Making slime with few ingredients

Slime is something extremely useless but quite fun and stress-relieving for some people. I particularly love it, although I've only had one in my life. Here, buying slime isn't really a priority, and if you buy a cheap one, it's horrible, so I wanted to make my own slime with my son to see if we could do it with just a few ingredients. I've always seen how it's made, but they usually use things I don't have on hand, so I did some research on how I could make it without so many ingredients.

To make this slime, I tried several things I saw on the internet separately, but finally, by combining them all, I managed to make a slime with a watery texture. I used: white glue, water, liquid dish soap, laundry detergent, contact lens solution (I don't really know if this ingredient did anything or not, I'll tell you why later), and finally paint.

I searched online for how to do it without BORAX, which I honestly have no idea what it is, but apparently it's used to make slime. The internet recommended using contact lens solution and baking soda, but I didn't have any baking soda, so I searched for a replacement and was told to try liquid laundry detergent. I only had powdered soap, so I did a little test. I added glue and water. I mixed it a little, then added the contact lens solution, and honestly, I didn't see any difference. However, when I added dish soap and powdered laundry detergent, the mixture turned into a thick paste (because I added too much soap). That's when I decided to do exactly the same thing but in a larger container with more glue.

After mixing it thoroughly, it turned out great. It was a slime with a super smooth, watery texture. I added a little red paint (bad choice because now my slime looks like a placenta).

But my son loved the color, haha, so we decided to add some fuchsia glitter, and that improved the appearance a bit. It went from looking like a blood clot to looking like a dragon fruit.

I loved doing it and wanted to try again, this time using only dish soap, but no matter how much I mixed it, it didn't work. I had to add powdered soap again, and immediately this new slime began to form, so I was left wondering if it works with just powdered soap or if I have to mix powdered and liquid soap.... I didn't have much glue, so I couldn't make a third slime, but I painted this second one light blue and added silver glitter.

In the end, we mixed the two slimes because we wanted to see how they looked together, and it turned out to be a really pretty lilac color. We played with the slime all afternoon. The downside is that it dries out after a while, but if you add water and knead it, it becomes moldable again. I laughed a lot at how Tommy looked at us. He was curious, and I was even afraid that slime would accidentally fall on his hair, but everything turned out fine, and we had a great time playing with the slime. Now I need more glue to make lots more, haha.
