What's Play Doh Made Of?
If you listened to my Mailbag episode, you probably came away knowing that play-doh has a lot of salt, but maybe not certain what the other ingredients are there for. In my exhaustive research, I found two versions of the Play-Doh recipe. The first is from the original patent, US 3,167,400, which lists the ingredients as follows: Grain Flour (hard winter wheat flour, first clears) Tap water Common Salt Borax Light hydrocrabon distillate such deodorized kerosene Another pat