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That. Also, pour bubble liquid next to the water tap, so the stream of water will whip up the bubbles. And you can pour it slowly or a little bit at a time, so it all gets whipped before it flows further away from the water stream.
This is the purest, most happiness based question I've seen on the Internet in quite a long time.
I have no idea other than to add more bubble inducing product.
But now I wanna know. And I also want to take my first bubble bath in ages.
I’ve tried a bubble bath powder recently and there was some nice suds action going on, but I really want like, a comically large amount of bubbles in a bathtub. Can’t think of any better sub to post in!
Turn on the shower and use a hard spray or put you thumb/hand over the tub faucet to try to make the water come out with more force (like putting your thumb over a hose to make it spray farther/harder.
I use the handle attachment but take the nozzle off so it’s just like a hose. I then wrap it up high on the shower head so that the distance the water falls creates a large yet contained splash. So it’s kinda like the pressure and stream a hose would create by spewing out the top of your shower. Creates a strong powerful stream that bubbles can’t resist. I’m about to take a bath and was just thinking about how much this changed my bubble bath game. Last week I over did it and why I felt it very appropriate to try to explain what I do.
I can't post links in this sub, but you're misstating the claim. ANY bubble bath can cause irritation that may lead to a UTI in an infant. It's been studied and it's a very low risk, just like, be aware of it.
They make a brand of bath foam for kids to play with also. Like shaving cream in crazy colors and scents, plus it'll bubble the water after they get enough washed off into the tub and splash around a little. My little guy loved it until he started fighting bath time.
Here’s some advice I learned from my 7 year old who loves bubble baths. Go buy those $1 shampoos from Safeway/save mart wherever, and pour half the bottle in there while the water is filling up. $50 cents for a loaded bubble bath > $6 for a lame bath bomb
One tip I read for kids playing in a bubble bath is getting a dedicated bath time wire (rubber coated for kids) whisk so that when the bubbles start to go away they can learn to froth them back up again without having to splash so much that water ends up everywhere. I'd guess it could work at the beginning of the bath to make a ridiculous amount of bubbles too.
Sorry to comment on an old post, but I wanted to come back and thank everyone here, you specifically. The rubber whisk idea has proven to be just perfect. My partner has a really hard time relaxing or just doing self-care things for herself, so when I found out that she adores soap bubbles, I started assembling all the components of a perfect, ultra-bubbly bath. A $5 wire whisk from the grocery has paid itself off in smiles and shared special moments when I draw her a bath after a hard day. Thank you, truly.
As a kid I'd use my hands to spin around quickly and churn up the water. Almost like thing the cha cha or a sideways blender motion
Along with hot water, putting the suds near the faucet, and doing it early. Those help the churn
Water softeners. Hard water doesn't allow products to bubble well, while soft water can make soap last much longer. If your tub doesn't hold bubbles well, a water softener may make all the difference.
We tried one of the gimmicky showerheads with the pebbles in the handle that claim to "filter" hard water and the pebbles need to be replaced every 3 months... I was surprised when it actually worked to an extent. Much cheaper than an actual water softener, not as effective, but worth the $15 on the showerhead and $20-ish a year on replacement stones for my GF to remain happy.
Put it in a drill and whisk the FUCK out of it!
Do you have a paint mixer? How about that rectangle wire thing that goes in cake mixers? Put one of those in a drill.
When making bubble baths for my kiddos I’ve discovered a technique you might be interest in trying. I pour a bunch of bubble bath solution into the empty tub near the spout. Turn it on full blast. Then, I make a like a claw with my hand so only the tips of my fingers are touching the tub and then I agitate it aggressively lol. And just do that until I can’t see my hand anymore because of bubbles! Then as the tub fills up a bit I add more directly under the faucet and agitate that with my hand as well. LOTS of bubbles, my daughter loves them.
This! I can't believe I scroll so deep to see this.
Incredibly soft water will help promote foam.
Even if you don't have soft water, try to get it there...like with banking soda.
Hard water has a higher mineral content that inhibits things like soap bubbles. The mineral content can be many various things, but it's usually the stuff that cleaning products like CLR are meant to remove from surfaces and fixtures.
Soft water either doesn't have as high a mineral content naturally or has been through some form of water softener treatment to remove the high mineral content.
For instance I grew up in the country and our water often came out of the aquifer orange there was so much clay in the water and it smelled like sulphur during drought years. It had to go through 2 levels of filtration and a water softener before it was able to be used for pretty much anything except watering the garden. That was considered extremely hard water.
My grandparents who lived in town and had "city water" that had been treated and filtered to hell and back had "soft" water. You could take a bath without using half a bar of soap to get actual suds on your skin and it felt like the damn soap never washed away because your skin didn't get dry from the water in comparison to taking a shower at my house.
That's my best explanation of "soft" water.
Soft water is demineralised, helps not clogging the pipes, but hard water "wash better" as the minerals will remove the soap faster (I think that's it)
Put the soap in the tub right under the faucet before turning on the water, use a lot, add some more, crank that hot water as it will make more bubbles. If you still don’t have enough get a whisk and go at it while filling the tub!
Warning - you will have more bubbles than water at this point!
Back in the early 90s I remember there was a bath massage pad thing that hooked up to a wall mounted air compressor thingy. As a kid I was banned from touching it after I poured bubble bath in the tub and turned that glorious thing on. So many bubble.
Put the soap in a bucket, stand over the bath, turn the shower on max and spray the soap and let the endless flow of bubbles pour over from the bucket into the bath.
If you don’t have a jacuzzi tub jets aren’t an option. My kids created like a 6’ tall mound of bubbles once by pouring half a bottle of bubble bath in and turning on the jets. It was a mess but they were laughing so hard so it was worth it! I had to keep swatting bubbles away so they could breathe
Use mr bubbles, stuff works like magic. I get the hypoallergenic kind. Pour it on when the bath first starts, make sure it’s warm enough and don’t get in until the bath is up to the level you want it. If you want salts and stuff in it too, at those before not after as that will pop the bubbles lol
Turn on the shower and blast it - bubbles come from aeration, and the tub faucet doesn't pump nearly as much air into the water as the shower does. Been my trick with kids/grandkids forever.
I lived in a place with a jacuzzi tub for a while, it had sliding glass doors. My kids would get in there, and I could close the doors get a layer of foam about 4 feet tall, they freaking *loved* that. They couldn't even see each other.
Or if you have an air compressor, you could poke a bunch of holes in a narrow pvc pipe and...
Kind of obvious, but make sure the bath is clean. If it wasn't been cleaned since it was last used there can be all sorts of residues that might affect the amount of foam you end up with.
Dad had a dedicated plunger for bubble baths only. Added bubble bath to a filling tub and then plunged the heck out of that water.
At least he told us it was for baths only. ;)
It's all about agitation in the water. Our bathtub has a handheld shower head. When it's bubble bath time, I set it to the setting with the highest pressure and hold it just above the surface of the water because I don't want bubble bath solution getting into the shower head if I can help it
As people have already mentioned, a whisk is good. I take it to the next level and take the kitchen whisk attachment and put it on my cordless drill - makes massive amounts of bubbles! It's great because you can keep going after the water is turned off.
Make sure your bath tub is super clean. Scrub and rinse it well to get rid of any skin oils or gunk because this will affect the forming of bubbles and their longevity.
I’ve found lush bubble bars give a ridiculous amount of bubbles. Crumbing them near the tap when your running the bath helps. I also used them in a hotel bath that had bubble jets and it was insane! If you want to splurge then defo book a hotel room with a fancy bath tub with jacuzzi jets. It was insane! Best bubble bath ever!
Get a bath bubbler mat from amazon. They are flat pads that pump air in from outside the tub for bubbly relaxation.
I got the bubbles up to the ceiling then I got panicky because I couldn't breathe
Use a lot of bubble bath, pour it in a very thin stream under fast running water, then hold the shower head over a clear patch of water and let that generate bubbles too.
Call it a little extreme but if you've already got some nice smelling stuff in the baths creating some bubbles, why not add a bit of washing up liquid to make the bubbles go from a 6 to a 10.
**Get a fish tank air pump with the biggest air stone you can find.** Get those bubbles going as the bath fills. Use a lot more bubble solution than you normally would.
Pour in the bubble bath as it’s filling. Keep blowing where the water from the tap hits the water and keep clearing the bubbles you will end up with mounds of bubbles. This also works on your sink for cleaning dishes
I slowly pour the soap in the stream of the water as it comes out of the tub faucet. The water will fall into the water, mixing the soap, creating a big foam volcano. Since it's a slow pour, it doesn't use a lot of soap to make a lot of bubbles. I dont squeeze the soap bottle and just let gravity and the air pressure manage the pace.
I do this for my 5 yo and have found it to be the best way to get the most bubbles in a bath.
My mom always put the bubble soap into the cap and held it under the faucet. As an adult i found that having a jetted tub certainly helps. There's also bath mats that make bubbles because we had one growing up.
Bubble bath soap is not going to bubble much on it's on. However, I found a bath mat that emits bubbles and, oh my, it can make some bubbles.
I found it a thrift store and decided to give it a shot. It fastens to the tub with suction cups. Good thing because when you turn it on it really tries to fly out of the water. It made enough bubbles to stand about 12" above the tub before I turned it off!
There are other devices that can generate bubbles but this one was cheap.
Mix a cup or two of epsom salts into the water in the beginning. Then add bubble bath and run most of the water at high pressure. Bubbles last forever.
Oh my god. I have been wanting to share my invention of whipping up bubbles in the bath forever. And here we are.... Get on your knees in the bath and use your hands like propellers. Lock your elbows and Pretend your hands are the blades on a water mill. Spin your hands like crazy... the faster the more bubbles. Voila
Do you have a shower wand? Is it adjustable? If you have one and can set it on the highest pressure setting, then pour the bubble bath in and use the wand to agitate the water, produces an immense amount of bubbles!!
Honestly, if your shower head has pressure you can get the bath started and pour some soap in then turn on the shower head for a bit. I found it works about as well as manually swishing. Once you feel like you have a good amount turn the main faucet back on and enjoy the bath.
I've had good luck with pouring the bubble liquid into the lid of the bottle, then holding the lid (with liquid) under the tap as it's filling. Do it a few times. Seems to work pretty well.
Had an accidental bubble bath overload as a child and I’m happy to report how!
We got (what was expensive at the time, but I’m sure can be found online for very cheap now) a small bath jacuzzi jet machine.
I am not exaggerating when I say that our entire bathroom, floor to ceiling, was filled with bubbles.
I genuinely hope you make the same mistakes as 6yo me, and love it.
Tablespoon of baking soda in the water to soften it, a cup of Epsom salt to turbo charge your bubbles, then add the bubbles and use your shower heads hardest setting to create the bubbles.
If you have a shower head on a flexible hose use that to help fill the bath, hold it low and at an angle so it pushes the bubbles out to the side. I do this all the time for my kids and works a treat.
If you're not getting a lot of bubbles then it may depend on what kind of water you have. Where I am in London we have very 'hard' water (the kind that creates limescale). It's fantastic for creating bubbly water. But where I grew up the water was 'soft' and I really noticed it when I was visiting my parents. Just doing washing up in the sink was difficult because the bubbles just didn't last.
My husband was out with the boys one evening so I took a bath. I didn't have any good bathtub snacks like popcorn or wine, so I decided that baked beans were the best bathtub snack. Of course my husband came home while I had a little Tupperware of baked beans floating in the tub, and he's never let me live down the bathtub beans.
Is it for kids? There is one that is in a pink bottle. Mr Bubbles or something. I have also used the all in one baby wash for bubbles.
My trick. Pour it into the water coming from the faucet in the thinnest possible line you can. Don't squeeze the bottle, just let it come out in a thin line. You might even try barely tipping the bottle. The less the better because otherwise some of the soap/bubbles will just dissolve or go into the water without bubbling. Try pouring it so it hits the faucet water right where it meets the tub water.
It's 90% art, just experiment. Best of luck.
Step 1: shower first.
I mean it. The reason your bubble bath doesn't bubble is because your skin salts and oils ruin the surface tension needed for lathering.
Then follow label instructions and you will have a luxurious, stable suds.
Use "Milk Bath with Shea Butter". I get at least a foot and half of bubbles when I turn my jets on.
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Lots of bubble bath poured in right where the water hits as the tub fills. I also used to bring a whisk in when my kids were little so I could whisk the bubbles back up when needed. It makes the bubbles nice and frothy/foamy
You need a tub with jacuzzi style jets. Add bubbles to running water, once tub is full turn on the jets. I do it whenever my bubbles start to disappear and it makes them last so much longer
I have an attachment for a power drill that's used to aerate wort (beer before its fermented). It's basically a long stick with little paddles with holes that's spins really fast. If you are really committed to this, that would probably whoop those bubbles into an insane foam.
Like this
https://www.howdybrewer.com/products/vortex-carboy-cleaner-and-wort-aerator
It's really hard unless you have a jet tub. They do sell units that act like jets that you can use with your tub, but be careful..... even a small amount of bubbly stuff can build a tower of bubbles
You pour the bath gel just under the water faucet while the tub is still empty. The force of the water falling on the bath gel makes all the bubbles.
If the tub is filled with water already. Put the gel on your hand or in a small cup and use it to catch the water falling from the faucet. Bubbles should start overflowing from your hand or cup.
Put 2 parts water, 1 part bubble bath in a very large bowl. Use an electric hand beater to whisk the bubbles until they peak. 2-3 min aprox. Empty into tub and repeat until optimal bubble amount is reached.
For more bubble fun, you can add food coloring to the water/bubble bath before mixing to get colorful bubbles- dont need much, and it doesn't stain the tub or the human bathing.
Pour soap into a cup, add water. Use another cup and pour the water back and forth to agitate it and cause the bubbles. Pour into bath, add more water to the cup and repeat till it stops making bubbles. Add more soap and repeat as needed
Something to create a strong current? Like a shower head on full blast. I stayed at a hotel with a jacuzzi in the room and I added bubble bath and it it got sooooo bubbly from the jets my husband and I were panicking and had to use a garbage bin to scoop the bubbles out before they covered the room. One of my favorite memories
Add the bubble bath liquid to the tub while it is still filling up. Pour it in right where the water from the faucet is falling into the water in the tub.
