Guy mixes chemicals up to make a pink homemade glowstick in a bottle jar. Chemsitry, experiment, science, white gloves, wood table. I made my own glowstick. By mixing the following chemicals you get a mixture which can glow up to several hours. Solution 1: TCPO, sodium acetate and a fluorescent dye (Rhodamine B in this case) in diethyl phthalate. Solution 2: Hydrogen peroxide. These are the exact chemicals which are used in commercial glowsticks. By changing the fluorescent dye you get different colors.