If You Never Want To Use Laundry Detergent This Is Your Answer

[Rinse & rePeat]

I got mine in and am gonna do a load now!

 

[Drareg]

Has anyone tried regular magnesium hydroxide powder for this?

 

[ecstatichamster]

I got mine in and am gonna do a load now!

Enjoy!

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

Enjoy!

Yeah enjoy laundry

 

[VitoScaletta]

I got mine in and am gonna do a load now!

does it work well?

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

does it work well?

I yes it does. The clothes smell cleaner than with the soap.

 

[ecstatichamster]

fourth year of using these and still absolutely delighted.

 

[EvanHinkle]

fourth year of using these and still absolutely delighted.

Thank you for this thread. Can’t wait to try these out!

 

[NaKCaMg]

Been using them for years. Look for terra wash.
Amazon product ASIN B08CZ91TRQView: https://www.amazon.com/Detergent-Fragrance-Alternative-Sensitive-hypoallergenic/dp/B08CZ91TRQ/

 

[:M :B.]

I'm in the Japanese magnesium bead club now and after a few washes, this thing is legit. Thanks for the idea @ecstatichamster

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

I'm in the Japanese magnesium bead club now and after a few washes, this thing is legit. Thanks for the idea @ecstatichamster

The clothes smell so neutral and fresh with the magnesium beads!

 

[ecstatichamster]

glad you are enjoying it. I have invested in magnesium mines, so I am earning a lot of money thanks to you!

LOL.

They claim the beads are good for 365 washes, but they tell you to weigh the bag. We have had ours for years and they are still great.

I hate clothing smelling like laundry soap, and that is now a thing of the past.

 

[sunny]

fourth year of using these and still absolutely delighted.

These are your original purchase? How many times a week do you use them?

 

[ecstatichamster]

These are your original purchase? How many times a week do you use them?

we do 3 or 4 loads a week.

 

[Sphagnum]

I came looking for this thread so that I could message the couple members using it about long term updates, and was delighted to see the updates were already here!

I bought some of this earlier in the year when I first came across the thread, but never got around to using it until today when my detergent ran out. Now I’m reassured that I don’t need to go out for more detergent…ever

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

I have been using this chemical-free fabric softener, and it works amazingly well. I use only two of the balls, and only one for small loads.

 

[wtf]

If anybody wants to read what Ted had to say. ...

Would Boron Work Instead of Borax?

Posted by Mary (Port Orange, Florida) on 08/17/2008


I am a little leary of using the borax laundry soap and was wondering if using a boron supplement would give the same result? What is found in the health food store is Tri-Boron Plus, made by Twinlab. Each capsule has 1.5 mg of boron, with serving size being 2 capsules. It also has magnesium, calcium, vitamin D and a couple others. If this will work, how many mg per day of the boron do you suggest? Thanks, I'll be looking for your response.

Keep up the good work, your site provides a wealth of information!



Replied by Ted
Bangkok, Thailand
08/17/2008
384 posts
Dear Mary:

Most manufacturing process of products I do call and check factory was whether any additional inert ingredients or other ingredients was added in a laundry detergent, or a generic borax product. Most of my problem I encountered is the consumer products rather than products people assumed to be unsafe, that is assumed to be as safe but it killed people, such as aspartame for example.

Or some product that people thinks it promotes good health but is really dangerous (in serious conditions) such as yogurt if it was consumed by people with a cancer metastasis that leads to rapid blood clotting and acted as an anti-nutrient as casein milk protein (in yogurt and cow's milk product) renders nearly all anti cancer supplements (indole 3 carbinol, lysine, etc.) useless as it covers whatever that was consumed and reduced bioavailability to almost zero.

This is why hospitals used milk for food poisoning, or that milk is prohibited whenever antibiotics are given. Even something as innocuous as a children's playground has toxic levels of arsenic, cadmium and mercury as the source of children's metal toxicity. So most of the problem I encountered from poisoning are the ones people don't expect.

Many sickness I also encountered (as heavy metals are common in tap water, filter or unfiltered in nearly 3/4 of homes I investigated, including the house i live in) resulted in worsening of health. Even common household goods such as paint thinner is another one. What is more disturbing is the fact that certain pipes filling to reduce chlorine in showers add to the problem of worsening health crisis, such as a special devices that releases copper to neutralize the chlorine, creates copper poisonng in unsuspecting victims trying to avoid chlorine. It creates a Catch-22 situation.

Locally at least here, a chemical supplier I bought sold me pharmaceutical grade borax, or sodium tetraborate. This is the route I prefer. In some places I buy borax from a drug store which is often a pharmaceutical grade, such as USP, or BP grade being the common identifier. As to how many milligrams of borax I used that is roughly equivalent to 1/4 teaspoon in a per 1 liter solution, a conversion therefore is necessary. But a lower dose of 1/8 teaspoon of borax also needs a formal conversion.

So the accept conversion for a teaspoon contains 5 mL or 5 cc of any given substance. 5 cc or 5 mL for one teaspoon is equivalent to 5 grams or 5000 mg of the substance. Since I used a straight powdered from a 1/4 teaspoon would equal to 5000 mg/4 or a low dose of 1/8 teaspoon is equivalent to 5000 mg/8, which is 1250 mg for 1/4 teaspoon and 625 mg for 1/8 teaspoon.