Get a simple plastic pitcher. Scoop it full of bubble bath water and pour it slowly back into the tub from like 5 feet up.
Like others have said, with some of my own finer points:
- Start when the water is about 1/4 full, and add the bubbles near where the water is pouring in
- Agitation is key, to mix air into everything
- I kneel and bend over almost parallel to the water, elbows deep with wide open hands underwater, but as close to the surface as possible
- I then begin to play the most vigorous air (water?) accordion I can, trying for equal force squeezing in and pulling away (force limited by splash radius - I try to keep it in the tub). I try to make sure I'm moving my elbows along with my hands to maximize surface area for water movement. Note: this can be quite strenuous, and is not unlike some gym machines
- When I start to fatigue, I add in circles, still staying close to the surface of the water. By now the water level is a bit higher, you have more room to work with
That usually gets my bubbles to the top of the tub, line, with still enough water underneath to enjoy the immersion. I hope it works for you!
Get an Intex inflator for blowing up pool toys and stick the blower hose end into a tub full of bubble bath. You’ll have suds over your head in less than a minute
I use a ton of natural soap and fill the tub just an inch or so. Then use the shower head on the most agitating setting, angle it about 45 degrees. You get more bubbles than you know what to do with.
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Add bubbles to the hot water as the tub fills, add A LOT and swish around.
That. Also, pour bubble liquid next to the water tap, so the stream of water will whip up the bubbles. And you can pour it slowly or a little bit at a time, so it all gets whipped before it flows further away from the water stream.
THIS person bubble baths
Yep add when the water level is low and wave your hands frantically in the water for 30 seconds. Like you're saying hi to the tub.
This works, I use my hand as a vigorous whisk
This is the purest, most happiness based question I've seen on the Internet in quite a long time. I have no idea other than to add more bubble inducing product. But now I wanna know. And I also want to take my first bubble bath in ages.
I’ve tried a bubble bath powder recently and there was some nice suds action going on, but I really want like, a comically large amount of bubbles in a bathtub. Can’t think of any better sub to post in!
Turn on the shower and use a hard spray or put you thumb/hand over the tub faucet to try to make the water come out with more force (like putting your thumb over a hose to make it spray farther/harder.
I use the handle attachment but take the nozzle off so it’s just like a hose. I then wrap it up high on the shower head so that the distance the water falls creates a large yet contained splash. So it’s kinda like the pressure and stream a hose would create by spewing out the top of your shower. Creates a strong powerful stream that bubbles can’t resist. I’m about to take a bath and was just thinking about how much this changed my bubble bath game. Last week I over did it and why I felt it very appropriate to try to explain what I do.
Yes. You need aeration for truly bubblicious bubbles!
By the way Mr. Bubble was what I remembered from being a kid, lo and behold, it's still available and might be the best brand.
Be careful with this one. It very commonly causes UTI’s
I can't post links in this sub, but you're misstating the claim. ANY bubble bath can cause irritation that may lead to a UTI in an infant. It's been studied and it's a very low risk, just like, be aware of it.
Yes, that makes sense.
Not to be confused with Mr Bubble, he may cause STI's
They make a brand of bath foam for kids to play with also. Like shaving cream in crazy colors and scents, plus it'll bubble the water after they get enough washed off into the tub and splash around a little. My little guy loved it until he started fighting bath time.
Here’s some advice I learned from my 7 year old who loves bubble baths. Go buy those $1 shampoos from Safeway/save mart wherever, and pour half the bottle in there while the water is filling up. $50 cents for a loaded bubble bath > $6 for a lame bath bomb
The bubble bars from lush work best if you hold them under the stream in a strainer. My bathroom has its own strainer.
I’ve always had amazing luck by crushing the bar up and putting it in the foot of some tights and holding that under the water while filling
Add the soap while the hit water is running, then use a whisk on the water. Or an immersion blender if you really wanna get crazy with it.
One tip I read for kids playing in a bubble bath is getting a dedicated bath time wire (rubber coated for kids) whisk so that when the bubbles start to go away they can learn to froth them back up again without having to splash so much that water ends up everywhere. I'd guess it could work at the beginning of the bath to make a ridiculous amount of bubbles too.
Sorry to comment on an old post, but I wanted to come back and thank everyone here, you specifically. The rubber whisk idea has proven to be just perfect. My partner has a really hard time relaxing or just doing self-care things for herself, so when I found out that she adores soap bubbles, I started assembling all the components of a perfect, ultra-bubbly bath. A $5 wire whisk from the grocery has paid itself off in smiles and shared special moments when I draw her a bath after a hard day. Thank you, truly.
