Recipes

Add your recipes here. If possible, please provide pictures of the bubble solution in action and make a note of what sort of bubbles you make with the solution.

A Basic Big Bubble Recipe (Edward Spiegel, June 2010)

This is a reliable big bubble recipe that seems to perform as well as (if not better) than many commercial thumb|300px|right|Some pretty big bubbles created with this mixture on a day with sub-optimal conditions.big bubble formulations. The video clip shows bubbles created with this solution on a day when the conditions were not particularly conducive to bubbling (humidity 50% or less and quite a bit of wind). This bubble juice seems easy to use for first time bubblers.

There are probably even better recipes out there, but this works great as you can see in the video.

• 8 cups tap water (I am on the SF Bay Peninsula which has pretty good water although the pH is about 8.2)
• 1 cup Dawn Ultra dish detergent
• 3 grams SurgiLube
• 1 gram J-Lube

You can probably substitute a KY-style personal lubricant (generic knockoffs are fine) if you can't find SurgiLube (which can be found at medical supply stores). J-Lube can be found on the web and at veterinary supply stores that provide supplies for livestock care (it is used as an obstetric lubricant for birthing horses and cows and the like).

This can probably be diluted somewhat more. I have found that reducing the lube quantities results in a solution that is a bit more difficult to bubble with.

If you can't find the J-Lube or Surgilube, try using KY personal lubricant (which you can find in just about any large grocery store or drugstore). You might need to increase the amount of KY.

I will try to experiment with more readily available ingredients and post back the results.

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