Soap Flakes- any good??

singlehouseholder

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.

weenie

hi i use soap flakes for cleaning my leather sofa. It certainly brings it up a treat!!

weenie

http://www.soap-flakes.co.uk/ or try here for a list of uses for them.

mandy_moo_1

singlehouseholder wrote:

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

oooh i might get me some for my leather sofa

you can get soda crystals in tesco / co op / poundstretcher

singlehouseholder

thanks mandy moo 1 and rachie b!!

Jolaaled

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

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

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

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!