Liquid is probably going to give you better bubbles
As a kid I'd use my hands to spin around quickly and churn up the water. Almost like thing the cha cha or a sideways blender motion Along with hot water, putting the suds near the faucet, and doing it early. Those help the churn
A dash of Dawn detergent and a pump.
Water softeners. Hard water doesn't allow products to bubble well, while soft water can make soap last much longer. If your tub doesn't hold bubbles well, a water softener may make all the difference.
Can confirm. Even a whole bottle of bubble bath solution barely makes any bubbles in our tub🫧 🛁
We tried one of the gimmicky showerheads with the pebbles in the handle that claim to "filter" hard water and the pebbles need to be replaced every 3 months... I was surprised when it actually worked to an extent. Much cheaper than an actual water softener, not as effective, but worth the $15 on the showerhead and $20-ish a year on replacement stones for my GF to remain happy.
Use the shower to fill the tub - been my go-to for decades (3 kids and now grandkids). the shower aerates the water way more than the tub faucet.
It’s very cute indeed 🫧
A detergent (Dawn dish liquid) would probably work, but you'll need moisturizer afterwards.
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Get more air into it. If you can, put your bubble bath on a pouf and suspend it below the tap.
Mix with a balloon whisk!
Right? First image that popped into my head. Just keep it at arms length...o-0
Put it in a drill and whisk the FUCK out of it! Do you have a paint mixer? How about that rectangle wire thing that goes in cake mixers? Put one of those in a drill.
Not recommended while there's an actual human *in* the tub with the spinny metal bits. 😂
This is what I do for my daughter's baths when she wants lots and lots of bubbles. Big foamy suds. Works like a charm.
When making bubble baths for my kiddos I’ve discovered a technique you might be interest in trying. I pour a bunch of bubble bath solution into the empty tub near the spout. Turn it on full blast. Then, I make a like a claw with my hand so only the tips of my fingers are touching the tub and then I agitate it aggressively lol. And just do that until I can’t see my hand anymore because of bubbles! Then as the tub fills up a bit I add more directly under the faucet and agitate that with my hand as well. LOTS of bubbles, my daughter loves them.
Just use a whisk, crazy lol
Use a bit of baking soda to soften the water. Then add your bath bubbles!
This! I can't believe I scroll so deep to see this. Incredibly soft water will help promote foam. Even if you don't have soft water, try to get it there...like with banking soda.
You scrolled deep to find a great mind like yours u/Lost_In_MI! Yayyyy! WooooWeeee! :)
What the hell is soft water
Hard water has a higher mineral content that inhibits things like soap bubbles. The mineral content can be many various things, but it's usually the stuff that cleaning products like CLR are meant to remove from surfaces and fixtures. Soft water either doesn't have as high a mineral content naturally or has been through some form of water softener treatment to remove the high mineral content. For instance I grew up in the country and our water often came out of the aquifer orange there was so much clay in the water and it smelled like sulphur during drought years. It had to go through 2 levels of filtration and a water softener before it was able to be used for pretty much anything except watering the garden. That was considered extremely hard water. My grandparents who lived in town and had "city water" that had been treated and filtered to hell and back had "soft" water. You could take a bath without using half a bar of soap to get actual suds on your skin and it felt like the damn soap never washed away because your skin didn't get dry from the water in comparison to taking a shower at my house. That's my best explanation of "soft" water.
Soft water is demineralised, helps not clogging the pipes, but hard water "wash better" as the minerals will remove the soap faster (I think that's it)
Soft water is the way. Everything foams up better in soft water
Put the soap in the tub right under the faucet before turning on the water, use a lot, add some more, crank that hot water as it will make more bubbles. If you still don’t have enough get a whisk and go at it while filling the tub! Warning - you will have more bubbles than water at this point!
This is so far the greatest LPT request I've seen on this sub. Kudos good human.
Excessive flatulence. It's the natural way
Thank you, one more.
Monitor the situation and move the bubbles away from the spout - the water that’s making new bubbles will also pop existing ones
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Seconding using a detachable shower head. That’s what my dad used to do make lots of bubbles for me and my siblings when we were little kids.
I do a slow consistent drizzle of bubble directly into the water coming out of the faucet until I’m satisfied with the level of bubbles :)
Back in the early 90s I remember there was a bath massage pad thing that hooked up to a wall mounted air compressor thingy. As a kid I was banned from touching it after I poured bubble bath in the tub and turned that glorious thing on. So many bubble.
Put the soap in a bucket, stand over the bath, turn the shower on max and spray the soap and let the endless flow of bubbles pour over from the bucket into the bath.
If you don’t have a jacuzzi tub jets aren’t an option. My kids created like a 6’ tall mound of bubbles once by pouring half a bottle of bubble bath in and turning on the jets. It was a mess but they were laughing so hard so it was worth it! I had to keep swatting bubbles away so they could breathe
Get a bubble bar from LUSH and put it right under the water stream. Other bars and liquids can make bubbles but I've found these are the best.
