Dip Stix™ is our new Grab & Go Giant Bubble Kit.

You need three things to make giant bubbles:

1. A big bubble wand.
2. A big bubble formula.
3. A container to hold the mix.

Our Dip Stix™ Grab & Go Kit has all three inside a small 11”x4”x2” package!

The 4 ounces of Dip Stix™ Giant Bubble Mix (Our best big bubble mix yet!) is inside a Ziploc, heat sealed, pleated bottom container. Just zip the top open, add 1 quart of tap water and viola! You have a portable bubble bucket that re-seals after use!

Dip Stix™ Giant Bubble Mix works great right after mixing. You will have spectacular results when you let the solution “Age” overnight. (For best results, remove foam with a spoon. Big bubbles do not like foam).

The secret is in the formula.

Dip Stix™ bubbles are big, have extremely beautiful colors, and the big bubbles last an incredibly long time.

I really like how the new Dip Stix™ Mix performs. To give you an idea of the robust nature of this formula, take a look at this picture. Dip Stix bubble on ground with blades of grass sticking through it, yet it doesn’t pop! A Dip Stix™ bubble settles on the grass. Upon close inspection (Just click the picture for an enlarged view) you can observe blades of grass sticking through the bubble, yet the bubble hasn’t “Popped”. How cool is that?

Dip Stix™ Giant Bubble Mix is so incredible we made a video of all the tricks you can perform. With a little practice anyone can do these tricks and more. View video and purchase Dip Stix online.

Learn even more about Dip Stix™ and big bubbles by reading our blog:

1. Dip Stix Giant Bubble Mix
2. Top 11 secrets for creating record breaking big bubbles
3. 4 Fun Summertime Bubble Games
4. Bubble Troubles

The Pro Wand is the largest bubble wand we make, which means it creates the biggest bubbles. The Pro Wand was also the first big bubble wand we made. The smaller “Starter Wand” came second.

This blog is actually a sequel to beeboo® – How it all started. You see, beeboo® Big Bubble Mix was actually created first, and then we began manufacturing the wands. So here’s how this story goes:

The very first big bubble device I used was back in the early 1990’s or so. The device was referred to as The Bubble Thing and was invented by David Stein. The big bubble wand had a ribbon like loop attached to a long rod and a mechanism to open and close the bubble loop. I did some additional research on bubble wands and discovered Arthur Fulton and Kalvin Klundt, both of which had their own designs and patents on big bubble wands.

I was absolutely fascinated with the two handle design invented by Kalvin. I fashioned my own homemade version of his wand to further my experiments with our newly created beeboo® Big Bubble Mix. The patent was still valid, so of course we couldn’t manufacture and sell that particular wand design along with beeboo to make the big bubble kit we had always dreamed of, and suggested by Betty James, the “Slinky” lady!

In the late 1980’s the Galoob Toy Company had manufactured Kalvin’s two handle big bubble toy and marketed the product under the trade name of Dip Stix. They sold millions! Years passed, patents expired and Galoob was no longer in existence. I decided to call Kalvin Klundt, to discuss the possibility of manufacturing his wand design again, and co-market with beeboo. Even though the patent had expired, the toy was no longer being sold, and the original toy company was out of business, I thought it best as a gesture of good faith and personal respect to call Kalvin directly and discuss this potential. Kalvin is one of the most polite and gracious toy inventors I have ever known. His response to my request was: “No problem Dave that was 20 toys ago!”

Now we had our second product, a big bubble wand to go along with our big bubble concentrate. Up to this point, we had been selling just the big bubble mix. Once we began offering the wand and the mix as a package, sales began to increase. This proved that Betty James was correct; consumers want a quality experience that is easy, convenient and fun.

There are many attributes I enjoy about the two handle big bubble wand design. It’s definitely the most popular design among big bubble enthusiasts, as every world record bubble, since the first one was established, has been created using the two handle design. Two really big handles of course!

The main reason I like the two handle wand is how easy it is to create big bubbles. It’s really easy with either the beeboo® Pro Wand or the beeboo® Starter Wand.

The first step of course is to wet the super absorbent wicking material in your big bubble solution. Then, holding the tips together, lift them high into the air and with the breeze at your back.

The two simple steps for creating big bubbles are as follows:

OPEN

CLOSE

It’s that easy to use the two handle wand design! Of course the same technique is used with our smaller beeboo® Starter Wand, designed for beginners and youngsters.

This is a picture of one of our customers from Spain. Although our product age range is suggested to be six years old, this little girl is only four. She is using our beeboo® Big Bubble Starter Wand with marvelous results, at her very first attempt!

You may order your beeboo® Big Bubble Starter wand here, and your beeboo® Big Bubble Pro Wand here.

All beeboo® products are made in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA! Every product you purchase helps create and maintain jobs in America!

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:

· One bottle of beeboo®

· 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.