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Thinking up new craft ideas for the summer, we figured creating some homemade slime would be pretty cool. The kids have never made homemade slime before and were excited to try it. There was only one issue: borax. we don’t know about you, but the only time we ever need borax is when it comes time to create slime. Borax comes in huge qualities, meaning that you’d need to make a lot of slime or store it for ages. We am not a fan of borax and do not use it for washing clothes or anything. So we started doing what any other person on the internet does; Googling for recipes that do not need borax.

It turns out, you can make slime with eye solution! After running out to the shops and picking up eye solution at Tesco’s, some glue , some bicarbonate of soda and food colouring, we figured everything was ready. When the kids came over, we dished out some bowl, divided up the glue and added everything together, allowing them to mix. After quite a bit of mixing, it became clear that instead of slime we’d created some sort of slightly sandy mixture of paint. Confused, we turned back to looking up what went wrong. The blogs we have read are actually US based, where they put – you guessed it! – borax in our eye solution. In the United Kingdom, the eye solution we purchased does not have borax in it, therefore the slime did not work.

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