Favorite children's fun - soap bubbles, they are so encouraging and adults, and children, and in the winter, and in the summer, and on the street, and at home. But they are not always at hand, and not everywhere you can buy them, then why not make them yourself, it is not at all difficult.
Important tips: how to make soap bubbles at home
You can know a huge number of different recipes, carry a lot of different devices and everything else, but still make the most frequent and stupid mistakes. Here are some tips to avoid silly mistakes, and get only pleasure:
- To get good soap bubbles, rather than an ever-bursting substance, it should be remembered that for preparing the solution you should not use ordinary tap water from the tap. The best solution would be if you use boiled or distilled;
- In those cases when you decide to prepare soap bubbles according to the recipe with soap, be sure to consider the quality of the soap itself. It directly depends on the quality and composition of the finished mixture. When choosing, pay special attention to products with a minimal presence of additives; in addition, this requirement should be taken into account when choosing dishwashing detergents;
- At the stage of mixing the solution, carefully observe the dosage of both sugar and glycerin, because if you use too many of these components, this may make the subsequent process of blowing bubbles difficult;
- It should be remembered a very important rule when blowing bubbles, namely that it is best to blow them under wet conditions;
- It is also worth remembering one important advice that in order to blow better bubbles it is worth using a solution that, after cooking, was still half a day.
Following these tips, you will have great bubbles, and there will be no mistakes, and the most important thing is the enjoyment of this fun, and not the spoiled mood from the failure of the idea.
Glycerin soap bubbles recipes
There are probably many different recipes on the Internet and in various books, and your grandfather may be able to teach you to make a special solution from which you can blow out very good bubbles on a soap base. Let's look at a few of these recipes using a component such as glycerin.
- For the solution, about one third of the glass with dishwasher is taken and mixed with the addition of three large tablespoons of glycerin, to which two cups of boiled water are added. This mixture must be stirred, and then the whole mixture should be put in a refrigerator for a while, for about a day.
- You need to take two tenths of a liter of water at room temperature and dissolve in this volume of water, mixing, two large measuring spoons, you can use table, sugar. Then mix this solution with a half of a glass of detergent or shampoo.
- For this recipe, you need distilled water, namely, one hundred and fifty grams, if there is no distilled water, you can replace it with boiled water. Then add a tablespoon of sugar, about twenty-five grams of glycerin, plus fifty grams of shampoo or detergent.
Following these recipes, very carefully and extremely scrupulous about the proportions, you get an excellent solution, which after half a day can be used, and blow wonderful soap bubbles.
How to make soap bubbles without glycerin
In life, anything can happen, and sometimes it can happen that there is no glycerin at hand or it is so little that it is better to leave for more important household chores. But in spite of all this, I still want soap bubbles. In this case, you can resort to the recipes for making soap bubbles without glycerin.
Such recipes for the most part consist in the fact that instead of glycerin, sugar is used, or rather, a solution of water and sugar in certain proportions, everywhere differently. In such recipes, this is not the best use of ordinary water, and distilled or boiled. As in the case of glycerin, and with sugar, you should not overdo it.
The biggest plus of such bubbles, or rather methods of preparation, is that everyone has boiled water, shampoo and sugar at home, which, when mixed, produces excellent solutions for blowing. And such a solution can be made anywhere and easily, and simply control the density by the degree of sugar added to the solution.
Anyway, this is another way to make soap bubbles without the use of glycerin. Successful preparation and do not forget to give about twelve hours to infuse the solution after preparation.
Other recipes
As already mentioned, you can find a huge variety of different recipes for preparing a solution for soap bubbles at home. And here are some more recipes:
- Bubbles based on grated household soap - you will need ten glasses of water, one glass of household soap, grated, and a tablespoon of glycerin or a solution of sugar and water.
- Using liquid soap - mix one hundred milliliters of soap with twenty milliliters of distilled water, mix and add about ten drops of glycerin.
- The basis of the soapy liquid with the addition of sugar syrup - a tablespoon of concentrated sugar syrup - is mixed with two tablespoons of grated soap, four tablespoons of glycerin and it is all mixed in eight tablespoons of distilled water.
