Soap Foam

I love using foaming soap dispensers for kids.  They are so much easier for them to wash off than goopy gel soap.  But I find it very difficult to purchase refills for said foam dispensers.  Then it hit me as I was trying to coax the last of the soap out of one dispenser that I probably could water down the gel stuff and use it which would save me even more on the cost of soap.

So I asked my husband, who invents cleaners for a living, if that would work.  He explained the difference between the soaps to me in terms I barely understood, but the gist of it is, yes, you can water down the thick stuff and it should work just fine in the foam dispensers.

So I tried it using about half soap, half water and it foamed right up.  Fantastic!

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Along those same lines... Did you know you could microwave a bar of soap and watch it grow into a puffy cloud of disinfectant?  It's kind of a fun science experiment for kids to see what happens to the soap when cooked.  And it feels cool after it's been puffed up.

Here are a couple picture of my kids trying it out if you'd like to know how much it grows: