Has anyone used this stuff? Wondering how many boxes you need to fill the bath? Seen a few places selling it just now in green but unsure if it will be any good?
What is is called? Do you have a link or picture of the packaging? If it's slube, I can say it's pretty good. Candy Custard and Penny Banks have used it in videos, and they sponsored an event for the site a couple years ago.
Slime Baff is sodium polyacrylamide. The other product from the same company (Gelli Baff) is sodium polyacrylate. The difference is that Gelli Baff (polyacrylate) is super-absorbant water crystals that produce a kind of slush. It's the same stuff you can find marketed as "instant snow." With Gelli Baff, you can add salt to return it to a drain-safe consistency - easy! I've used 6-8 packets of Gelli Baff in a bath to reach my desired thickness.
Slime Baff, by comparison, is much more... slimy. The sodium polyacrylamide absorbs water and becomes a very stringy gel-like consistency. Very slippery on the bottom of a tub! Here's the main difference... unlike Gelli Baff, Slime Baff doesn't come with any salt dissolver. Salt only does a little bit to break down Slime Baff. If you want a thick slimy consistency, that means the Slime Baff will be very highly concentrated - so in order to make it safe for drain disposal you'll have to just keep adding tons of water and mixing around the drain to thin it out. Cleanup can also be more of an ordeal with Slime Baff. It takes some scrubbing to get all the slimy film off of the skin.
In my diy mudpit, I'm filling up a 275-gallon IBC water tote with a mixture of bentonite clay and sodium polyacrylamide. In the agricultural world, you can find the polyacrylamide as "PAM" - often used for seeding (I got a 55lb bag!). And if you're curious about bentonite clay, you can find some good bulk prices through companies specializing in well-drilling equipment.
Good luck! One packet of Slime Baff will get you some mildly slippery water. If you want real slime, plan on using multiple packets... and prepare yourself for a painstaking cleanup.
Knickerslopperglory said: If you mix it with shaving foam, it becomes very sticky and stringy!
Which "it" are you referring to? Several things have been mentioned in the thread and I'm genuinely curious which one makes that stringy stuff in the pics?
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