Mar
Fun Soap Experiment
I saw this over at Housing a Forest and we had to try it!
You’ll need a bar of Ivory soap and a microwave. Before we did the experiment we tested to see if the Ivory soap would sink or float- it floats. Then we tested the soap we usually use (Lever) and it sinks. In case you are curious- Ivory soap floats because it has air pumped into it while it is being made. But if you cut it in half you won’t find any air pockets.
So, get ready to stand by the microwave and watch this! Put it in for 2 minutes. Right around 20 seconds ours started to bubble.
This is the soap in the microwave. It isn’t smoking, that’s just the reflection of light on the microwave door.
Hailey watching. It had been in there for almost 2 minutes at this point.
When I opened the microwave door it shrunk a little bit, so it was actually a bit bigger than this.
This was such a fun experiment!
O.k…that was really neat!
Love how you are doing all these things with Hailey…..she’ll have such great memories of her childhood.
That is so amazingly cool!@
Fantastic! I have to do this, too cool. Thank you for sharing.
This has been on my to-try list for a while – maybe we’ll get to it this week!
How cool! I’m trying it this week with my children! Thanks!
I’m visiting from Science Sunday – I’m new to your blog and I’m sure I’ll be back!
~Mary
I LOVE it!!!
I love it! We had so much fun experimenting with Ivory Soap. Thanks for linking back to my site!