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Soap Flakes- any good??

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Anyone used Soap flakes before?Have just bought a box from Savers for £1.09- was looking for soda crystals but couldn't find any.
Thankyou all.
RIP Floyd - 19/04/09. I know i'll see you again my best friend forever.

19/06/2013 T12 incomplete Paraplegia, down but not out.

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  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 240 Forumite
    hi i use soap flakes for cleaning my leather sofa. It certainly brings it up a treat!!
    LIVE, LOVE, AND LEARN!!
  • weenie
    weenie Posts: 240 Forumite
    http://www.soap-flakes.co.uk/ or try here for a list of uses for them.
    LIVE, LOVE, AND LEARN!!
  • mandy_moo_1
    mandy_moo_1 Posts: 1,201 Forumite
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    Anyone used Soap flakes before?Have just bought a box from Savers for £1.09- was looking for soda crystals but couldn't find any.
    Thankyou all.
    If its any help you can get soda crystals in Home Bargains, Wilkinsons & Boyes if you have any of those where you are ;)
  • Rachie_B
    Rachie_B Posts: 8,785 Forumite
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    oooh i might get me some for my leather sofa :)

    you can get soda crystals in tesco / co op / poundstretcher :)
  • thanks mandy moo 1 and rachie b!!
    RIP Floyd - 19/04/09. I know i'll see you again my best friend forever.

    19/06/2013 T12 incomplete Paraplegia, down but not out.
  • Jolaaled
    Jolaaled Posts: 1,063 Forumite
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    If you have a pre-schooler ( or older!), then soapflakes are the best entertainment.

    Give the child a washingup bowl of warm water and a balloon whisk. Let them then whisk in the flakes, bit by bit. After a while, you get a lovely frothy, creamy gunky that is great for messy play..can even be modelled if you get the mix very concentrated.

    Best therapy ever!!
  • exlibris
    exlibris Posts: 696 Forumite
    When my boys were small I could buy BIG bags of flakes from Boots. I would put them in their bath - Bath bubbles.

    Take boys out and put the day's dirty clothes in. Soak while getting boys to bed then swish around a bit, rinse and put to dry.

    In summer the clothes went on the line and by the time I went to bed they were dry. In the morning the same play clothes went back on boys. No they weren't ironed unless the clothes were going-out clothes!
  • halloweenqueen_2
    halloweenqueen_2 Posts: 3,312 Forumite
    Will try these on my sofas I think! The cleaning stiff you get is so expensive, will still get the cream to feed them though. Thanks!
  • mamaoba
    mamaoba Posts: 130 Forumite
    thanks for the tip re toddlers bubbles - one every contented little boy this aftenoon while mummy did some work. I had a packet in the cupboard and tried it out - he loved it!
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