FIC: Time Lord Science
Here's one of the ficathon fics! One of my recipient's requests was Ten as a dad, and since I've only written that, oh, three times already, I figured one more wouldn't hurt.
Title: Time Lord Science
Fandom Doctor Who (2005)
Pairing: Ten/Rose; OC
Rating: G
Spoilers: If you've seen through series two, you're fine.
Beta: thistlerose
Summary: The Doctor runs a few science experiments on the TARDIS with a small assistant.
A/N: This is baby/kid!fic, so if that qualifies as a warning for you, there you go. :) You can also assume there's been a prior Doctor/Rose reunion. Also, yes, you can do all of the experiments the Doctor does right in your very own kitchen. (Bathtubs not recommended. :)) Recipes and ingredients for each are listed at the end of the fic. I couldn't have done it without thistlerose. Thank you!
i. carbonation
"Mine's not doing anything," Rose said, peering intently at her bottle and flicking it occasionally with her fingers.
"Oh, come on, Rose. It's gotta be -" The Doctor walked over to her side of the table, whipped on his specs, and bent to look at her bottle at eye level. "Well. It seems like it's not working." He paused while Rose gave him an 'I told you so' look. "Maybe a little more club soda will help," he said, topping off her plastic bottle with more soda.
After a couple of moments, the three raisins in Rose's bottle started to float toward the top of the bottle, carried by the carbonation in the soda.
"Ah-ha!" the Doctor said triumphantly, punching the air. Rose grinned delightedly at him.
"Hey, Dad," a small voice called from the other side of the table. "How many raisins can I put in?"
"Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake," the Doctor said, rushing to the other side of the table where his five-year-old son had already packed an uncountable number of raisins into his plastic bottle. "Don't put too many in there! Otherwise the bubbles can't do their magic."
"Magic?" Jake asked, taking his hand out of the bowl of raisins.
"Well, technically carbonation. Carbonation is when air gets pumped into the liquid."
"And it makes the bubbles?" Jake asked.
"That's right, my boy!" the Doctor said, and Jake beamed. "And the bubbles, or the air, are what make the raisins float up and down."
"It pushes them," Jake said.
"Exactly!" The Doctor bent to examine Jake's bottle again. "Though - "
"What?"
"Well, we could see how many raisins it takes before the carbonation stops pushing the raisins up."
"Can we?"
"I don't see why not," the Doctor said, pulling the bowl of raisins toward him.
Identical grins lit up the two faces, and Rose grabbed a handful of raisins, too.
ii. surface tension
"Okay, Jake, more pepper!"
"Got it!" Jake shouted. He kept shaking and shaking and shaking the pepper pot over the big basin of water the Doctor had prepared.
"Shake, shake, shake . . . shake shake shake," the Doctor said, dancing around the basin over to Jake's side.
"Shaking!" Jake said again.
"Okay . . . and now . . . stop shaking!"
Jake's hands froze over the basin.
"Good! Now, you can put down the pepper and come look." The Doctor gestured with one hand, and then leaned over the basin to look at the top of the water. His son mimicked the gesture, and they kneeled in front of the basin for a while, just listening to the water ripple and watching the pepper floating on top.
"Dad?"
"Yes?"
"Is this it?" Jake asked, lifting his face to look at the Doctor.
"Oh, no! No! Nopety, nope, nope." The Doctor grinned. "Do you see how the pepper is floating on top of the water?"
Jake nodded.
"That's because of surface tension. The top of the water has lots and lots of tiny molecules that sort of sit on top of the water."
"Like skin?" Jake asked.
"Yes. Almost like that. That's how the pepper is able to float, why it doesn't sink; it stays on top of the water because of surface tension."
"Okay."
"Right." The Doctor nodded.
"Is that it?" Jake asked.
"Nope!" The Doctor picked up a small bowl with dish soap in it. "Here, put the tip of your finger in the soap."
Jake did as requested, his finger dripping with soap by the time he was done.
"Now, take you finger and touch the pepper and see what happens." The Doctor sat back on his heels as Jake slowly dipped his finger toward the water. As his finger came close to the pepper, all of the pepper near his finger rushed away. Delighted, Jake laughed, causing the Doctor to smile happily.
"The pepper runs away!" Jake said, trying it again by putting his finger in a different spot in the bin. Again, the pepper rushed away from his finger.
