How to make soap bubbles with your own hands: multi-colored, persistent, giant

The history of the creation of bubbles is associated with the invention of soap. In ancient times, children knew how to inflate balls from a soap solution. This is confirmed by wall paintings found in archaeological sites, and thematic works of art. And the painting “Soap Bubbles”, written by artist John Millet, was so successfully used to advertise soap by a British company that in the 19th century, English soap makers began to produce a special liquid for blowing bubbles. Since then, the popularity of the “soap” discovery has only grown.

From the beginning of the 20th century, foaming liquid was sold everywhere and at a very affordable price. Today, a bottle with soap bubbles is one of the most popular and best-selling children's toys. Many parents want to please children with bright unusual balls at first request. Why not? This dream is quite feasible, because it is not at all difficult to make a solution for soap bubbles on your own.

Main components and how to blow

There are only four traditional components of the solution: soap, water, sugar and glycerin. The main thing is to properly prepare liquid for soap bubbles, observing technology and proportions. Then the blown balls will be light, large and “long-playing”.

"Five" of tips on how to simply make soap bubbles.

1. Water. It affects the quality of the foam. Use cooled boiled water, but the best option is distilled, melt or rain.
2. Soap base. Pick up soap or any detergent with a neutral aroma and a predominance of natural ingredients.
3. Additional ingredients. For the stability of the balls, supplement the solution with glycerin or sugar.
4. The density of the solution. Correct the saturation of the composition: a dense solution is difficult to blow, and a weak one - on the contrary, it will be easy to blow even the smallest, but the quality of the bubbles will also be weak.
5. Cooling a soapy solution. It is recommended that you keep the solution to completely settle the foam in the refrigerator.

And here are the options for blowing:

• straw or hollow grass;
• a tube for a cocktail;
• long pasta of any thickness;
• confectionery figured forms for baking cookies;
• student pen case;
• thick paper rolled up;
• ordinary plastic bottle with a cut bottom;
• beater for carpets;
• wire twisted into a circle or oval;
• purchased baby bubble gun.

How to make soap bubbles: classic and cool recipes

A purchased bottle with soapy water usually ends in an instant. It is quite possible to make a mixture for rainbow balls on your own with quality, as in a store, but with a larger volume. Ordinary soap bubbles are made from improvised means.

From laundry soap

Features Laundry soap is in every home.Well, glycerin is easy to buy at the nearest pharmacy. An alternative to household soap is a regular toilet based on natural oils (without fragrances). And glycerin in this recipe can be replaced with two tablespoons of very sweet water.

Cooking

1. Boil two liters of water.
2. Add one glass of grated soap.
3. Stir until the chips are completely dissolved.
4. Pour a couple of tablespoons of glycerin.

From liquid soap

Features Any liquid soap is suitable for this recipe. And if the child is an allergic person, it is better if it is a child’s, so the baby will not have to contact with “doubtful” components.

Cooking

1. Mix 100 ml of liquid soap and a half tablespoons of distilled water.
2. Send the mixture for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
3. After the foam disappears, add ten drops of glycerin to the base of the bubbles.
4. Put it in the cold for a few hours.

The sweet way

Features Sugar strengthens the walls of the bubbles no worse than glycerin. So, if the latter is not at hand, feel free to replace it with a sweet component. If the finished composition is removed for almost a day in a cold place, then the solution will become clean, without a bubble film.

Cooking

1. Pour into a bowl half a glass of funds such as fairies.
2. We dilute two or three tablespoons of sugar in two glasses of water and pour into a container.
3. Stir well.

From baby shampoo

Features Children love not only blowing soap bubbles, but also popping them right there. Your child will be able to do this quite calmly if they are based on baby shampoo that does not gnaw at the eyes.

Cooking

1. Pour in a container a bottle of shampoo for children (usually 200-250 ml).
2. Add 0.4-0.5 liters of water, respectively.
3. Put in the refrigerator for a day.
4. After a day, three tablespoons of glycerin are added to the chilled and infused mixture.
5. Mix well.

Huge Bubble Mix

Features Thanks to this composition, it will be possible to get giant bubbles. You can take a large basin, proportionally increase the dosage of ingredients and launch large soap balls with a sports hoop or a wire twisted in a circle. By the way, in this case there is no need to blow bubbles, they will fly out themselves while raising the ring from the bowl.

