Home Made Lava Lamp

[Peter Lavelle]

Hey everyone, first post on here.
I know there are articles all over the web on making lava lamps, but could someone tell me what specific products they used to make the lava? It would be greatly appreciated. Also I am on my phone so it greatly limits my research abilities. I may hop on a computer and check out the chat.

Thanks,
Peter

[Peter Lavelle]

Oh, and Twitter might be an easy way of getting in touch with me. @TRSCP

[Dr. WHAT?!]

This is a good place to start http://www.oozinggoo.com/howto.html

[Peter Lavelle]

I have been looking through there, worked with what I had and now I have wax floating in the bottle, any quick solutions of what to add to get it to sink when cold?

[Erin]

Some surfactants include canning salt, dish soap and propylene glycol. Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that. 

[Peter Lavelle]

Will these help keep the wax down?

[Erin]

It all has to do with density. Anything that affects density will help the wax rise and sink. 

 

Here are some topics about surfactants:

http://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topic/search?q=surfactant

 

This is a recent thread discussing many kinds of surfactants:

http://oozinggoo.ning.com/forum/topics/all-the-kinds-of-surfactant

 

It's a trial-and-error thing for most. Add some of this, less of that. Dump and try again. :)

Peter Lavelle said:

Will these help keep the wax down?