How to Make Soap Bubbles at Home - Compositions and Recipes

Childhood is unthinkable without sweets, soda, ice cream, carousel and, of course, soap bubbles. Enchanted is watching a little man, as from the end of a pipe or a wire ring breaks and flies, poured into the sun with all the colors of the rainbow a small miracle. How to make soap bubbles at home to please the children, have fun with them?

The history of the soap bubble

A soap bubble is a thin, multi-layered film filled with air, like a balloon.

The history of rainbow bubbles starts from the appearance of soap - it gave the name to the fun. It is said that during the excavation of Pompeii frescoes with a picture of soap balls were found. There is a mention of the Etruscan vase stored in the Louvre with a similar image on it. On ancient Chinese papyri found patterns of this fun. Sets for soap bubbles in Japan began to sell at the end of the XVII century.

In the XIX century, children played soapy water with foam after washing. There were a lot of small bubbles, and through the tube it was possible to blow out large specimens. At the very end of the XIX century in the UK was first released and sold a special composition for blowing soap bubbles. His advertisement was a picture of Mill "Bubbles" with a charming curly toddler on it.

Interesting fact
One of the most famous plot pictures of Jean Baptiste Chardin is called: "Soap Bubbles".The young man managed to blow a large bubble through a thin tube, the second boy looks with envy from beneath the elbow of an elder friend or brother, just as if he was burning to see a miracle bubble.

How to blow

An important role in an engaging lesson is played by a tool, that is, what a bubble is blown through. Depends on it the size, shape and, importantly, the number of soap bubbles. In the old days, clay tubules or hollow straws with a split end were used. Now on sale there are special pistols and plastic frames for blowing soap bubbles.

Bubbles can be blown through anything:

• cocktail tubes,
• hollow part of ballpoint pen,
• tubular pasta,
• wire frames of different shapes and sizes,
• cut plastic bottle( blowing into the neck).

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The magazine "Miss Purity" recommends: prepare both a solution and tubes with their children. Let this be part of the game and fun. Babies will not only be interesting, but also useful to work as a "locksmith" and "chemist".

Bubbles

Compositions for soap bubbles at home thanks to modern technology can be diversified to infinity, experiment with components, add color using dyes. To prepare such a solution is, without exaggeration, to combine science with art and entertainment.

The main element in the solution is two:

• water,
• foaming agent.

Their optimal ratio is the main secret of iridescent fun.

Excellent bubble:

• household or liquid soap,
• shampoo,
• dishwashing detergent.

Approximately 150 ml of foam substance is added to 1 liter of water. Having received the base solution, it should be checked, blown out. If it quickly burst, you need more soap. If not blown out, and on the edges of the frame or tube too many small bubbles - you need to add water.

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To play kids with soap bubbles as a basis, you can use a shampoo without tears so that bursting bubbles do not irritate the mucous membrane.

To strengthen and longevity of the soap bubble, sugar, glycerin or sugar syrup is added to the solution. Then the solution should hold the night in the refrigerator before use.

Secrets of the best recipes for soap bubbles prepared at home:

1. Soft, warm, clean water, ideally, distilled.
2. Toilet soap for mortar does not fit.
3. There should be very few fragrances, flavors in the detergent.
4. Store this solution in a sealed container.

In one of the chemical laboratories 6 recipes were tested - scientists were looking for ideal proportions. The best ratio was found: water and detergent - 10: 1, detergent and glycerin - 2: 1.This bubble lasted for 25 seconds and was impressive in size. Another proven recipe: water with a detergent - 3: 1, washing with glycerin - 1: 1.

The best recipes

Classic

Grate on a common grater a piece - 50 g - of laundry soap, pour into a container, pour 0,5 l of hot clean water( not boiling water), mix thoroughly until the soap dissolves completely. Add 2 tablespoons.glycerin, bought in a pharmacy.

For Toddlers

Mix 100 ml of children's shampoo "without tears" with a glass of warm melted or distilled water in a comfortable dish. Insist day. Add 1,5 tbsp.sugar, stir well.

From detergent for dishes

The easiest, convenient recipe. Detergent for dishes, preferably with glycerin, in an amount of 100 ml stir with two glasses of clean water, add 1 tablespoon of sugar.

From liquid soap or foam for baths

One part of boiled water is taken 3 parts of liquid soap or foam for baths. To foam settled, before use, the solution should be held in the refrigerator.

From detergent

If nothing else as a soapy component is present, you can make a solution from a detergent. But caution is needed when blowing bubbles: Powder and its solutions can trigger allergies and skin irritation. Take about 25 g of powder, a glass of hot water, 100 g of glycerin, a few drops of ammonia. Such a solution should stand for 48 hours, after percolation can be used.

For huge soap bubbles

In a large basin poured 0.6 liters of warm water, incomplete glass of detergent for dishes, 100 g of glycerin, a glass of sugar. After mixing, it is necessary that the compound is infused. In a few hours you can inflate or stretch with the help of a frame, for example, a gymnastic hoop, huge, long bubbles.

For the strongest bubbles, for the experiments

Boil a strong sugar syrup( 5: 1 - the ratio of sugar and water).Take 8 parts distillate 1 part syrup, 4 parts glycerin, 2 parts soap, sliced ​​or grated. To inflate such bubbles is more difficult than usual, but they keep for a long time without bursting.

Interesting experiments with soap bubbles

How many amazing beauty, fascinating and cognitive physical experiments can be done with soap bubbles! Some of them are described by Perelman in his "Entertaining Physics".To conduct them requires a quality soap solution. You can check it by blowing a bubble and trying to punch it. If it burst - continue to improve the solution, adding soap and glycerin to the optimum amount.

Each such experiment is a fascinating sight. Inside the soap bubble put figurines, flowers, various objects, a person or a group of people. It can be lowered to a flower, so that it is inside, filled with colorful smoke. Inside a large soap bubble, place a few small ones. They paint, build whole walls, juggle.

One of such amazing experiences dispelled the myth that a ball of soap film is short-lived. The experience consisted of his "preservation".The American teacher was able to save a soap bubble in a glass jar 340 days.

Physics, Chemistry and Soap Bubbles

In Perelman's "Entertaining Physics", a whole chapter is devoted to soap bubbles. And Charles Boyce, a physicist from Great Britain, published a book with this name. These scientists have easily proved that gay children's fun makes it possible to study in practice several serious physical laws. For example, the surface tension of the liquid, the laws of particle adhesion, the refraction of light rays. If the soap bubble has flown from a warm room to a cold one, it contracts, and if from a cold to a warm one it increases in size. This phenomenon is a demonstration of the physical law on the expansion and contraction of bodies under the action of temperatures.

Physicists believe that by simply observing the behavior of the soap bubble, one can make serious discoveries in different spheres. Chemists consider it their work, on which they also put experiments. Solutions, including colloidal ones, are an area for studying chemical science. Here's to you and children's entertainment!

The world has long been set records for blowing the longest or largest soap bubbles. There are cases of blowing a bubble 4 m long, and in New Zealand, although it is difficult to believe, a bubble was stretched at 32 m! By the way, from 1 ml of solution it is possible to get a soap bubble of 6-meter diameter.

Scientists are seriously engaged in the study of soap bubbles. Recently they were able to freeze, and then return to its original form. The soap bubble freezes if it is very gently placed on the snow.

Soap bubbles are amazing. A solution for them is quite easy to make at home, from what is now known and understandable. They are at the same time entertainment, pleasure, a bright spectacle and the object of close attention to science. They can not be disliked, they surprise and delight children and adults.