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Instead she mixes her batches with baking soda, contact lens solution and glue. Some children backed off production or began using protective gloves and masks. In March, in a widely reported incident, a Massachusetts girl i ncurred third-degree burns when using sodium borate to make slime. Slime.” Entries include crystal jelly, aromatic coffee and hot Cheetos slime, featuring real (though inedible) Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.īut enthusiasm for slime has been tempered by mishaps. slime kits and writing a recipe book: “Karina Garcia’s D.I.Y.
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She’s also capitalizing on the trend by developing a line of D.I.Y. There’s a screening room and a game room downstairs. Her slime studio overlooks a swimming pool, a hot tub and a construction site where she’s building a guesthouse. In March, she bought a six-bedroom house in Riverside, Calif. “There are times when it’s $200,000 in a really good month,” Ms. She works three or four days a week on videos and earns six figures per month, she said. The sponsorships range from $30,000 to $60,000. Her earnings come from corporate advertisers and sponsorship deals, from companies like Audible, Coca-Cola and Disney. To jazz up the color, scent and texture, slime-makers add glitter, food coloring, essential oils, baby oil, cornstarch and shaving cream. The standard slime ingredients are white school glue and the household cleaning detergent known as Borax, or sodium borate. YouTube is brimming with video tutorials, or “slime D.I.Y.s.” The most popular garner millions of views and attract lucrative advertising and sponsorship deals for their creators.Īlthough Nickelodeon’s parent company, Viacom, owns trademarks on a plethora of slime-related products, including “free-flowing gel,” clothing and books, the term slime is widely used among home producers, and Viacom typically doesn’t enforce its rights against them. The hashtag #slime appears on 3.5 million Instagram posts, and slime searches on Etsy have increased 9,000 percent since October, according to the company. Many post marketing videos on Instagram, where they can be seen poking, swirling and squishing globs of it. There’s a thriving nationwide market for slime, and the demand is met by children aged 8 to 12, teenagers and young adults, who sell it at school or online, often through Etsy. Like Goldie, some children have turned slime into a business.