How to Make Fluffy Slime Easy at Home With Glue and Shaving Cream

This fluffy slime recipe is easy to make at home! Here are the recipe and step-by-step instructions for how to make slime with shaving cream yourself.

Updated February 2022

After finding this fluffy slime recipe on YouTube, our studio has been turned into a laboratory for making and experimenting with slimes. We've made about a dozen batches in a rainbow of colors.

We've always been big fans of sensory materials such as:

Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty
kinetic sand
water beads
oobleck
shaving cream
playdough
and more!

But lately, it's been about the homemade slimes and putties.

This fluffy slime is stretchy, putty-like stuff that is fun to knead and play with it. The kids even make balloons and balls with it!

Pile of pink fluffy slime — Photo by Jean Van't Hul

Our studio looks like a science laboratory, and we've been taking an experimental approach to this.

Each batch is a little different with slightly different properties of stretchiness, fluffiness, and non-stickiness depending on the amounts of extra glue, shaving cream, eye contact solution, etc that they added.

And, of course, we've been working to get the perfect colors and tints by adding and mixing food coloring (and liquid watercolors in a couple of cases).

Now we have a rainbow of fluffy slime.

It's pretty incredible!

Here's a video showing you how to make fluffy slime. And keep scrolling for the recipe and step-by-step instructions.

Fluffy Slime Recipe

Makes about 1 cup of slime. Adapted from the recipe in this YouTube video by Sarah Choxo.

Ingredients

1 bottle of Elmer's white glue*
Shaving cream (the foam kind, not the gel or cream kind)
Borax solution (1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear)
Eye contact solution (optional but recommended)
Food coloring (optional)
Essential oils (optional)

*Or, if you're going to be making lots of slime, you might want to consider buying your glue by the gallon.

Also, if you don't want to track down all the ingredients for slime, you can buy slime kits now! Here's a rainbow slime starter kit by Elmer's that is well rated on Amazon. It would be interesting to see if you could adapt it for making fluffy slime. Perhaps just by adding a bottle of shaving cream?

Time needed:30 minutes.

INSTRUCTIONS

Start with glue

Squeeze one bottle of white glue into a medium bowl.
Add shaving foam
Stir in 1/2 cup to 1 cup of shaving foam, depending on how fluffy you want your slime to be.
Add color

Stir in food coloring until you reach your desired color.
Mix in contact solution

Add a few squirts of contact solution (this makes it less sticky).
Add borax solution

Make a borax solution of 1 cup warm water with 1 teaspoon borax, mixed until clear. Add this solution a teaspoon at a time until the mixture forms a clump in the bowl.

This is what it looks like when it first pulls together.
Knead

Use your hands to knead your fluffy slime!

If it's too sticky, add more contact solution. If it seems to need more glue or shaving cream or color, you can knead that in, too.

And, if you want your fluffy slime to be scented, knead in a few drops of essential oil.
Have Fun!

Store in a covered container or plastic bag to keep your fluffy slime from drying out.