Rowena wrote:
http://www.safersolutions.org.au/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=147Itemid=133
Sodium carbonate is a mild alkali and can irritate the skin and eyes.
My husband just retired from 33 years working in a Trona mine. Trona is
the ore from which soda ash is refined. Some
Amazingly, it's hard to find even here, and I live where the stuff is
mined and refined, and it is also very expensive these days. The grocery
stores here carry very little of it and can let that little stock run
out, and so not have any at all at times.
sol
Rowena wrote:
you might need to
On what basis are you thinking it is toxic?
My mother was against it because she reckoned it rotted the clothes in
clothes washing, but she used detergents which we now find have health
problems. They were new then, and she would even put them in the bath. Oh
well.
However, my grandmother,
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From: Rowena
Date: 31/10/2008 09:37:58
To: silver-list@eskimo.com
Subject: CSWashing soda - toxic? No
On what basis are you thinking it is toxic?
My mother was against it because she reckoned it rotted the clothes in
clothes washing, but she used detergents which we
I've never heard of 'washing soda'. Do yuo mean baking soda? Faith G.
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From: Dee Fitzpatrick d...@deetroy.org
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: CSWashing soda - toxic? No
I do use it Rowena, as a water softener
No, Faith.
Baking soda (US) is bicarbonate of soda, or sodium bicarbonate.
Washing soda is sodium carbonate, a step or two away from bicarb. It got a
mention in the text on the pages whose links I posted. There was a
description on one of the sites, I think the steam engine one, saying what
As Rowena said, it is crystals which are used to soften water etc., but her
explanation is really comprehensive so I'll leave it at that. dee
---Original Message---
From: Faith Gagne
Date: 31/10/2008 12:45:02
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Subject: Re: CSWashing soda - toxic? No
I've
Thanks.
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From: Rowena new...@aapt.net.au
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: CSWashing soda - toxic? No
No, Faith.
Baking soda (US) is bicarbonate of soda, or sodium bicarbonate.
Washing soda is sodium carbonate
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