A Sea of Bubbles

Finally, a post! 

A post about fluff and nonsense!

Okay, just fluff.  My posts are never about nonsense.

Baby Cakes loves bubbles.  She also has long hair.  She also loves to rub jelly covered hands in that long hair.  While bath time is not a total horror, it is pretty terrible trying to comb her hair out with all that food in it so we can shampoo it without causing even more tangles than are all ready in it.  She cries a lot.  It is very sad for The Man (bath time does not, thankfully, involve my input).  He is very much wrapped around her finger.

ANYWAY.  We quickly discovered that bubble bath is a more than sufficient distraction to the pain and agony of being cleaned every night.  We also quickly went through our small stash of bubble baths.  Being the cheapskate that I am, before shelling out my husbands hard-earned money for off-the-shelf bubble bath, I decided to see if I could make my own. 

Google is my friend. 

I found this website that got her recipe from childfun.com (though I can't find the recipe on there, not that I tried super hard).  It's easy, and super cheap to make:

Homemade Bubble Bath
1/2 cup shampoo, any type
3/4 cup water
1/4 tsp table salt

Combine the shampoo and water in a bowl and mix gently until it's well combined.  Then add the salt and stir until it thickens slightly.  Use a funnel to pour it into your choice of container.

BINGO!  I got cheapo Suave shampoo and now Baby Cakes has bubble bath, for $0.94.  If my shampoo wasn't clarifying, I would have just used that, but I was worried it might dry her skin out, and her skin is already dry enough thankyouverymuchhardwater.  You could use any shampoo that you want, from Burt's Bees to Biolage to homemade, I'm sure.  Mine didn't make a ton of bubbles (though I may not have put much in), and they seemed to go away pretty quickly, but they aren't totally gone and she's been in the water for 20 minutes now. 

I know, I know, I'm amazing.  You're welcome.