slime recipe without borax
Slime Recipes Without Borax
The typical homemade slime recipe ingredients are glue and sodium tetraborate, of which the latter acts as a cross-linking agent. If you have concerns about using this boron compound in making slime, you must try the recipe without borax.
- Cornstarch, 2 cups
- Water, 1 cup
- A dash of food coloring
- Add cornstarch in a mixing bowl and keep it ready.
- Pour 2 cups of water in a saucepan and heat it.
- When water becomes warm, remove the saucepan from heat.
- Gently pour warm water in a bowl, and stir in a dash of food coloring (or a few drops of liquid coloring).
- To this bowl containing colored water, add cornstarch slowly, while stirring continuously.
- By using warm water and constant stirring, you can avoid clump formation.
- If the concoction is runny, try adding more cornstarch.
- And if the consistency of slime is too thick, add some more warm water and stir, until you get a smooth slime.
- Cornflour, 1 cup
- Water, 1½ cups
- Flour, 1½ cups
- Food coloring
- This is a simple alteration to the above recipe.
- You can try this method for making a thicker goop.
- Take a mixing bowl, and mix together cornflour, ¾ cup water, and food coloring.
- Stir well, and transfer this semi liquid concoction in a saucepan.
- Heat this mixture over low heat setting.
- Add flour when the mixture is warm.
- Gently pour the remaining water into the saucepan, and stir well.
- Liquid starch, ½ cup
- White glue, 1 cup
- Food coloring of desired shade
- In a large mixing bowl, combine glue and food coloring.
- Add more food coloring to make a darker shade, as the resulting slime will lighten after adding liquid starch.
- Stir the mixture well.
- Following this, add liquid starch to the color glue.
- Mix well, and you will get a workable goop.