- A method of making huge bubbles - one hundred milliliters of liquid soap are mixed in three hundred milliliters of water with five to ten milliliters of glycerin and four tablespoons of sugar.
- Fun from laundry detergent - three glasses of hot water are poured into a container to two tablespoons of powder, to which twenty drops of ammonia are added.
- To get big bubbles, you need a liter of distilled water mixed with five to ten grams of gelatin. Then you should strain and get rid of excess water, mix all this and melt with sugar, and then add half a liter of dishwashing detergent, fifty grams of sugar and one-tenth glycerol.
These are some non-standard recipes of this children's fun, but they will bring you and your children on any holiday, and on a typical day, no less fun.
How to check the quality of soap bubbles
When you follow the recipe and, observing all the rules, make an unmistakable solution, then you will need to check the quality of the soap bubbles themselves. Naturally, having waited half a day, you should take a solution and check the bubbles. But how exactly?
We need to take the solution and blow out the bubble. A ball about thirty millimeters in diameter should exist without bursting for about thirty seconds.
If it burst earlier, then the solution may not have been quite correctly made or it was not sufficient time. But do not despair, try to do the same thing several times, because once is not an indicator.
Another way is to blow a bubble, quickly touch it with your finger, after having dipped it in solution, it should not burst. And if you burst, then you should also review the recipe or leave the solution for a while. Make a few more attempts before making hasty conclusions.
In fact, the way to check the solution is to simply start blowing, if the bubbles are blown out, then it is good, and if not, then the solution is bad and needs to be redone. And if we talk about bubbles, it depends on what recipe was taken as a basis and what was a soap bubble blown out.
What and how to blow?
Naturally, after preparing the solution, I want to try it out, namely, to blow out a soap bubble. What and how? It's very simple, you need a wand for blowing. You can buy a ready-made chopstick from a ready-made set, moreover, than a set more, they have a more varied assortment of blowing sticks. Some have special wands for blowing huge bubbles or creating sculptures from them.
But you can also make a wand yourself. Here are some examples:
- wand from a brush for cleaning tubes;
- any wire bent into a ring will do;
- bend the straw and secure with scotch tape, and the wand is ready.
If what to blow out clearly, then how, the question is open. Blowing technique is simple and does not depend on whether you purchased a ready-made solution or made it yourself.
- Dip the previously prepared stick into the solution. Removing from the solution inside the ring of the sticks a shaking film is formed, a membrane from a soap solution.
- Then bring the wand with the membrane inside to your mouth.
- Then lightly blow onto the membrane, pushing the ball out. If you want more bubbles, blow more intensely.
Question answer
People have a lot of questions.
Where to buy glycerin?
Chemical shops, pharmacies, online stores.
How much and how to store the solution?
It is best to store in the refrigerator, you should not take care of durability, the solution will end sooner.
What weather is best for blowing bubbles?
The summer weather is perfect, with a light breeze, so that your bubbles will colorfully shimmer in the sun and rise to the sky.
Why are such fun dangerous?
Naturally from the fact that there are a lot of harmful and dangerous substances in the solution, then for obvious reasons, namely, possible poisoning, you should not drink the solution. You also need to protect your eyes from bubbles, they can cause irritation and even blindness.
Interesting facts about soap bubbles
- The fun appeared far back in antiquity, this is confirmed by the drawings found by archaeologists, which depict children blowing bubbles;
- It has been proven in practice that a bubble can be blown out of one drop of a solution, which will be twenty centimeters in diameter, and a whole six-meter giant can be blown out of one milliliter;
- With the right content of the bubble can live a huge amount of time, it also depends on the solution itself, but most of all on the influence of the external environment. The longest bubble life was about three hundred years;
- In the near 1996, one guy set a world record by blowing a thirty meter soap bubble;
- Also very recently, namely, in 2007, a bubble was blown out, in which fifty people fit.
So, this children's fun is very easy to implement at home with your own hands literally from improvised means.
You can do with the use of glycerin, and you can use sugar and water.
The quality of the components directly affects the quality of the solution itself and, of course, soap bubbles. It is very simple to make a wand, you just need a comfortable ring, and the number and size of a bubble can depend on the intensity of the blowing. Delight your friends and children.
And finally - another option for making bubbles at home.
