Borax in the UK

[hoshisato]

<p>I would like to experiment a little by adding some borax to my Rodinal developer, but I cannot find any borax in the supermarkets. Where do you buy your borax, UK members?</p>

[alec_myers]

<p>It's available in most small hardware shops (there's a company that markets it in small green plastic bags) - alternatively you can buy it from Silverprint.</p>

[tim_bradshaw1]

<p>dri-pak (dri-pak.co.uk) used to sell it, but it looks like the EU, in their infinite wisdom, have classified it such that it can no longer be sold as a cleaning product. So you may have to get it from some more expensive source now.</p>

[rustys pics]

<p>It's banned in the UK? Let me guess; it's environmental Do-Gooders. Must be causing global warming or something....</p>

[chris_raney1]

<p>In the U. S. you can purchase <em>Twenty Mule Team Borax</em> right off the grocer's shelf. It's sold as a laundry detergent but it's nothing more than pure borax. I purchased a box years ago and I've been using it in my divided D-76 solutions for years now.</p>

[hoshisato]

<p>Apparently it is classified as a repro toxin and since a save alternative exist as cleaning product, it sort of makes sense to have it removed from the shelves. Ah well, it looks like I'll have to visit the Silverprint shop. Thanks everybody.</p>

[rustys pics]

<p>Why does it make sense to ban a common household chemical used safely for decades? Sorry that the EU is so invasive. For now I'm going to buy some here in the U.S. before some politician decides to ban it, the way they have tungsten filament light bulbs....</p>

[paul_poropat]

<p>That's, long lived, non-flickering, safely disposed of, low cost, easily dimmed. tungsten filament bulbs!</p>

[dweezil]

<blockquote>

<p>That's, long lived, non-flickering, safely disposed of, low cost, easily dimmed. tungsten filament bulbs!</p>

</blockquote>

<p>And the "long lived, low cost, easily(cheaply) dimmed" are exactly the eco problems with those bulbs. That's Eco as in ECONOMIC not ECOLOGIC.</p>

 

[alan_doyle1]

<p>rubbish...<br>

tesco's sells it in a lovely little box for 80p.<br>

it is called naturally borax,and is sold as an enviro friendly cleaner.<br>

funny thing is i got my latest box from a pound store,but it still had the tesco logo on.<br>

i hate tesco's they are to big and rich,so check out your local pound store first,then tescos.<br>

been using it for months with my mad processing experiments.<img src=" alt="" /></p><div></div>

[Farside]

<p>If this thread is still of interest, it's possible to buy borax online from here: http://mistralie.co.uk/<br>

or for Irish buyers: http://buychemicals.ie/<br>

Not terribly cheap though, but for developing or cleaning use a little goes a long way.</p>