The Floating/Foaming Soap Experiment

Supplies Needed:

1 bar of Ivory soap

1 bar of any other brand soap

2 jars filled with water (clear containers are best for viewing purposes)

Drop in the "other" soap and watch it sink to 

the bottom of your glass.

Then drop in your Ivory soap and watch it float!

Success!  We explained to Aidyn the reason the Ivory soap floats is because it's made with air bubbles in it;

whereas other soaps are not made the same way.

Then we went onto try the foaming part of the experiment.

I originally found this on Steve Spangler's site and had to try it.

Place your Ivory soap on a plate in the microwave.

Set your time for about 2 minutes.

Watch as it expands and grows!

Once the soap cooled down we played with it to feel it's texture.

It felt much different than we expected-- try it out to see for yourself!