Before figuring out how much Tri-Boron is needed, here is the labeling information:
Tri-boron Plus Ingredients
Boron (from boron citrate, boron aspartate - boron glycinate) - 3mg*, Calcium (from calcium citrate - calcium carbonate) - 1000mg - 100%, Magnesium (from magnesium asparate - magnesium oxide) - 500mg - 125%, Vitamin D-3 - 400iu - 100%, Zinc (from zinc picolinate - histidine complex) - 15mg - 100%, Manganese (from manganese gluconate) - 5mg*, Copper (from copper gluconate) - 500mcg - 25%, Betaine HCI (betaine hydrochloride) - 324mg*
[%U.S.RDA]
[* NoU.S.RDA established]

I really have a problem against aspartate, boron aspartate or any supplements that has the name aspartate as it is an excitotoxin that works in similar ways as the artificial sweetners as aspartame, which causes metabolic acidosis. So I would not personally consider this for a couple of reasons. I contains boron aspartate, magnesium aspartate. And I have some issues about hydrochloride, such as Betaine Hydrochloride, since it is an acid forming product. So it is back to square one, things people consider as safe is usually not safe. But assuming that it IS safe and another boron supplements were found without aspartate or other amino acid excitotoxins and hydrochloride acid forming product, and we try to figure out how many capsules are needed in a 3 mg of boron products.

So in a product such as Tri-Boron, which as 3 mg, will require 625/3 = 208 capsules. This is then dissolved in a one liter of water. Which would not make practical sense. I worked out all these problem long time before and this is why supplements company stands to make a huge amount of profits. In my opinion it won't have the therapeutic dose.

So all products I have to investigated, I have found unsuprisingly that at least a local laundry detergen (borax) I have bought years ago had less heavy metal impurities then the supplements by 99%. It seems that the more it is processed the more contaminants they are introduced. So a laboratory analysis can offer assurances of the product in question or I would at least demand a "technical specification" or "purity analysis" from the manufacturers or chemical suppliers. For me it is much easier if I just get a BP grade and USP grade, and I might ask them for purity analysis sheets while I am at it. Sometimes the situation is even more strange, that a non graded product turns about to be more pure than the USP grade. That's because the company didn't formally register for USP grade.

Therefore things do not appear what it is really. This is problem of the labelling syndrome when people should investigate further what is behind all surface information we are given. There is an old one movie I watched, The Wizard of Oz, when the Wizard gave the cowardly lion a medal of courage, and a degree to a scarecrow with no brains, and medal of purple heart to the robot with no heart. It is just a label. Just because a wizard give these labels won't change the fact that they still intrinsically don't have courage, knowledge or bravery.It's a placebo effect, at the very least, but at its worse, we may be only fooling ourselves.

Ted



Ted's Remedies, Borax Cures and Health Benefits

I know this is old but as a chemist I cannot read this and pass over the error in conversion.
borax: disodium;3,7-dioxido-2,4,6,8,9-pentaoxa-1,3,5,7-tetraborabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane;decahydrate (IUPAC)
Na2B4O7 · 10H2O
M.W. 381.37
Boron Fraction = 4*10.81/381.37 = 0.113
Now assuming 1/4 teaspoon contain 1250mg the Boron in this dose would be 141.7 mg.
This means that the above recommendation for equivalent 3mg servings of Boron would be 9x higher than needed

 

[EvanHinkle]

I tried the magnesium balls suggested here, but they weren’t able to clean my sheets and beanies, (that I do a lot of manual labor in) as well as I wanted. I felt though that due to my own experience with magnesium that the balls really should have worked, and so I tried a cup of epsom salts in my laundry, (thinking maybe I just need more) and holy cow it did the trick! I’ll be purchasing in bulk probably when I want to use it as a “booster” to my typical laundry soap.

Very grateful for Ecstatichamster for bringing this one to my attention. I can’t tell you how many times I tossed out items that I just couldn’t get clean anymore. Now everything is neutral like it’s brand new.

 

[sunny]

I tried the magnesium balls suggested here, but they weren’t able to clean my sheets and beanies, (that I do a lot of manual labor in) as well as I wanted. I felt though that due to my own experience with magnesium that the balls really should have worked, and so I tried a cup of epsom salts in my laundry, (thinking maybe I just need more) and holy cow it did the trick! I’ll be purchasing in bulk probably when I want to use it as a “booster” to my typical laundry soap.

Very grateful for Ecstatichamster for bringing this one to my attention. I can’t tell you how many times I tossed out items that I just couldn’t get clean anymore. Now everything is neutral like it’s brand new.

Wow, that is amazing. I have never read anywhere to use epsom salt. I'll have to have my husband try on his work clothes.

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

I tried the magnesium balls suggested here, but they weren’t able to clean my sheets and beanies, (that I do a lot of manual labor in) as well as I wanted. I felt though that due to my own experience with magnesium that the balls really should have worked, and so I tried a cup of epsom salts in my laundry, (thinking maybe I just need more) and holy cow it did the trick! I’ll be purchasing in bulk probably when I want to use it as a “booster” to my typical laundry soap.

Very grateful for Ecstatichamster for bringing this one to my attention. I can’t tell you how many times I tossed out items that I just couldn’t get clean anymore. Now everything is neutral like it’s brand new.

I would agree with you, that though the magnesium balls make my laundry smell squeaky clean, it doesn’t so much on real dirty stuff, so I use regular laundry soap on those, but I am going to try your Epsom salt suggestion now, instead on the tougher stuff.