Frankensoap
I entered the kitchen after breakfast to find a new creation waiting for me.
This is none other than “Frankensoap”, the work of my ten year-old daughter’s imagination and skilled hands.
There is never a dull moment in my home. The kids have the most fun when I don’t know what they are doing.
The story behind this soap is as follows…for the first time in my life, I had to refill the liquid soap containers with bright orange gooey liquid soap.
This is because the store was out of the kind I usually buy the clear-bluish marine-ish smelling one that we all like.
Little did I know the choas this would cause.
The first picture above shows the kind of liquid soap that comes out foamy when dispensed. It is this way because it is more diluted than the kind in the second picture. The problem is that when you dilute the orange soap (to use it in the “foamy” containers) it turns an interesting color.
At least that’s what the kids say. Some of my kids are at that age where anything remotely yellow “looks like pee”. I would say they are “urine-phobic”, as the presence of urine (actually, anything that could possibly BE urine, even a puddle of water on the floor) causes them to flee screaming and yelling “Ewww! Yuck!!!” in every direction of the house as fast as possible.
The first time I refilled the one in the bathroom, the kids filed in one by one to ask me, “Mom what is that disgusting stuff on the counter in the soap dispenser?!”, or “Mom”, (in almost a whisper), is that what I think it is?”
“Uh, guys…It’s SOAP.”
Nevertheless, I could see their point, and agreed with them. SO, we came up with a solution – food coloring!
One drop of blue food coloring made the foamy yellow liquid a splendid turquoise color! Perfect. Problem solved!
However, I’m afraid the creator of this version of turquoise got the recipe wrong. And overdid the blue.
Therefore, we now have the above version of “Frankensoap” sitting by my kitchen sink. The good news is the overdose of blue doesn’t stain skin!
I gotta give them credit for trying to help…right?
