Magic Bubbles · Master Recipe
Mix the day before.
Rest overnight. Twelve hours minimum.
- Distilled or RO water
- 1 gal
- Baking soda
- 1 tsp
- Guar gum
- 1 tsp
- Rubbing alcohol90% or higher
- 2 tbsp
- Dawn Ultraoriginal blue
- 7½ tbsp
- White corn syrup
- 2 tbsp
- J-Lube powder
- 1 tsp
- Warm waterfor the J-Lube slurry
- 2 tbsp
- 1Fill a container with 1 gal of distilled or RO water.
- 2Add 1 tsp baking soda. Stir until dissolved.
- 3Make the guar slurry: mix 1 tsp guar gum into 2 tbsp rubbing alcohol. Pour into the water, stir gently, and wait 15 minutes.
- 4Add 7½ tbsp Dawn Ultra. Pour slowly down the side and fold in gently — no suds.
- 5Add 2 tbsp white corn syrup. Stir gently.
- 6Make the J-Lube slurry: mix 1 tsp J-Lube powder into 2 tbsp warm water. Stir through the clumps until smooth, then fold in gently.
- 7Cover and rest overnight. Twelve hours minimum; twenty-four is better.
Notes from the bucket
- Use 90% or 99% isopropyl alcohol — not 70%.
- Hot or dry day? Add an extra tablespoon of corn syrup per gallon before you start.
- Fold, don’t whisk. Suds are the enemy.
- Cotton rope wands love this mixture.
- The longer it rests, the better it gets.
- Keep the buckets in the shade.
- A few small J-Lube clumps are fine — they dissolve overnight.
