March 19 A pile of ordinary white powder can be made into colorful crystal mud by adding water and liquid glue. Recently, it is quite popular with many primary and secondary school students. It is sold in small shops around the school, and many primary school students buy it for fun. But careful parents found that borax was in the materials needed for production. Recently, a 12-year-old pupil in Suqian was admitted to the hospital for eating borax poisoning by mistake. Parents encourage their children to enhance their hands-on ability and worry about the safety of this online celebrity product.
Pupils are keen on making "mucus"
This homemade crystal mud is also called "slime mud" and "poking mud". It suddenly became popular among foreign children a year ago, and then social media such as Instagram constantly revealed various ways of playing. In domestic software such as Tik Tok and volcano video, there are often tutorials about homemade crystal mud uploaded by Great God, and many po owners are actually teenagers.
It is understood that slim is a transliteration of the English word "slim". On the other hand, mucus is also a virtual creature in video games. It is shaped like an onion and has a texture like jelly. Adding all kinds of beautiful things to slime can not only relieve the pressure, but also record a video and put it on the Internet for a large number of fans to watch. Therefore, all po owners pay great attention to mucilage fillers and add various "ingredients" such as thumbtacks, rubber ducks and glitter. After the social media caught fire, the physical store quickly became popular.
Beibei, a girl in the sixth grade of primary school this year, told reporters that making mucus is a very popular handicraft among students recently. Students will buy raw materials according to online videos and tutorials, and add, subtract and color in the production process. The manufacturing process is also very simple, but it is still a little difficult to be beautiful and moderate in hardness, which requires constant experiments. Some parents also reported that since the child fell in love with mucus, the bathroom or kitchen at home seems to have become a chemistry laboratory, and all kinds of colorful powders are scattered around.
The reporter learned that the main raw materials for making slime are glue, clay, borax and pigment. A netizen described: "Break the clay and put it in a container, then pour a little hot water and a little glue and mix it evenly. Then melt a spoonful of borax with a glass of water to make borax water, and add it and stir it into mud. When the water in clay dries, it becomes mucus. "
Make raw materials and sell well in the canteen.
When the reporter visited the relevant schools, he found that the nearby commissary was selling mucus raw materials. Without exception, these shops put raw materials or finished products such as borax water for making "slime" crystal mud in a conspicuous position on the shelves, which is convenient for students to buy.
According to the owner of the canteen, the main raw materials are borax and liquid glue, which are very popular with students, and some parents help their children buy them. They are really selling well. They are the hottest products sold these days, even hotter than the fingertip gyroscopes that were popular last year. "Children like to play with this. In fact, this kind of mud has existed for several years and only recently appeared. It is said that I learned it online, and we don't understand it either. They want to buy and sell. "
The reporter saw that the products in the canteen are divided into finished products and raw materials. The finished product mucus is a box of colorful jellies, and the raw materials are mainly borax water. The price of materials ranges from several yuan to tens of yuan, and borax water needs to be mixed with liquid glue to make mucus. In a shop, borax made of mucus is packed in a small transparent plastic box and a box of 2 yuan money. There is a picture on the box, marked with Korean and bar code, without product description, manufacturer, production date and so on. Another store's "borax water" packaging is simpler, only the name, production method and "Do not eat" warning, without indicating the manufacturer, address, materials and other contents. Searching for "borax" on Taobao, the results are basically bright-colored mucus and crystal mud, and the prices are basically around tens of yuan. Comments show that many consumers buy them back to make handmade products for their children.
When the reporter visited around the school, he found that there were many other mud products besides slime. Such as colored mud, clay, ultra-light mud, space mud and other products are piled up on the shelves, and the price ranges from several yuan to more than ten yuan. "The mud sells well, especially the little girls, who especially like these colorful handicrafts," said the owner of the canteen.
Borax is poisonous, so use it with caution.
It is understood that borax, the raw material for making slime, originally belongs to chemical products. It is a very important boron-containing mineral and boron compound. It is usually a white powder containing colorless crystals, which is easily soluble in water. Borax has the function of disinfection and bacteriostasis in medicine, and is also often used as disinfectant, eye lotion, preservative, pesticide, cosmetics and other fields. Borax sold in the market is often partially weathered.
Borax is highly toxic and banned as a food additive all over the world. If the human body ingests too much borax, it will cause cumulative poisoning of multiple organs. When children are doing manual work, borax will be absorbed by the human body if they encounter skin damage or accidentally touch the oral mucosa with their hands. Borax is absorbed quickly in human body, but its metabolism is slow. When the human body ingests a certain amount of borax, it will cause digestive tract related diseases, such as loss of appetite, affecting the absorption of nutrients and so on.
Mr. Li, a citizen, said that he originally supported children to do their own handiwork and exercise their hands-on ability, but later borax was found in slime's production materials, and he felt that for safety reasons, children were not allowed to play. "Our children are still young. Children may inadvertently touch their mouths when doing manual work, which is very likely to cause danger.
It is understood that people used to like to put a little borax when soaking glutinous rice, and fried fritters will also put a little borax. It is said that the jiaozi and fried dough sticks made in this way are delicious. However, in the last century, it was reported that borax caused cancer, so the state banned borax as food and ate industrial borax by mistake. Mild people can cause abdominal pain and vomiting, and eating by mistake can cause accumulation poisoning of multiple organs.
In the production process, parents should strengthen care, and children should wash their hands in time after use, especially before eating, to prevent harmful substances left on their hands from being ingested.