Wow! Soda crystals are fab!

[laura032004]

Just used them for the first time to clean my kitchen floor. I have never seen it so clean, and I just mopped it, rather than scrubbing on hands and knees.

What else is it good for?

Can I use it in my metal sink? It says not to use on aluminium, but no idea if my sink is aluminium or not!

Your sink is probably stainless steel. I like to rinse the wastepipes with soda. Pile the crystals over the plughole then slowly pur boiling water over them so they melt and trickle down the pipes.

Ooh, ooh - can I use it on a white tiled floor?

How did you use it laura?

Did you put them in hot water in the bucket and mop and did you go over it with something else after?

yes tell me more

i bought a packet last week, but they are unopened cause im not quite sure what to do with them

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does anyine know if you can use them to boost soap nuts?

or if they will sort of kill the soap nuts?

If you keep the metal lids from your milk bottle tops and put them in warm water with soda crystals, your silver cutlery will come up a treat.

Well....

First I swept the floor, then hoovered it.

Then I made up a really strong solution with boiling water and scrubbed all the corners and kickboards with a washing up scrubbing brush.

Then I made a milder solution (about half a cup full), with boiling water (I did it in my washing up bowl, so it was about a third full), and mopped the floor.

After that, I gave it a quick mop with boiling water with a bit of bleach in, as I find it dries quicker if it's got really hot water on it.

It is truly the cleanest I have ever seen it. Kind of matt and completely grease free. Usually use multipurpose cleaner (Flash) with a squirt of Fairy washing up liquid and a bit of bleach with boiling water.

Yes, sure the sink is stainless steel (too early in the morning to work it out in the first post!). Right, will chuck some down there then.

My floor is lino tiles, so don't know about normal tiles. The only warning on the packet is not to use on aluminium though, so sure it would be fine.

A soda crystal solution is good for cleaning work tops too. It gets rid of grime you didn't realise was there!

Bree - you still have milk-bottles!?

I'm so NOT a good housekeeper but I am curiously intrigued by this thread

Yes, I haven't seen real milk bottles - or their tops - for years! But you can get the same effect with aluminium foil. Put foil in bottom of basin, cover with hot water, chuck in some soda crystals, then your silver and wait till it stops frothing.

Look at www.sodacrystals.co.uk/for more ideas.

So could you clean silver jewellery like this too? Will check out the website.

Yes, we still have a milk man. You forget I live in a snapshot of middle England, from the husbands who all go up to town to do something in the city, to the Mummies who "do" coffee mornings as a means of entertainment.

Its great for tea stained tea cups/mugs too. Fab stuff , always have some liquid and powder here.

Always forget all the things it can do.

Yes, Laura, I did some silver jewellery the other week.

You'd only need to make sure there weren't any other materials in the jewellery which might be harmed by it.

Saves a lot of fiddling about - painless, really.

Note from that website I posted that you can put one or two crystals into stewing apples to stop them going brown, or when cooking veg to help them keep their colour.
Don't think I fancy doing that.

Now going to actually do some housework instead of doling out advice to other folk about it

where can you get this wonderstuff from? Always having smelly and blocked drains and loathe putting all that vile chemical stuff down. Mind you - are soda crystals vile chemicals? I very dumb.

any supermarket cleaning aisle

splendid - will get some on the next big shop. Along with my new found friend bicarb of soda.

do you think you can wash platiunum and diamonds in it?????

Melsy

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A thimbleful of gin or whiskey will do the same job.

Leave it to soak overnight and then give a good brushing with an old toothbrush.

I use coke on diamonds, but not old ones, as I think it would erode the paste used in the setting.

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