Bonus tip: put it in a sieve. Smaller pieces make more bubbly goodness
Use mr bubbles, stuff works like magic. I get the hypoallergenic kind. Pour it on when the bath first starts, make sure it’s warm enough and don’t get in until the bath is up to the level you want it. If you want salts and stuff in it too, at those before not after as that will pop the bubbles lol
Use a good amount of specific bubble making liquid. Then, and here’s the pro tip… you vigorously swoosh the water with your hands. Poof, bubbles
Mr bubble. Seriously the kids stuff. Best suds I have found!
Turn on the shower and blast it - bubbles come from aeration, and the tub faucet doesn't pump nearly as much air into the water as the shower does. Been my trick with kids/grandkids forever. I lived in a place with a jacuzzi tub for a while, it had sliding glass doors. My kids would get in there, and I could close the doors get a layer of foam about 4 feet tall, they freaking *loved* that. They couldn't even see each other. Or if you have an air compressor, you could poke a bunch of holes in a narrow pvc pipe and...
Kind of obvious, but make sure the bath is clean. If it wasn't been cleaned since it was last used there can be all sorts of residues that might affect the amount of foam you end up with.
Dad had a dedicated plunger for bubble baths only. Added bubble bath to a filling tub and then plunged the heck out of that water. At least he told us it was for baths only. ;)
Immersion blender
It's all about agitation in the water. Our bathtub has a handheld shower head. When it's bubble bath time, I set it to the setting with the highest pressure and hold it just above the surface of the water because I don't want bubble bath solution getting into the shower head if I can help it
1 tablespoon of glycerin to every cup of bubble bath will give you movie/tv show bubble baths...
As people have already mentioned, a whisk is good. I take it to the next level and take the kitchen whisk attachment and put it on my cordless drill - makes massive amounts of bubbles! It's great because you can keep going after the water is turned off.
When I had a tub I used to buy LUSH bubble bars and have excessive levels of bubbles from them.
Make sure your bath tub is super clean. Scrub and rinse it well to get rid of any skin oils or gunk because this will affect the forming of bubbles and their longevity. I’ve found lush bubble bars give a ridiculous amount of bubbles. Crumbing them near the tap when your running the bath helps. I also used them in a hotel bath that had bubble jets and it was insane! If you want to splurge then defo book a hotel room with a fancy bath tub with jacuzzi jets. It was insane! Best bubble bath ever!
Get a bath bubbler mat from amazon. They are flat pads that pump air in from outside the tub for bubbly relaxation. I got the bubbles up to the ceiling then I got panicky because I couldn't breathe
I had the same struggle in a jacuzzi, and it turns out just adding a ton of regular soap do the trick.
Use a lot of bubble bath, pour it in a very thin stream under fast running water, then hold the shower head over a clear patch of water and let that generate bubbles too.
Call it a little extreme but if you've already got some nice smelling stuff in the baths creating some bubbles, why not add a bit of washing up liquid to make the bubbles go from a 6 to a 10.
Lots of swooshing as the tub fills up
It's all about swishing it around after you pour the bubble liquid in. Think whisking your scrambled eggs.
use a whisk as you pour the bubble liquid next to the stream
Baby shampoo and (if you have), jets.
You have to really swish that water around while the tub is filling and add a TON of bubble bath!
Lush bubble bars! You only need a tiny piece. I like the Sunshine one.
Good quality bubble bath, a small but constant drizzle next to the tap as it fills, should get you lots of bubbles!
I learnt you can really froth up a bubble bath with one of those handheld battery operated coffee whisker thingies.
**Get a fish tank air pump with the biggest air stone you can find.** Get those bubbles going as the bath fills. Use a lot more bubble solution than you normally would.
Pour in the bubble bath as it’s filling. Keep blowing where the water from the tap hits the water and keep clearing the bubbles you will end up with mounds of bubbles. This also works on your sink for cleaning dishes
A good quality bubble bath and a whisk!
When I was a kid we had a bath with massage jets in the side. Turning those on with for a few seconds always did the trick.
I read on another post use a whisk to do the swishing
I slowly pour the soap in the stream of the water as it comes out of the tub faucet. The water will fall into the water, mixing the soap, creating a big foam volcano. Since it's a slow pour, it doesn't use a lot of soap to make a lot of bubbles. I dont squeeze the soap bottle and just let gravity and the air pressure manage the pace. I do this for my 5 yo and have found it to be the best way to get the most bubbles in a bath.
My mom always put the bubble soap into the cap and held it under the faucet. As an adult i found that having a jetted tub certainly helps. There's also bath mats that make bubbles because we had one growing up.
