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Soap Flakes- any good??
singlehouseholder
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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.
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.
19/06/2013 T12 incomplete Paraplegia, down but not out.
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hi i use soap flakes for cleaning my leather sofa. It certainly brings it up a treat!!LIVE, LOVE, AND LEARN!!0
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If its any help you can get soda crystals in Home Bargains, Wilkinsons & Boyes if you have any of those where you aresinglehouseholder 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.
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oooh i might get me some for my leather sofa
you can get soda crystals in tesco / co op / poundstretcher 0 -
thanks mandy moo 1 and rachie b!!RIP Floyd - 19/04/09. I know i'll see you again my best friend forever.
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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.
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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!0 -
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!0
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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!0
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