Cooking

1. Pour 0.3 liter of water into a half-liter jar.
2. Dilute in it four tablespoons of sugar and glycerin (about two and a half tablespoons).
3. At the final stage, fill the remaining free space in the bank with dishwashing detergent.
4. Soap the contents well mixed.

Mix to make garlands

Features And you can make so that the bubbles are blown out by hundreds and intertwined into real garlands. Here is just such a recipe.

Cooking

1. Take one glass each: dish detergent, shampoo and shower gel.
2. Pour everything into one container and mix.
3. Dilute the resulting mixture with seven tablespoons of water.
4. If the liquid is thick, dilute with water again.

Mixture to make pyramids

Features But the recipe is a special composition. A little imagination - and on your child’s table soap castles, space characters, bizarre designs will grow. You need to blow such balls on a smooth, even surface, piling soapy figures on top of each other. It is most convenient to use the body of a ballpoint pen or a cocktail tube.

Cooking

1. We prepare three glasses of hot water.
2. Add to it one ml of ammonia, two or three tablespoons of washing powder, half a glass of glycerin.
3. Let the solution brew for at least three days in a cool place, then filter.
4. Keep in the refrigerator.

Mix so that the balls do not burst

Features You can make non-bursting soap bubbles without glycerin. The role of the fixing components will be sugar and gelatin. Therefore before
how to make strong soap bubbles, make sure that at home there are several bags of gelling agent.

Cooking

1. Dilute 50 g of gelatin in a small amount of warm water.
2. Leave to swell, and then strain.
3. Pour 50 g of sugar here.
4. Put on the stove and heat until sugar is completely dissolved.
5. Dilute the resulting composition with water (about 0.8 l).
6. Gently, so as not to form a foam, add 200 ml of dishwashing gel.

The secrets of creating color ...

And again, back to the story. The American inventor Tim Kehoe has spent over a dozen years of his life and several million dollars on the realization of his cherished dream - the creation of colored bubbles. The highlight of his “soap-colored” discovery, which happened already in the 2000s, is that after a certain time, blue, red or yellow bubbles burst and at the same time do not leave spots.

At home, spectacular multi-colored bubbles will turn out if you dilute a regular food coloring in any prescription solution. And to arrange a real color carnival, pour the soap base into several containers and add your own color to each.

... flavored ...

The "fragrant" recipe for a solution for inflating balls from soap is very simple. It consists in combining one part of water with three parts of bath foam. In this case, the bubbles will not only play in the sun with beautiful tints, but also smell appetizing with strawberries, vanilla, chocolate, lemon or pine needles.

... and freezing balls

Pay attention to the consistency of the composition for solidifying balls: it should be at least a couple of times thicker than usual and resemble a viscous, transparent glue or strong sugar syrup. Such bubbles freeze upon contact with the surface and are prepared in four steps.

Make a thick sugar syrup. To do this, pour two tablespoons (with a hill) of sugar with one spoon of warm water.

1. We rub the fourth part of a one-hundred-piece bar of soap.
2. Mix two tablespoons of glycerin with soap shavings.
3. We will connect everything and add five to six tablespoons of distilled water (boiled water is also suitable).

Quality control

Based on any of the recipes, you can safely experiment. The main thing is not to go too far with these or those components. Check the condition of the finished fluid as follows:

• blow out the bubble;
• remove a little foam from the top of the finished solution with your finger;
• with a foamy finger touch the bubble.

If the ball bursts, it is necessary to add an additional soap, drip glycerin or sugar syrup. The bubble remained intact - the composition turned out to be correct.

Guinness Book Bubbles

The art of creating and blowing soap bubbles is very popular and massive. Real professionals in this field not only keep unique secret formulas secret: for years they hone the technique of movements, they subtly feel the “right” natural conditions (humidity and wind).

If you think that soap bubbles are purely summer fun, then you are mistaken. In winter, transparent balls take on a fabulous look. You already know how to make soap bubbles with your own hands without glycerin. Use this recipe and watch how the frosty air decorates the balls with bizarre, lace patterns. Such as on home windows on the coldest winter days. This is guaranteed to appeal to both children and adults, because we are not averse to once again returning to the bright world of childhood.