Is there a commercial name for Borax in the UK?
Question:I seen references to Borax as a cleaner, but have no idea what it is.
Answers:
Boric Acid or Boron... ask your chemist
*Borax is a product name and has additional ingredients for use as a household cleaner
naturally occurring deposits mined from the deserts of California USA and some other nations have it as well.
No, I don't think there is a commercial name, but you can get it in John Lewis because my Mum uses it for cleaning everything. Caustic soda or soda crystals isn't it?
Apparantly that and cider vinegar and you don't need any shop bought stuff!
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These should help.
It is a compound of boron used in detergent and glass making also enamel.
I use Borax everyday!
Here's the info from Wiki first...
Borax from Persian burah.[1][2] also called sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.
Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fibreglass, as an insecticide, as a flux in metallurgy, and as a precursor for other boron compounds.
The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated.
Now for me, i use in my swimming pool because it is fantastic for bringing up the PH of the water which drops every time you add chlorine.
Swimming pool shops try and tell sell you a PH+ chemical but Borax is safer and much, much cheaper.
I buy it from here if anyone who has a pool is interested:
http://www.greenshop.co.uk/acatalog/inde...
Hello,
If you go to Boots the chemist they sell it there in uk
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