Growing salt is both a fun and interesting experience. You have a choice between making salt crystals from Epsom salt or table salt, which are known to form differently shaped crystals. Among the needed material for the making of salt crystals are charcoal Briquettes, glass bowls, food coloring, spoons, pencils, glass jars and paper towels. Paper and binder clips, cotton string, fishing weights, ½ c table, salt 1/2 c Epsom salts and 2 tbspc rock salt are some of the other required ingredients.
Table salt crystals
- The first step is to boil water amounting to 1c.
- Pour the water into a jar, preferably glass.
- Stir the salt in slowly and this should be done after every teaspoon. This step should not be rushed at all.
- The stirring should continue until there is no more salt dissolving but it is starting to collect itself at the jar’s bottom.
- Select a color to use for the crystals. Add two drops of the food coloring.
- One end of the piece of string should then be tied around a pencil and a paper clip tied onto the other side.
- Put the pencil on top of the jar to enable the string hang down. The used paper clip will almost be prevented from touching the jar’s bottom.
- The jar should be allowed to sit in a place that is devoid of disturbance.
- After about twenty four hours you should go and check and you will see crystals that will have formed onto the paper clip in cubic shapes.
Epsom Salt Crystals
- The steps to take for making salt crystals from Epsom salt are the same ones up to the fourth one. The only difference at this stage however is that one should use bowl made of glass in place of a glass jar.
- The fifth step is to add food coloring onto 2 charcoal briquettes.
- The charcoal briquettes should then be placed in the bowl’s bottom.
- Let the bowl suit somewhere with no disturbance. If there is any disturbance it might interfere with the final product at the end of the procedure.
- Check after a duration of five days and there will be crystals growing and their shape is that of prisms.
If you follow the above steps in a systematic way and use the right ingredients it is very difficult to go wrong while growing salt crystals. Use of color is optional but for them to be more beautiful one should include color.