Lava lamp creators are notoriously tight-lipped about their secret ingredients, but DIY lava lamps aren’t impossible. ... Watch some wild GoPro footage from the inside of a lava lamp here.

Katzel: Inside of a lava lamp, you've got wax, which is mostly paraffin wax. That's your lava. Jones: Paraffin wax is a common wax made from petroleum. You can often find it in candles and cosmetics.

Dolan Vickery teaches ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander how to make a DIY lava lamp Looking for a fun, hands-on activity you can do at home with just a few simple ingredients? In this video, we’ll ...

Inside Mathmos’ lava lamp factory. On the lava lamp’s 60th anniversary, we take a look at the Mathmos factory where the iconic design still bubbles into life. Sign up to our newsletter Newsletter; ...

Polymers that repel each other can spontaneously phase-separate inside artificial vesicles, like oils in a lava lamp. Interaction between droplets and the cell wall limits the size of the droplets and ...

A lava lamp uses the lightbulb — or in this instance the candle — inside the base to heat the wax (a process that can take about an hour) to the point where it forms stalagmite shapes, then ...