Elephant toothpaste is a chemical reaction of mixing dry yeast, hydrogen peroxide, and a few other substances. When these items are mixed together, the substance will foam up and flow over the side of the container its in. Mckenzie Schueler helped me with this experiment. I was interested in this topic because I had seen it all over social media and I wanted to see if it actually worked. I was also interested in this because I want to know more about chemical reactions. The purpose of this experiment is to see which brand of laundry detergent causes the experiment to foam up the most. In the beginning I thought that one of the major laundry detergent brands, such as Dawn, would have the best reaction. I thought this because if it is a popular detergent, it must have a good chemical base. This experiment is trying to see which brand of detergent will cause the biggest reaction. Some words that we had to know to conduct this experiment were, dry yeast, hydrated yeast cells and hydrogen peroxide, liquid with strong oxidizing properties. Also we had to…show more content… To do this experiment you will need hydrogen peroxide (3% is safer and easier to purchase), five different brands of laundry detergent, warm water, active dry yeast, food coloring (just for fun), and two cups and something to mix with. To do this experiment first you pour one half of a cup of hydrogen peroxide into a cup and add a good squirt of detergent and mix. After mixed add some food coloring into the same cup (optional). In a different cup, mix three tablespoons of warm water and add one tablespoon of active dry yeast to that and mix. Finally, add the second cup into the first one and watch. Before we did this experiment, I thought that there would be one detergent that showed way better results than all the others. I also thought that there would be at least one detergent that would not do
