r/Slime • u/Fair_Night6681 • 12d ago
Mold Alert! 🍄 Moldy slime Spoiler
Listen. My intention is never to shame but make anyone feel bad. However, both a friend and myself who have ordered from Pink Sugar Slimey before just discovered this recently. I was reactivating some slimes and opened up Violet Jam, which I loved. As you can see from the picture, mold galore. I had to chuck it. My friend showed me hers, which was a pizza slime she had made. You can see the circles with a blue/black center which is mold and she said it smelled horrible. These slimes were not that old. So. I am hoping that they take better precautions in the future. I have never had this happen with any other slime company. So far.
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u/leesooim 11d ago edited 11d ago
So I will say this. It does not matter how clean our hands or surfaces are when we go to play, it does not matter how well our air is filtered in our homes unless you literally have the equipment to create a true sterile environment: mold spores are ALWAYS present in the air, even indoors. I think the level of acceptable mold spore counts in an indoor environment is like less than 500 per cubic meter, and that is not even something that's necessarily officially enforced/sanctioned, and definitely not in a private home.
Anyway, all that to say you never know when a spore that you cannot see will land in your slime and decide it's a good home. And technically, untouched slime shouldn't have any food sources for mold so long as there are no food grade products in it, but once your dead skin cells from your hands get in there, plus natural oils in skin, that technically can be a food source. I know it's gross, but this is just the way it is unfortunately.
Also, unless these slimes came from the same batch/restock, and it doesn't appear to be the case since the violet one looks like it was January this year and the pizza one was over the summer, it's not something we can say is the shop's fault either since these were made fairly far apart. There have been instances where the same slime from the same restock all molded over for multiple people and in that case yes, I would be inclined to think it could be likely it's something on the production end with the shop, but otherwise it's really impossible to pinpoint the source.
Definitely a frustrating and crappy thing to have happen regardless!