"Yes! That's because the soap breaks the surface tension of the water. So the pepper scatters to where there is surface tension."
"This is so cool," Jake said, scooting his finger in a circle, causing the pepper to keep whirling around him.
"It is pretty cool," the Doctor replied, the racing pepper being the least cool thing in the room to him at the moment, especially when Jake looked up at him and smiled again.
iii. density
"Okay, now. The first thing is . . . you cannot tell your mother that we took her shampoo."
"Okay," Jake said.
"I'm serious, here. If she knew we took it, she'd go mad on us. So she can never know," the Doctor said.
"Never ever," Jake swore.
"Great. Now that that's settled . . . " the Doctor took the lid off the shampoo and sat down on the console room floor next to Jake. He held up a clear plastic cup.
"Cup."
"Cup," Jake repeated.
"Shampoo."
"Shampoo." Jake nodded. "I won't tell Mum."
"Good man," the Doctor said. "I also have blue dish soap, regular cooking oil, and water I colored green. Oh. And I might have gotten the oil from your gran's kitchen, so you can't tell her about that either."
"Check," Jake said. "I don't know where the oil came from."
The Doctor paused. "Should I be worried that you lie so easily and so well?"
Jake shook his head. "Nope."
"Yeah, I'll take your word on that for now," the Doctor said thoughtfully. "Anyway. Let's pour some of each liquid into the cup."
Jake took the colored water and started in eagerly until he had poured some of each ingredient into the cup. It took a minute, but soon the liquids started separating out, so that there was a clear section of pink, a clear section of blue, a clear section of yellow and a clear section of green. Jake peered into the cup. "Why didn't they stay mixed up?"
The Doctor grinned. "Density!"
"Density?"
"Density. How dense a substance is, is kind of like - how thick it is, how heavy. So the liquids that have the most density sink the bottom, and the liquids with the least density rise to the top."
Jake looked at the cup again. "Huh."
"Indeed," the Doctor said.
"Can we do it again?"
The Doctor scratched his chin thoughtfully. "We'll need more shampoo."
Jake frowned. "I know where Mum keeps an extra bottle."
"Okay, but if she finds it's missing, we blame the TARDIS," the Doctor answered.
"Deal," Jake said, getting up and heading toward the back of the TARDIS in pursuit of more shampoo.
iv. non-newtonian fluid
"Okay. We're ready to add the Borax mixture," the Doctor said, rolling up his sleeves.
"Can I do it?" Jake asked.
"Yes, but just a little at a time while I stir. If it goes in too fast, it'll get too wet and thin and liquidy."
Jake nodded. He slowly started to add the contents of the basin he was holding, while the Doctor stirred with his hands.
"Okay . . . almost there . . . stop!" the Doctor said, getting up from his knees in front of the bathtub to check the consistency from a distance. After a moment, he pointed. "And that, my boy, is flubber!"
"Can I touch it?"
"Go for it!" the Doctor said, getting back down on his knees by the tub and putting his hands back in. "Touch it, play with it, rub it around, make it into a ball, whatever you want!"
"It's squishy!" Jake laughed.
The Doctor laughed, too. "I know! Feel it - when it's in your hand, it feels like a liquid, right?"
Jake nodded.
"And when you touch it while it's in the tub, or roll it into a ball or something, it feels more solid."
Jake nodded again, rolling a small ball in his hand.
"That's what makes it flubber! It has the properties of both a solid and a liquid."
"At the same time?" Jake threw the ball he'd made against the bathroom wall and it hit the tile with a satisfying smack.
"Yep. Non-newtonian fluid." The Doctor stretched the syllables out as far as they would go, and then grinned. He threw the flubber he had in his hand against the wall, too and laughed.
Jake looked at him speculatively.
"No, no . . . okay, but not the tie," the Doctor granted, and Jake fired, flubber landing on the Doctor's shirt with a wet pop.
Soon the Doctor and Jake were engaged in an all out flubber battle - and Jake was clearly winning; he was faster, even with the Doctor's enthusiasm.
Suddenly the bathroom door swung open, and they both turned to see Rose standing in the doorway, her mouth slightly open. "What in the world?" she asked, clad in a purple bathrobe, clearly prepared to take a bath.
