Category: General

INGREDIENTS

• 1 Cup Hot Water
• 0.5 to 3 teaspoons Borax (Activator)
• 1 Cups White or Clear PVA (polyvinyl-acetate) Glue 
• 1 Cups Shaving Cream (add more as needed to increase fluffiness)
• Food Coloring – as Desired
• 2+ pumps Hand lotion – increases stretchiness

DIRECTIONS

1. Make Borax mix – activator:
   1. Determine the desired mix from the chart

Desired Result→	More Like Slime	More like Putty
Borax	0.5 Teaspoon	3 Teaspoons
Hot Water	1 Cup (8 oz)	1 Cup (8 oz)

1. Stir together until borax is fully dissolved. 
2. In a bowl, add glue, shaving cream and, if used, food coloring to a bowl. Mix thoroughly. 
3. Add borax mix to bowl SLOWLY (2 teaspoons initially, then 1-3 teaspoons at a time) and mix with spatula. 
   1. If slime is too sticky, add more Borax mix
   2. If your slime “rips” you have too much Borax. Try adding lotion
   3. Knead the slime thoroughly before you add more borax!
4. Add lotion – 2 pumps at a time. You might need a lot – 10-20 pumps!
5. When it is the right consistency, add any special additions: glitter, glow powder or pigments. 

NOTES: 

• Contact lens solution is not needed if you have Borax. If you use saline solution it must contain sodium borate and boric acid
• Cornstarch is NOT an activator. Liquid starch (which cannot be made at home) is. 
• Baking soda or cornstarch can be used to thicken the slime. 
• The borate ions in the slime activators (sodium borate, borax powder, or boric acid) mix with the PVA (polyvinyl acetate) glue and forms this cool stretchy substance. This is called cross-linking! The glue is a polymer and is made up of long, repeating, and identical strands or molecules. These molecules with flow past one another keeping the glue in a liquid state. Until you add the borate ions to the mixture,  and it then starts to connect these long strands together. They begin to tangle and mix until the substance is less like the liquid you started with and thicker and rubbery like slime! Slime is a polymer.
• Clear glue is less stretchy over time and more prone to breaking.
• clear glue requires a bit less activator with than with white glue.