Using baking soda for snow effects

[Darkoath]

I have watched a few videos on YouTube about doing snow effects for basing and terrain features
using baking soda.  However I have heard rumors that this can turn yellow over time?
Does anyone have information if this is true or not?  I don't want to use this effect if it is going
to turn yellow over time.  I will post this in the Workbench board also.  Thank you!

[waitwhat]

Not happened to me yet but i think it can look on the creamy side compared to commercial snow effect. To counter this it is generally recommended to add microscopic drops of blue ink in the pva to change the tone.

[snitcythedog]

However I have heard rumors that this can turn yellow over time?

Give it a year or two in your humidity and it will yellow.  If it was dry heat it might last longer.  Woodland scenics snow flock is cheap enough there.  Look at some of those toots to get the snow how you want it.   

Snitchy sends.

[yamaneko]

Why can't you just paint it?  Or mix in paint with the effect itself?  I have done that, and it works and looks great. The texture is the main thing at issue here, no?  You need something very fine, so as to distinguish it from sand.

[GHoooSTS]

For me, I used a mixture of glue, water, baking soda and white paint to make snow with some snow effects fluff sprinkled on top of the mixture after applying it to a surface.

If you're considering the same thing, I've not had my baking soda yellow yet... but my glue sure did on a few projects. Be sure to test out a few different types of glue to avoid the yellowing. I find Aileen's Tacky Glue doesn't yellow and works great for all kinds of stuff anyway.

[SotF]

Why can't you just paint it?  Or mix in paint with the effect itself?  I have done that, and it works and looks great. The texture is the main thing at issue here, no?  You need something very fine, so as to distinguish it from sand.

It yellows the paint...baking soda was pretty much designed to leach things into itself. It's why one of the uses for it is to have an open container in the fridge to get rid of smells, or pouring it over spills (and vomit and blood) to suck things up. The yellowing is a chemical change in it that creates the problem, and that it tends to also dissolve means that your paint mixes in with it very well to create a problem.

[tomrommel1]

I use baking soda for years now and had no yellowing effect what so ever . Even on my oldest figures.

[pws]

I use baking soda for years now and had no yellowing effect what so ever . Even on my oldest figures.

So do I.
I added a drop of "icy blue" in the base mixture with baking soda and glue, no yellowing after 7 years.