Jake and the Doctor looked at each other. "It's . . . flubber," the Doctor explained.
"In the bathtub?"
"I wanted to make a big batch?" the Doctor offered.
"Doctor, can't you limit your experiments to the kitchen? I was just -" Suddenly a large piece of flubber landed in Rose's hair and started to ooze down.
"Oh, look, it looks like a liquid again in her hair!" Jake observed.
Rose's lips thinned.
"He did it!" Jake protested, pointing at his father.
"Jake?"
"Yes, Mum?"
"Can you hand me some of that?"
"Sure." Jake reached into the tub and took a handful of flubber, which he then transferred to the hand Rose was holding out.
"Thank you, Jake," Rose said.
"You're welcome," Jake answered, just as Rose hauled back and landed the flubber square on the Doctor's tie.
For a minute the Doctor looked down in disbelief at his tie before looking back up at Rose. "Oh, this is war now," he said, a gleam in his eye.
"You're on," Rose said, diving toward the tub.
In the end, with some crucial assistance from Jake at just the right moment, Rose won.
v. vocabulary
"Raxa," the Doctor started.
"Raxa," Jake repeated.
"Cori."
"Cori."
"Co."
"Co."
"Falla."
"Falla."
"Patorious."
"Patorious," Jake finished, his mouth twisting slightly around the syllables.
"Raxacoricofallapatorious," the Doctor said.
"Raxacoricofallapatorious," Jake repeated slowly.
"Yes!" The Doctor grinned and crushed the boy in a hug. When he let go, he was still beaming.
"Okay, let's try - satellite . . ."
"Satellite," Jake repeated.
"Five."
"Five." Jake paused. "That's an easy one, Dad."
The Doctor tugged his earlobe. "I suppose. Here's another easy one: Bad Wolf."
Jake smiled but still repeated, "Bad Wolf."
Rose, who was sitting on one of the jump seats on the other side of the console, looked up. "There's another important one, Doctor," she said softly.
The Doctor nodded, but didn't speak for a while.
"What? What is it?" Jake asked, confused and excited.
Finally the Doctor looked up from his lap, then to Rose, who was regarding him with a compassionate gaze. Then he looked at his son.
"Gallifrey," he said softly.
Jake was quiet for a minute, as if trying to work the word out before he attempted pronouncing it. "Gallifrey," he said softly, caught up in the restrained emotion of his parents.
The Doctor nodded. "Gallifrey," he said, and once again he pulled Jake into a hug. "Gallifrey."
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Science Experiments
1. Dancing Raisins
For this one, you need clear bottles (glass or plastic, though plastic is safer - like empty twenty oz. water or soda bottles), club soda or Sprite (a clear carbonated beverage) and raisins.
Fill the bottle up about ¾ of the way with club soda. Then add a couple of raisins. The carbonation in the soda will push the raisins up and down the bottle.
2. Runaway Pepper
You need a bowl, some water, some pepper and some dish soap. If you'd like, you can use toothpicks instead of your finger with the soap. :) Sprinkle pepper on top of the water, then dip your finger or toothpick into the dish soap. The soap breaks the surface tension of the water, and the pepper scatters out of the way onto stable surface tension.
3. Rainbow Layers
You'll need plastic cups, colored water (green works because it's easy to see), dish soap (blue or whatever color you'll be able to see), cooking oil and pink shampoo (or, again, any color that will be distinct when the items separate).
Pour the ingredients into a cup, one at a time and in any order. They'll eventually separate out. You can even do it again, pouring the items into the cup in a different order, to see if they separate out the same way. (They always will because of the density principle.)
4. Flubber
You'll need 5TBS of Borax, 2 cups of white glue, 3 ½ cups of water, 2 mixing bowls, 1 small bowl, wooden spoon, measuring cups and spoons.
Mix 1 ½ cups of water and 2 cups of glue in a big bowl.
If you want to add color, add liquid watercolor or food coloring if you'd like yours to be colored.
In your smaller bowl, mix together the remaining 2 cups of water and the 5 TBS of Borax. After it's dissolved, pour the Borax mixture slowly and a little at a time into the glue and water mixture and watch it begin to coagulate. Keep pouring (slowly) and mixing at the same time until you create a big flubber ball.
