due to rising prices of sugar and spice since the Recession - as well as the long-running global everything nice shortage - nearly every girl that isn't homemade has been primarily sugar substitute, salt, and anti-caking agent, with the occasional niceties thrown in.
boys have been suffering similarly, too - snips have reached an all-time high cost to both harvest and purchase, and puppy-dog's tails have become scarcer and scarcer as dogs grow up faster and enter the job market earlier. (snails, it should be noted, are an exception - the snail trade has never been better for everyone involved, and as such most boys are majority snail.)
so please - don't mock anyone for not containing the correct materials! these are hard times we live in, and we all have to get by somehow
indeed, especially ever since the beginning of these supply issues the creativeness and diversity in gender recipes have been full force. the ingredients for a well-known magic spell that bears more than a little similarity to the traditional boy recipe - one that uses slime, snails, puppy-dog's tails, in addition to thunder and lightning - has proven especially effective as materials for boys throughout recent history, thanks to the wide availability of both slime and the power of electricity.
slime specifically has found great success as a very gender-neutral substitute for any ingredient, to the point where occasionally people will use entirely slime for their make-up - an impressive feat! indeed, similar great success has been found with homemade monster- and beastfolk of all kinds, owing primarily to the wider availability of the required quantity of ingredients to individual consumers, but being surprisingly difficult to manufacture.
another recent popular gender-neutral recipe that simply depends on preparation to hit the right notes is wires, gears and mortal tears. the mortal tears can be a little hard to come by sometimes, but a good source could be anywhere if you know what to do!