I have a foaming hand soap dispenser and ran out of the soap, instead of buying more I thought I'd make it myself - and yep, it's very easy. Mix together 1 part soap with 5 parts warm water and shake vigorously to combine.
Any time something calls for a ratio like this one of 1:5 (meaning one part product, five parts water) you can figure out the quantities by adding the 2 numbers together to figure how many parts in total (in this case 1+5=6 parts total) . Find how many ounces your container will hold - I don't know how many ounces my dispenser is but let's make it easy and say it's 12 ounces. So divide 12 by 6 parts and it's 2 ounces per part. So to make the foaming soap you'll combine 2 ounces of soap with 10 ounces of water (for a total of 12 ounces). Note: 10 ounces of water is 2 ounces times 5 parts. Make sense?
You can use this formula no matter the size of container - let's do it with coffee. Now I have no idea how much coffee to water you would need but this is just an example of how to work ratios. If you have a jug that is 64oz. that you're filling with coffee and the recipe calls for a ration of 1:10 meaning 1 part product and 10 parts water, add the 2 numbers to get the total number of parts (in this case 1+10=11 parts total). Now divide the size of the jug by the number of parts (64÷11=5.818). So you would add 5.8 ounces of coffee and 58 ounces of water (I would round to nearest whole number and use 6 ounces coffee).
Hope I made this somewhat clear!! Math is not my strong suit LOL
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