It will stain clothes and stick in hair, so actual flubber fights are not recommended. :) However, vinegar will remove it from clothing, carpet and upholstery. Mayonnaise works to get it out of hair.
Title: Time Lord Science
Fandom Doctor Who (2005)
Pairing: Ten/Rose; OC
Rating: G
Spoilers: If you've seen through series two, you're fine.
Beta: thistlerose
Summary: The Doctor runs a few science experiments on the TARDIS with a small assistant.
A/N: This is baby/kid!fic, so if that qualifies as a warning for you, there you go. :) You can also assume there's been a prior Doctor/Rose reunion. Also, yes, you can do all of the experiments the Doctor does right in your very own kitchen. (Bathtubs not recommended. :)) Recipes and ingredients for each are listed at the end of the fic. I couldn't have done it without thistlerose. Thank you!
i. carbonation
"Mine's not doing anything," Rose said, peering intently at her bottle and flicking it occasionally with her fingers.
"Oh, come on, Rose. It's gotta be -" The Doctor walked over to her side of the table, whipped on his specs, and bent to look at her bottle at eye level. "Well. It seems like it's not working." He paused while Rose gave him an 'I told you so' look. "Maybe a little more club soda will help," he said, topping off her plastic bottle with more soda.
After a couple of moments, the three raisins in Rose's bottle started to float toward the top of the bottle, carried by the carbonation in the soda.
"Ah-ha!" the Doctor said triumphantly, punching the air. Rose grinned delightedly at him.
"Hey, Dad," a small voice called from the other side of the table. "How many raisins can I put in?"
"Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake," the Doctor said, rushing to the other side of the table where his five-year-old son had already packed an uncountable number of raisins into his plastic bottle. "Don't put too many in there! Otherwise the bubbles can't do their magic."
"Magic?" Jake asked, taking his hand out of the bowl of raisins.
"Well, technically carbonation. Carbonation is when air gets pumped into the liquid."
"And it makes the bubbles?" Jake asked.
"That's right, my boy!" the Doctor said, and Jake beamed. "And the bubbles, or the air, are what make the raisins float up and down."
"It pushes them," Jake said.
"Exactly!" The Doctor bent to examine Jake's bottle again. "Though - "
"What?"
"Well, we could see how many raisins it takes before the carbonation stops pushing the raisins up."
"Can we?"
"I don't see why not," the Doctor said, pulling the bowl of raisins toward him.
Identical grins lit up the two faces, and Rose grabbed a handful of raisins, too.
ii. surface tension
"Okay, Jake, more pepper!"
"Got it!" Jake shouted. He kept shaking and shaking and shaking the pepper pot over the big basin of water the Doctor had prepared.
"Shake, shake, shake . . . shake shake shake," the Doctor said, dancing around the basin over to Jake's side.
"Shaking!" Jake said again.
"Okay . . . and now . . . stop shaking!"
Jake's hands froze over the basin.
"Good! Now, you can put down the pepper and come look." The Doctor gestured with one hand, and then leaned over the basin to look at the top of the water. His son mimicked the gesture, and they kneeled in front of the basin for a while, just listening to the water ripple and watching the pepper floating on top.
"Dad?"
"Yes?"
"Is this it?" Jake asked, lifting his face to look at the Doctor.
"Oh, no! No! Nopety, nope, nope." The Doctor grinned. "Do you see how the pepper is floating on top of the water?"
Jake nodded.
"That's because of surface tension. The top of the water has lots and lots of tiny molecules that sort of sit on top of the water."
"Like skin?" Jake asked.
"Yes. Almost like that. That's how the pepper is able to float, why it doesn't sink; it stays on top of the water because of surface tension."
"Okay."
"Right." The Doctor nodded.
"Is that it?" Jake asked.
"Nope!" The Doctor picked up a small bowl with dish soap in it. "Here, put the tip of your finger in the soap."
Jake did as requested, his finger dripping with soap by the time he was done.
"Now, take you finger and touch the pepper and see what happens." The Doctor sat back on his heels as Jake slowly dipped his finger toward the water. As his finger came close to the pepper, all of the pepper near his finger rushed away. Delighted, Jake laughed, causing the Doctor to smile happily.
"The pepper runs away!" Jake said, trying it again by putting his finger in a different spot in the bin. Again, the pepper rushed away from his finger.
