brettsomers
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Has anyone used this in the laundry? Does it work? I bought a box, but i dont have any heavily soiled laundry to try it out on.
Twenty Mule-team *Borax*
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David, Tomturbomatic uses this on his perm press shirts in tehe summer. I've used it too over the years off & on.
Used the 20 mule team borax in diaper pails sure helped with odor and cleaning. Used with play clothes to help get grime out. Used Boroteem also wonder if it is still made. Used 1 cup of borax to about a gallon of water to place dirty diapers in pail. Washed daily line dried when possible.
washerboy
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The stuff WORKS!!!
I've used 20 mule team on warehouse uniforms that were loaded with all kinds of funk and smell...add a cupful to your wash water...works better than Spray-n_Wash, Zout or Shout. Also works well with whites/m
I've used 20 mule team on warehouse uniforms that were loaded with all kinds of funk and smell...add a cupful to your wash water...works better than Spray-n_Wash, Zout or Shout. Also works well with whites/m
whirlcool
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We also use it on smelly dog beds. It does a great job of deodorizing without leaving any lingering smell. Just keep an eye on the top of the tub in your washer. After several uses it usually leaves a ring of gray scum in the tub. A rag moistened with a water diluted bleach solution takes this off quite easily. I have even used it with HE detergents and it works very well.
irishwashguy
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It works.For all of the above and the borax was successful in killing the fleas when I had a manifistaion of them in my house.i had just layed down new barkdust, and fleas love it but hate 20 mule team. Fab stuff
Does anyone remember Rosemary de Camp, no not an impersonator or male illusionist like Hedda Lettuce, but the lady who did the ads for 20 Mule Team Borax on Death Valley Days? Back then, I divided commercials into two groups: Those that showed a washer washing and those that did not. Her commercials usually showed the borax being added to a washer. Earlier, she had appeared as the aunt of Bob Cummings (I swear that is how it is spelled)on the Bob Cummings Show where he played a young photographer renting a room from her. I believe the show started with him holding a camera and saying, "Hold it! I think you're going to like this picture." Then he put the camera up to his face and fired the flash. In re-runs it was called Love That Bob. Ann B. Davis was his assistant waaay before she cooked for the Brady Family. In one episode, Cummings played his grandfather, also a photographer, who still used flash powder, and way too much. By the time he took the picture, the results were predictably hilarious.
Yes, I use borax to keep the underarm area of shirts from getting funky while wearing them even with antipisperant & deodorant. I don't use it as a cleaning booster since I use STPP. Has anyone seen those old nursery sets that had glass jars on a tray? There was always one labeled Boric Acid, which used to be thought of as a pretty benign, weak antiseptic, but that container was always empty. Then decades later, I read of a mother who took her little circumcised baby home and wiped the wound with boric acid every day. The baby died within a week. I think he was disinfected to death and died of boron poisoning. Borax is not the same as boric acid, but they both are related to boron which must give borax some muscle somehow. I just use borax on laundry, not on my body.
Yes, I use borax to keep the underarm area of shirts from getting funky while wearing them even with antipisperant & deodorant. I don't use it as a cleaning booster since I use STPP. Has anyone seen those old nursery sets that had glass jars on a tray? There was always one labeled Boric Acid, which used to be thought of as a pretty benign, weak antiseptic, but that container was always empty. Then decades later, I read of a mother who took her little circumcised baby home and wiped the wound with boric acid every day. The baby died within a week. I think he was disinfected to death and died of boron poisoning. Borax is not the same as boric acid, but they both are related to boron which must give borax some muscle somehow. I just use borax on laundry, not on my body.
maytagbear
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And,
pure borax will burn green, so if you want to make green fire. I know of someone who would put various chemicals in melted solid paraffin, and then poured into a paper cup, let them solidify, and then threw them into a burning log fire. Amused the children for a while.
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pure borax will burn green, so if you want to make green fire. I know of someone who would put various chemicals in melted solid paraffin, and then poured into a paper cup, let them solidify, and then threw them into a burning log fire. Amused the children for a while.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
zipdang
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Boroteem also wonder if it is still made
Borateem is still available, although the version on our store shelves has been reformulated. It's a lighter, fluffier powder in a smaller "ultra" box. I haven't tried it or smelled it, but I used to really like the smell of the old Borateem in the 70s and 80s.
Borateem is still available, although the version on our store shelves has been reformulated. It's a lighter, fluffier powder in a smaller "ultra" box. I haven't tried it or smelled it, but I used to really like the smell of the old Borateem in the 70s and 80s.
whirlcool
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And it's also great for mixing with detergents like Spic & Span for washing walls too.
Didn't Ronald Reagan also hawk that stuff on "Death Valley Days"?
polkanut
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This stuff has been used in our family for 4 generations, and we all swear by it for laundry, and general cleaning purposes.
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Remember when Rosemary De Camp did the commercials for 20 mule team Borax?
westyslantfront
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Rosemary De Camp was also on the Bob Cummings show.
Love That Bob
Love That Bob
westyslantfront
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Remember when Rosemary DeCamp did the commercials for
20 Mule Team Borax? She was also on the Bob Cummings Show...
Love That Bob.
20 Mule Team Borax? She was also on the Bob Cummings Show...
Love That Bob.
Borateem
Borateem was billed as a color brightener and a color safe bleach, but when CU tested it, they found it was worthless as a bleach, so they said to save money and just use borax if you wanted the benefits of borax, but Borateem might have had other uses and qualities. And if you were looking for cheap, shoddy furniture, well that was a different type of borax.
If you go to this link you will see the darker side of Borateem.
http://dev.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/product.tcl?reg_nr=00162400028&prod_name=BORATEEM
Borateem was billed as a color brightener and a color safe bleach, but when CU tested it, they found it was worthless as a bleach, so they said to save money and just use borax if you wanted the benefits of borax, but Borateem might have had other uses and qualities. And if you were looking for cheap, shoddy furniture, well that was a different type of borax.
If you go to this link you will see the darker side of Borateem.
http://dev.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/product.tcl?reg_nr=00162400028&prod_name=BORATEEM
launderess
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IIRC Borateem was nothing more than borax,surfactant and protein enzyme. Would work as a detergent "booster" and pre-soak (especially back in the days when not all detergents contained enzymes), but not a very good bleach. Borax does have some very mild bleaching properties, but nothing like sodium perborate, which is made from treating borax with hydrogen peroxide.
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i bought the Borax with the intent of using it with the bottle of unscented Purex ive leftover after i bought Tide for the first time. so far used it on a load of whites/towels. washed the shower curtain along with these. seems to work, will have to use it alittle more.
