The most common questions I get regarding Extreme Bubbles, Inc, big bubbles or beeboo® Big Bubble Mix is: “How did you think of this?” This is a really good question and I hope to provide an informative explanation here.
Around or about 1990 I purchased my first big bubble wand. The device was in fact invented by David Stein. The big bubble wand was called The Bubble Thing. You can read more about David, his invention and the history of big bubbles here.
If I remember correctly, I paid about $15 dollars for this contraption, which included instructions on how to make your own homemade big bubble solution. Being a chemist, it was easy to follow the instructions verbatim. Once completed, my three children and I ventured outside with wild anticipation to discover a whole new world of excitement, giant bubbles!
Unfortunately, Proctor & Gamble had changed the formulas for JOY and Dawn dishwashing liquids about that time and the homemade big bubble solution didn’t work very well. As a matter of fact, it didn’t work at all. Being a water treatment chemist by education and vocation, I was determined to formulate a better big bubble mix. I am also considered to be a bit on the frugal side of life, and certainly didn’t want to waste the money I had invested in this new big bubble thing. Therefore I set out to make a better formula.
My test methods were quite crude at the time and consisted primarily of trial and error. I called it “Kitchen Chemistry”. I tried everything from dishwashing detergents, laundry detergents, bath soaps, Karo syrup, salt, cooking oils, you name it! Finally with diligence and a little luck I discovered a few additional additives that increased the performance of the big bubbles dramatically. The bubbles were not only huge, they had unbelievably beautiful colors and the big bubbles lasted an incredibly long time. The results were absolutely amazing!
Every time the kids and I would go outside to try a new formula, with results getting better and better with each attempt, the neighborhood residents, casual passersby and people even driving in their cars would always stop and say: Wow. Those are the biggest bubbles I’ve ever seen! Where can I buy that stuff?
You see, the secret is in the formula.
I had finally got my monies worth! My new mix (yet unnamed) worked extremely well in just about any type of weather conditions!
My first plan was to market our new big bubble mix, then called Xtreme Bubbles®, as a standalone product. It just so happened, that I knew Betty James. Her husband was the person who invented one of the world’s most popular toys “Slinky”. Her husband had passed away by this time and Betty was now running the company. Betty and I met for lunch to discuss various methods of marketing Xtreme Bubbles®. Trusting her experience and her judgment explicitly, I really wanted to know her thoughts.
Betty strongly suggested we needed to offer consumers the convenience of a “Kit”; one that contained both a big bubble mix as well as a big bubble wand, thereby making the process of creating big bubbles easy, convenient and fun. She was right. But now we had to come up with an idea for a big bubble wand. That will be another blog, relating to our beeboo® Big Bubble Pro Wand!
Suffice it to say, beeboo® Big Bubble Mix is an extremely robust formula, used by bubble artists, bubble entertainers, including Cirque du Soleil, and consumers on every continent in the world, except of course Antarctica.
beeboo® works very well as a refill for many bubble toys and big bubble toys, including bubble machines. beeboo® works great as a refill for the
Unbelievabubble big bubble sword
Big bubble swords sold at Target and Walmart
Mega Bubbles, and big bubble plastic hoops, of all sizes and shapes
including fish wands
Star wands and flower wands
Spin Master Big Bubbler and similar big bubble wand swords
Little Kids Bubble Twister, and many more types of bubble toys.
Bubble artists and bubble entertainers even mix beeboo® with other commercially available bubble solutions like Imperial Toys Miracle Bubbles, Super Miracle Bubbles, Mr. Bubbles sold by the old Tootsie Toy, Strombecker and Chemtoy companies (Which has now been sold and no longer made in the USA), Pustefix bubbles, Gazillion Bubbles, Fan Yang bubbles, Amazing Bubbles by Placo and Bubbelz distributed by Greenbrier International, Inc. By mixing beeboo® Big Bubble Mix and other commercially available, ready to use, small bubble solutions, you can create some very interesting effects with both large and small bubbles. It’s fun to experiment!
beeboo® is in fact, our very first product. The name has become synonymous with quality and performance around the world. Shop for beeboo® now:
· beeboo® big bubble Refill Pack, 4 bottles of beeboo® Big Bubble Mix
Each bottle of beeboo® Big Bubble Mix makes one gallon of solution. Simply add 14 cups of ordinary tap water and mix. Do not use bottled water or purified water.
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