My personal Dawn recipe

If you want to make what I make to do cool big bubbles - kids inside a bubble (see photo) then this is what I do:

Put hula hoop down inside container
Use Non-Ultra Blue Dawn (available at WalMart) on top of the (cotton wrapped*) hula-hoop - then I pour water from the garden hose (Fairfax County water is pretty good stuff) all over the hoop. I let it sit for several minutes to soak in. After that, when I am ready, I rotate the hula-hoop once in one direction, then back to its starting position, then I bring the hula-hoop up. sometimes it takes a few minutes and rotations to get the soap working well.



*Cotton-wrapped hula-hoop: I cut up a t-shirt into long strips & wrap then sew it loosely around the hula-hoop. If you wind it too tightly, it will be too heavy to pick up when it's full of soapy water.

Bubble Soap Recipe

From the Maryland Science Center

1 Cup of Dawn Dishwashing Liquid
1/2 Cup Glycerin (available at a pharmacy)
1 Gallon of water

baking powder bubble mix

"today, at noon, in direct sun and dirty New York air, and 20% humidity, I was getting
twenty foot tubes and six foot spheres, with the following recipe:

12 cups water
1 cup canola oil
1 cup UltraJoy
1/8 cup baking powder

Then, if you add 1/4 cup Cricket Hill or Pustefix or Miracle Bubbles, it's even better."

(from David Stein - a bubble acquaintance - he was experimenting with a 7 pH & the baking powder brought the pH level both up and down to a 7)