"Yes! That's because the soap breaks the surface tension of the water. So the pepper scatters to where there is surface tension."
"This is so cool," Jake said, scooting his finger in a circle, causing the pepper to keep whirling around him.
"It is pretty cool," the Doctor replied, the racing pepper being the least cool thing in the room to him at the moment, especially when Jake looked up at him and smiled again.
iii. density
"Okay, now. The first thing is . . . you cannot tell your mother that we took her shampoo."
"Okay," Jake said.
"I'm serious, here. If she knew we took it, she'd go mad on us. So she can never know," the Doctor said.
"Never ever," Jake swore.
"Great. Now that that's settled . . . " the Doctor took the lid off the shampoo and sat down on the console room floor next to Jake. He held up a clear plastic cup.
"Cup."
"Cup," Jake repeated.
"Shampoo."
"Shampoo." Jake nodded. "I won't tell Mum."
"Good man," the Doctor said. "I also have blue dish soap, regular cooking oil, and water I colored green. Oh. And I might have gotten the oil from your gran's kitchen, so you can't tell her about that either."
"Check," Jake said. "I don't know where the oil came from."
The Doctor paused. "Should I be worried that you lie so easily and so well?"
Jake shook his head. "Nope."
"Yeah, I'll take your word on that for now," the Doctor said thoughtfully. "Anyway. Let's pour some of each liquid into the cup."
Jake took the colored water and started in eagerly until he had poured some of each ingredient into the cup. It took a minute, but soon the liquids started separating out, so that there was a clear section of pink, a clear section of blue, a clear section of yellow and a clear section of green. Jake peered into the cup. "Why didn't they stay mixed up?"
The Doctor grinned. "Density!"
"Density?"
"Density. How dense a substance is, is kind of like - how thick it is, how heavy. So the liquids that have the most density sink the bottom, and the liquids with the least density rise to the top."
Jake looked at the cup again. "Huh."
"Indeed," the Doctor said.
"Can we do it again?"
The Doctor scratched his chin thoughtfully. "We'll need more shampoo."
Jake frowned. "I know where Mum keeps an extra bottle."
"Okay, but if she finds it's missing, we blame the TARDIS," the Doctor answered.
"Deal," Jake said, getting up and heading toward the back of the TARDIS in pursuit of more shampoo.
iv. non-newtonian fluid
"Okay. We're ready to add the Borax mixture," the Doctor said, rolling up his sleeves.
"Can I do it?" Jake asked.
"Yes, but just a little at a time while I stir. If it goes in too fast, it'll get too wet and thin and liquidy."
Jake nodded. He slowly started to add the contents of the basin he was holding, while the Doctor stirred with his hands.
"Okay . . . almost there . . . stop!" the Doctor said, getting up from his knees in front of the bathtub to check the consistency from a distance. After a moment, he pointed. "And that, my boy, is flubber!"
"Can I touch it?"
"Go for it!" the Doctor said, getting back down on his knees by the tub and putting his hands back in. "Touch it, play with it, rub it around, make it into a ball, whatever you want!"
"It's squishy!" Jake laughed.
The Doctor laughed, too. "I know! Feel it - when it's in your hand, it feels like a liquid, right?"
Jake nodded.
"And when you touch it while it's in the tub, or roll it into a ball or something, it feels more solid."
Jake nodded again, rolling a small ball in his hand.
"That's what makes it flubber! It has the properties of both a solid and a liquid."
"At the same time?" Jake threw the ball he'd made against the bathroom wall and it hit the tile with a satisfying smack.
"Yep. Non-newtonian fluid." The Doctor stretched the syllables out as far as they would go, and then grinned. He threw the flubber he had in his hand against the wall, too and laughed.
Jake looked at him speculatively.
"No, no . . . okay, but not the tie," the Doctor granted, and Jake fired, flubber landing on the Doctor's shirt with a wet pop.
Soon the Doctor and Jake were engaged in an all out flubber battle - and Jake was clearly winning; he was faster, even with the Doctor's enthusiasm.
Suddenly the bathroom door swung open, and they both turned to see Rose standing in the doorway, her mouth slightly open. "What in the world?" she asked, clad in a purple bathrobe, clearly prepared to take a bath.
Jake and the Doctor looked at each other. "It's . . . flubber," the Doctor explained.
"In the bathtub?"
