![]() ![]() However, borax is still a chemical and can cause harm. “It ought to be done with some adult supervision so that the borax is not being misused or used carelessly, but if it’s being used responsibly I think it’s not likely to pose any major concerns,” said Spaeth. Your typical Elmer’s wood glue (the white stuff we all used in grade school) is also pretty harmless. Borax, again, is generally considered pretty safe, but like boron, is also a skin and GI irritant. Many recipes call for glue, water, and borax, the colloquial term for sodium tetraborate, a boron-containing chemical compound. Homemade slimes, on the other hand, can be more problematic. All of the slimes with high boron content are available through major retailers Amazon and Walmart. The products named in the report include: Kangaroos Original Super Cool Slime, Kidsco Glow in The Dark Slime, and Toysmith Jupiter Juice Slime. “To keep kids safe, it may be necessary to limit boron content in children’s toys or, at least, explicitly label toys that are high in boron content,” the authors wrote. ![]() ![]() However, the United States does not have official safety standards for boron content in consumer products. In their annual Trouble In Toyland Report, the United States Public Interest Research Group warns that, of forty toys tested, six slime products contained “dangerously high” levels of boron, a mineral often used in in a variety of industrial and consumer products including detergents and fertilizers.Īccording to USPIRG, some of the toy slimes tested contained up to 4,700 ppm (parts per million) of boron - more than 15 times the allowance in toys of this kind in the European Union. A consumer advocacy group recently singled out toy slime as being potentially hazardous to children. ![]()
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