Soap Bubble Machine — 'It's the perfect accessory for a relaxing bath'

Imagine how much fun your cat will have chasing the bubbles around the bathroom.

Might not be too relaxing for you, though.

From the website:

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'Happy Savon' Soap Bubble-Making Machine

This white plastic whale automatically makes soap bubbles.

It's the perfect accessory for a relaxing bath.

There's nothing better than getting home after a long day at work and taking a nice, hot bath.

Imagine how much nicer it would be if you could add soap bubbles to the bath salts and soap?

Well, this is easy to do with this soap bubble-making machine.

The device is made out of white plastic and shaped like a whale.

Its design is simple and it easily adapts to fit in with any bathroom’s decor.

There are suction cups underneath the base so you can stick it on any horizontal surface.

That way you’ll avoid splashing water all over the machine or having it fall down and break.

To get started, just follow these simple instructions:

1. Take off the lid and fill the machine with liquid bubble-making soap. There are two ways to prepare bubble-making soap:

A.  One way is easy to make and has a very nice scent. The ingredients used are bath gel or shampoo and water (preferably hot water so the soap will dissolve more easily). You have to mix these ingredients together without generating foam. The mix should have a proportion of 1 part gel to 6 parts water. Just to give you an idea: this means you use a teaspoonful of gel or shampoo for every two large spoonfuls of water. It’s important that you don’t let the mixture generate foam inside the device or else it won’t work.

B. A second way. The ingredients are: dishwashing detergent, PVA starch (polyvinyl alcohol) and water. Mix the three ingredients together, being careful not to generate foam. The proportions are 1 part dishwashing detergent to 5 parts starch and 10 parts water.

Note that you can also add aromatic oils to create a more original scent, although not all oils will work and you have to be careful how much oil you add to the mix.

2. Put the lid back on and hit the button on the whale’s tail.

3. The soap bubbles will start floating out from the blowhole on the whale’s back. The machine makes two types of soap bubbles: on "Calm Mode" you get large, slow soap bubbles; on "Fun Mode" you get lots of small soap bubbles.

Requires AAA batteries (not included).

167 x 100 x 88mm (6.6" x 4" x 3.5").

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Note: "Enclosed instructions only in Japanese language."

$34.49 (bathtub — and bathroom — not included).

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