Surfactant what exactly does it make the lava do

So i know its important but it was my understanding that it made it break into blobs..  But i redid my grande as i was unhappy with the color i made it with the food coloring.  I decided to add like 2 table spoons of soap in the lamp to see what would happen instead of the 1/2 table spoon i added before.. and it seems to snake more then it did prior alot more.   Before it would just be like 3 or 4 Huge blobs.  Now the blobs are snaking half way up the lamp, and then when they break they make a round blob but instead of going down as the blob they snake down and break apart as they go.

I kind like this better..  But i thought more surf keeps this from happening.. or did i have it backwords ?

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    Jon

    Cool.  Guess ill add more to my other grande 

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    kero48

    Good work, I find with my grandes that more surf works better than less. I believe in all my redone grandes with lava lamp wax, I used 37 to 40 mils of surf. Seems to do the trick just right.

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    Jon

    Well i dunno how many ML i used but it was like 2 table spoons of pure shampoo lol..  The green grande seems to take alot more.

    I put 2 in as well and it dtill does large blobs..  I just added 1 more table spoon and its stating to snake but still forms s blob and breaks off 1.4 to half way up.. So i added more just now..  Gonna see if it imprives.. but its alot of soap in there right now lol