Creato Quick casting 1000g in poly bag, alginate moulding paste

Reading some of the low reviews I was a little reluctant to try. But very happy I did. My advice is to ignore the people saying it's lumpy or won't set a strong mould - these reviews DO NOT KNOW how to use alginate.A simple google search clearly states to add the water to the alginate - NOT the alginate to the water as I'd bet money the other people did - this will result in extremely lumpy and poor moulds no matter what brand you use. I know: I used a very very well trusted brand and mixed wrong and one batch wouldn't set and was lumpy porridge, and the other set almost instantly.This is user error.I learnt from my mistakes and mixed this product at a 3:1 water to alginate BY WIEGHT NOT VOLUME (alginate can be compressed, or fluffy so eyeballing volume does not give accurate weight). Had spare pint of water on hand too.Added the water to the alginate and mixed well, added a few more dashes of water at the end (a tip I found from a easy google search: "save 10% of the water to add at the end of mixing") and it came out perfect.Stuck my hand in it, stayed still for 5mins and made a virtually perfect mould. And what's more it was WAY WAY stronger and lasted LONGER than the brand name alginate that fell apart after 10mins.Cast polyurethane resin hands x2 and each mixed batch of this product was perfect - because I knew how to mix properly!Buy this product, search how to properly mix alginate, test a small batch and you will be very very happy like me.

fantastic, first time using alginate for anything and it was great, I cast my entire head with the help of my fiancée, she also has no experience with alginate or any casting, it was very easy to use. sets at a good pace but you have to be fast slapping it on. great amount of detail captured with it.

Great product and great fun with the kids. Bag had a hole in it on arrival though so a little messy when opening

I’ve used a few brands of alginate now, this is I think a lot thicker than some brands when mixed and doesn’t have a minty smell, smells like seaweed. I used a drill attachment to mix it. It gets a good amount of detail in casts

Amazing

This worked fine, was concerned about the lumpiness when mixing but the mould of an adult hand came out perfectly. Did notice it took a long time to fix so wouldn't be good for children's patience and unhelpfully it doesn't change colour so you don't know when it's done. We did try another purchase of a different type, the chromatic one by Craft Mill and the colour changed from pink to white when ready and it was ready in only about three minutes rather than about ten.

Cool stuff

Very good