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• 1 Elma Tate // Feb 1, 2006 at 8:02 pm

  No their PH values are quite different and baking soda would never work
  its just too mild. Baking soda is used in some indigestion remedies
  Where as washing soda is used in some paint strippers and drain
  cleaners, it is commonly known here as caustic soda, one thing to keep
  in mind should you ever accidently get splashed with a washing soda
  solution vinegar will help neutralise it.
  Regards
  Denise
  bevione@…

• 2 Austin Ingeborg // Feb 2, 2006 at 10:58 am

  Washing Soda and Caustic Soda are NOT the same thing. You didn’t order lye.
  Mary E. Chapman
  Storm n Rose Creations
  Bath and Body Products and Custom Candles from
  “The Land of Ah’s”
  stormnrose@…

• 3 lizzie_300 // Feb 2, 2006 at 4:38 pm

  Caustic Soda is lye. So Washing Soda is lye, also?
  CJ

• 4 Elma Tate // Feb 4, 2006 at 3:47 am

  Thank you yes I stand to be corrected Sodium hydroxide which is also known as caustic soda
  Washing soda is a crystalline decahydrate( Na²CO³.IOH²O) but you can
  substitute sodium carbonate(Na²CO³) also called sal soda.
  Sodium carbonate is used in the manufacture of baking soda, also known
  as Bicarbonate of soda but it has a hydrogen atom in its chain ( NaHCO³)
  also sometimes sold as sodium hydrogencarbonate. In all honesty I have
  been out of laboratory work for so darn long but no I would not
  substitute bicarb for washing soda their PH values will be diffrent.
  Regards
  Denise
  bevione@…

• 5 Robby Walter // Feb 6, 2006 at 8:13 pm

  rid of all household chemicals and cleaning products, and now I make
  my own. Laundry soap was the last thing to go, because it was the
  hardest to find stuff for.<
  Good for you! When my son was diagnosed, we switched over to
  cleaning with vinegar and lavender essential oil with water in a
  mister for cleaning. We avoid synthetic fragrances in all products.
  I do use commercial laundry detergents because he is OK with them,
  but I buy the ones with no fragrance and add a 1/4 cup of borax to
  each load to freshen the clothes…really gets rid of the mustyness
  when the load sits in the washer for a short time before it gets into
  the dryer. Mold was the thing that was the thing that set him off
  the worst, made more serious by having given him antibiotics for
  repeated ear infections creating the vicious circle of
  illness/prescription - more illness/stronger prescription. Once we
  stopped giving him prescription antibiotics for every little thing
  and treated him with naturopathic medicine & homeopathy he stopped
  having asthma. I strongly encourage you to seek out a board
  certified, licensed ND if they have them in your state…it changed
  our lives. Contact me privately if you’d like more info. Susan

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