A permanent mounting media designed for coverslipping specimen slides without requiring alcohol dehydration and xylene clearing steps. Slides are simply mounted from water. Anti-Fade is especially applicable to coverslipping all immunostains (AEC, DAB, Fast Red) as well as all special stains and immunofluorescence stains. It hardens quickly and mounted slide preparations are ready for microscopic examination in less than 10 minutes. Anti-Fade mounting media is formulated for permanent mounting (