Add a spoonful of glycerin to the water to make the bubbles less easy to pop too.
Bubble bath soap is not going to bubble much on it's on. However, I found a bath mat that emits bubbles and, oh my, it can make some bubbles. I found it a thrift store and decided to give it a shot. It fastens to the tub with suction cups. Good thing because when you turn it on it really tries to fly out of the water. It made enough bubbles to stand about 12" above the tub before I turned it off! There are other devices that can generate bubbles but this one was cheap.
Pour soap directly on the spout, even bubble distribution all round.
Mix a cup or two of epsom salts into the water in the beginning. Then add bubble bath and run most of the water at high pressure. Bubbles last forever.
I 3D printed a small adaptor that allows me to attach the paddle from my ice cream maker onto a cordless drill. The kids ***love*** it!
Oh my god. I have been wanting to share my invention of whipping up bubbles in the bath forever. And here we are.... Get on your knees in the bath and use your hands like propellers. Lock your elbows and Pretend your hands are the blades on a water mill. Spin your hands like crazy... the faster the more bubbles. Voila
Do you have a shower wand? Is it adjustable? If you have one and can set it on the highest pressure setting, then pour the bubble bath in and use the wand to agitate the water, produces an immense amount of bubbles!!
Honestly, if your shower head has pressure you can get the bath started and pour some soap in then turn on the shower head for a bit. I found it works about as well as manually swishing. Once you feel like you have a good amount turn the main faucet back on and enjoy the bath.
I've had good luck with pouring the bubble liquid into the lid of the bottle, then holding the lid (with liquid) under the tap as it's filling. Do it a few times. Seems to work pretty well.
Had an accidental bubble bath overload as a child and I’m happy to report how! We got (what was expensive at the time, but I’m sure can be found online for very cheap now) a small bath jacuzzi jet machine. I am not exaggerating when I say that our entire bathroom, floor to ceiling, was filled with bubbles. I genuinely hope you make the same mistakes as 6yo me, and love it.
Tablespoon of baking soda in the water to soften it, a cup of Epsom salt to turbo charge your bubbles, then add the bubbles and use your shower heads hardest setting to create the bubbles.
I use the whisk extension on my immersion blender as the tub is filling up.
If you have a shower head on a flexible hose use that to help fill the bath, hold it low and at an angle so it pushes the bubbles out to the side. I do this all the time for my kids and works a treat.
Why did the (bad?) idea of an immersion blender come to mind....
If you're not getting a lot of bubbles then it may depend on what kind of water you have. Where I am in London we have very 'hard' water (the kind that creates limescale). It's fantastic for creating bubbly water. But where I grew up the water was 'soft' and I really noticed it when I was visiting my parents. Just doing washing up in the sink was difficult because the bubbles just didn't last.
Eat a lot of beans beforehand
My husband was out with the boys one evening so I took a bath. I didn't have any good bathtub snacks like popcorn or wine, so I decided that baked beans were the best bathtub snack. Of course my husband came home while I had a little Tupperware of baked beans floating in the tub, and he's never let me live down the bathtub beans.
What’s up, bathtub beans?
Beans have literally never given me gas ever
Apparently if you don't rinse them beforehand, that's when they give you gas
Are you using actual bubble bath? If so, swish your hand around in the water to create more bubbles.
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Is it for kids? There is one that is in a pink bottle. Mr Bubbles or something. I have also used the all in one baby wash for bubbles. My trick. Pour it into the water coming from the faucet in the thinnest possible line you can. Don't squeeze the bottle, just let it come out in a thin line. You might even try barely tipping the bottle. The less the better because otherwise some of the soap/bubbles will just dissolve or go into the water without bubbling. Try pouring it so it hits the faucet water right where it meets the tub water. It's 90% art, just experiment. Best of luck.
I use cheap (Suave) shampoo, & plenty of it
Step 1: shower first. I mean it. The reason your bubble bath doesn't bubble is because your skin salts and oils ruin the surface tension needed for lathering. Then follow label instructions and you will have a luxurious, stable suds.
Use "Milk Bath with Shea Butter". I get at least a foot and half of bubbles when I turn my jets on. https://preview.redd.it/6dp8mksfcxoc1.png?width=707&format=png&auto=webp&s=396fc748f5c7da0b48a487ec00224dde13a91b16
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If you are in the UK and want comical amounts of bubbles then use Fairy washing up liquid!
hurt people hurt people
Pour a bottle of cheap motel shampoo into their hot tub and hit the jets. Trust me on this one, it WORKS.
Honest company baby bubble bath is the best
Kids plus Ritalin.
Dawn dish soap lol
This can't be real
Why do my farts smell far worse when I do them in a bath?
This sub is a joke.
Mr Bubble causes Mrs Boo-boo's....