"I wanted to make a big batch?" the Doctor offered.
"Doctor, can't you limit your experiments to the kitchen? I was just -" Suddenly a large piece of flubber landed in Rose's hair and started to ooze down.
"Oh, look, it looks like a liquid again in her hair!" Jake observed.
Rose's lips thinned.
"He did it!" Jake protested, pointing at his father.
"Jake?"
"Yes, Mum?"
"Can you hand me some of that?"
"Sure." Jake reached into the tub and took a handful of flubber, which he then transferred to the hand Rose was holding out.
"Thank you, Jake," Rose said.
"You're welcome," Jake answered, just as Rose hauled back and landed the flubber square on the Doctor's tie.
For a minute the Doctor looked down in disbelief at his tie before looking back up at Rose. "Oh, this is war now," he said, a gleam in his eye.
"You're on," Rose said, diving toward the tub.
In the end, with some crucial assistance from Jake at just the right moment, Rose won.
v. vocabulary
"Raxa," the Doctor started.
"Raxa," Jake repeated.
"Cori."
"Cori."
"Co."
"Co."
"Falla."
"Falla."
"Patorious."
"Patorious," Jake finished, his mouth twisting slightly around the syllables.
"Raxacoricofallapatorious," the Doctor said.
"Raxacoricofallapatorious," Jake repeated slowly.
"Yes!" The Doctor grinned and crushed the boy in a hug. When he let go, he was still beaming.
"Okay, let's try - satellite . . ."
"Satellite," Jake repeated.
"Five."
"Five." Jake paused. "That's an easy one, Dad."
The Doctor tugged his earlobe. "I suppose. Here's another easy one: Bad Wolf."
Jake smiled but still repeated, "Bad Wolf."
Rose, who was sitting on one of the jump seats on the other side of the console, looked up. "There's another important one, Doctor," she said softly.
The Doctor nodded, but didn't speak for a while.
"What? What is it?" Jake asked, confused and excited.
Finally the Doctor looked up from his lap, then to Rose, who was regarding him with a compassionate gaze. Then he looked at his son.
"Gallifrey," he said softly.
Jake was quiet for a minute, as if trying to work the word out before he attempted pronouncing it. "Gallifrey," he said softly, caught up in the restrained emotion of his parents.
The Doctor nodded. "Gallifrey," he said, and once again he pulled Jake into a hug. "Gallifrey."
------
Science Experiments
1. Dancing Raisins
For this one, you need clear bottles (glass or plastic, though plastic is safer - like empty twenty oz. water or soda bottles), club soda or Sprite (a clear carbonated beverage) and raisins.
Fill the bottle up about ¾ of the way with club soda. Then add a couple of raisins. The carbonation in the soda will push the raisins up and down the bottle.
2. Runaway Pepper
You need a bowl, some water, some pepper and some dish soap. If you'd like, you can use toothpicks instead of your finger with the soap. :) Sprinkle pepper on top of the water, then dip your finger or toothpick into the dish soap. The soap breaks the surface tension of the water, and the pepper scatters out of the way onto stable surface tension.
3. Rainbow Layers
You'll need plastic cups, colored water (green works because it's easy to see), dish soap (blue or whatever color you'll be able to see), cooking oil and pink shampoo (or, again, any color that will be distinct when the items separate).
Pour the ingredients into a cup, one at a time and in any order. They'll eventually separate out. You can even do it again, pouring the items into the cup in a different order, to see if they separate out the same way. (They always will because of the density principle.)
4. Flubber
You'll need 5TBS of Borax, 2 cups of white glue, 3 ½ cups of water, 2 mixing bowls, 1 small bowl, wooden spoon, measuring cups and spoons.
Mix 1 ½ cups of water and 2 cups of glue in a big bowl.
If you want to add color, add liquid watercolor or food coloring if you'd like yours to be colored.
In your smaller bowl, mix together the remaining 2 cups of water and the 5 TBS of Borax. After it's dissolved, pour the Borax mixture slowly and a little at a time into the glue and water mixture and watch it begin to coagulate. Keep pouring (slowly) and mixing at the same time until you create a big flubber ball.
It will stain clothes and stick in hair, so actual flubber fights are not recommended. :) However, vinegar will remove it from clothing, carpet and upholstery. Mayonnaise works to get it out of hair.