SLIME has long been a kids’ play thing, particularly popular with those who like to play pranks. But now you can make fluffy slime with recipes that use little to no borax (a chemical compound ...

Is This Slime Safe? Borax is a popular ingredient for making slime, but beyond my own negative experience with stinky borax-based slime, there is cause for concern in using Borax to make slime.

Now that it's all mixed and resembles pudding, add the slime activator. Add a little at a time so you can calibrate how runny or hard you want to make it.

Safe ingredients to make gloopy slime include food products such as potato starch, sugar, food colouring, shaving foam, glitter and washing up liquid.