What's In Your Dish Soap?
As far as dish soaps go, there are green flags and red flags. When it comes to understanding how to wash dishes with efficiency and care, you can start with the ingredient list on your favorite bottle of dish soap. Checking to see what is in your household products is just as important as checking to see what's in your food, but isn't as easy as flipping over the dish soap bottle and reading what's inside.
In the cleaning product market-unlike the food or drug market-a full ingredient list on products is not a requirement by law.1 This secrecy, disguised as trade secrets, makes it difficult to know just what is in that blue bottle of soap sitting by your kitchen sink.
Make bubbles with dish soap
For this experiment, you'll need the following materials:
- dish soap
- water
- corn syrup
- wire
- string
- straws
- measuring cup
- large bowl
The steps for completing the science experiment are as follows:
1. To make a bubble solution: Take 1 cup of dish soap and add it to your mixing bowl. Add 3 cups of water, and 1/2 cup of corn syrup and mix everything.
2. Use a spool of wire or a hanger, and have an adult cut off about 8 inches for you. Take your piece of wire and make a loop with it at one end.
3. Twist your loop around six times to securely wrap the wire in place. Once your loop is in place you can form it into other shapes! Test it out.
4. Now, try making a bubble window. You'll need 2 straws and a long piece of string, about 12 inches long. Thread your string through both straws and then tie off the string. Dip into a bubble solution and try it out!
5. Now, take some of your bubble solution and put it on your cookie sheet. Dip your straw into the bubble solution and then hold it just above your cookie sheet. Blow into your straw until you have blown a bubble dome. Try to blow as many as you can!
