[2] It consists of a non-toxic viscous, squishy and oozy green or other color material made primarily from guar gum.

Playmates Toys' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles figure line introduced a Retro-mutagen slime sold in containers and included with playsets.

[5] Slime has expanded into other franchises such as Masters of the Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Ghostbusters.

reported that eight out of eleven slime lines from Amazon contained boron levels that exceeded European Union safety standards.

[7] However, according to Snopes, claims about slime's carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, and neurotoxicity were either false or unlikely to matter in the concentrations available to consumers and through their typical routes of exposure.