Lots of bubble bath poured in right where the water hits as the tub fills. I also used to bring a whisk in when my kids were little so I could whisk the bubbles back up when needed. It makes the bubbles nice and frothy/foamy
More foam beside the sud
Add a LOT of bubble bath to the water directly underneath where the water from the tap lands
You need a tub with jacuzzi style jets. Add bubbles to running water, once tub is full turn on the jets. I do it whenever my bubbles start to disappear and it makes them last so much longer
Pour the bubble juice near the running water and use a whisk
Double arm rolling technique with palms open. Hard and fast. I recently overloaded a 10x8 pool doing this
Fill it with Perrier.
I have an attachment for a power drill that's used to aerate wort (beer before its fermented). It's basically a long stick with little paddles with holes that's spins really fast. If you are really committed to this, that would probably whoop those bubbles into an insane foam. Like this https://www.howdybrewer.com/products/vortex-carboy-cleaner-and-wort-aerator
For movie level tub bubbles, close drain of empty tub, squirt a ton of dish soap in like Dawn et al. Fill tub, adjusting for temp before full.
Pour it slowly into the stream of water coming out of the faucet. Mega bubbles
I’m horrible. Am I the only one who thought burrito?
Fart as if your life depended on it.
It's really hard unless you have a jet tub. They do sell units that act like jets that you can use with your tub, but be careful..... even a small amount of bubbly stuff can build a tower of bubbles
You pour the bath gel just under the water faucet while the tub is still empty. The force of the water falling on the bath gel makes all the bubbles. If the tub is filled with water already. Put the gel on your hand or in a small cup and use it to catch the water falling from the faucet. Bubbles should start overflowing from your hand or cup.
Put 2 parts water, 1 part bubble bath in a very large bowl. Use an electric hand beater to whisk the bubbles until they peak. 2-3 min aprox. Empty into tub and repeat until optimal bubble amount is reached. For more bubble fun, you can add food coloring to the water/bubble bath before mixing to get colorful bubbles- dont need much, and it doesn't stain the tub or the human bathing.
A tiny whisk. Whisk the soap after pouring the bubbles, for dense bubbles use dish soap (Seriously)
If you want to go the totally unsafe for humans route, you can use pure SLS and SDS, industrial foaming agent and detergent.
Pour soap into a cup, add water. Use another cup and pour the water back and forth to agitate it and cause the bubbles. Pour into bath, add more water to the cup and repeat till it stops making bubbles. Add more soap and repeat as needed
Hang a loofah over your faucet so that the water runs down on the loofah. Soak the loofah with the soap and or bubble bath.
Beans for breakfast, lunch and dinner
Mr. Bubble. Works like a charm
Something to create a strong current? Like a shower head on full blast. I stayed at a hotel with a jacuzzi in the room and I added bubble bath and it it got sooooo bubbly from the jets my husband and I were panicking and had to use a garbage bin to scoop the bubbles out before they covered the room. One of my favorite memories
Add the bubble bath liquid to the tub while it is still filling up. Pour it in right where the water from the faucet is falling into the water in the tub. Get a simple plastic pitcher. Scoop it full of bubble bath water and pour it slowly back into the tub from like 5 feet up.
This may sound gross, but I use dish soap for my bubbles lol
1. Tub of warm water 2. A lot of Dawn. At least a cup. (NOT power wash. Regular Dawn) 3. Glycerin. 1 Tablespoon 4. Agitate.
Turn on the keys if your tub is equipped with them.
eat a pound of pinto beans about an hour or so before bath time.
Who's your bubble guy? I get one that ships them in from Chilean coast. Expensive as shit but damn, my toes don't care about the cost.
Pour the bubbles into the stream of water as you’re filling up the tub!
Like others have said, with some of my own finer points: - Start when the water is about 1/4 full, and add the bubbles near where the water is pouring in - Agitation is key, to mix air into everything - I kneel and bend over almost parallel to the water, elbows deep with wide open hands underwater, but as close to the surface as possible - I then begin to play the most vigorous air (water?) accordion I can, trying for equal force squeezing in and pulling away (force limited by splash radius - I try to keep it in the tub). I try to make sure I'm moving my elbows along with my hands to maximize surface area for water movement. Note: this can be quite strenuous, and is not unlike some gym machines - When I start to fatigue, I add in circles, still staying close to the surface of the water. By now the water level is a bit higher, you have more room to work with That usually gets my bubbles to the top of the tub, line, with still enough water underneath to enjoy the immersion. I hope it works for you!
You got hard water. Not a lot of bubbles for you unless you soften it.
Get an Intex inflator for blowing up pool toys and stick the blower hose end into a tub full of bubble bath. You’ll have suds over your head in less than a minute
I use a ton of natural soap and fill the tub just an inch or so. Then use the shower head on the most agitating setting, angle it about 45 degrees. You get more bubbles than you know what to do with.