photograph, technical answers they can quote, and reasons to update an old post.

If you sell finished bath products, send samples and offer photography rights. If you sell moulds, presses, fragrance oils or packaging, offer to answer a formulation question on the record, because a supplier quote makes an existing tutorial better without the author having to write anything new. If you sell software to makers, the honest route is sponsorship rather than editorial, and it should be labelled as such.

None of that requires paying for links, and it is worth being clear about the difference. Nothing in this set published a rate card, though several carry an advertise link, and the gap between a paid slot and an earned mention is one we treat as a hard line. The argument in full is in what happens when you buy backlinks, and the earned version is described in editorial link building.

The workflow we run for customers is the same one described here: find the sites in a niche, check which are actually alive, read what they publish, then write one email per site that could not have been sent to anybody else. MentionAgent does that continuously from your own domain, and if you would rather not run it yourself, outsourced link building explains the managed version. For neighbouring lists built the same way, see Waldorf blogs and travel blogs that accept guest posts, and for the retail angle, ecommerce guest posting sites. If you would rather send product than pitches, influencer outreach email templates covers the seeding version, and blogger outreach tools compares what keeps a list like this current.

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