Citric acid suppliers in Berkshire/Surrey area?

alanalea

Hi all, hope this is in the right area (if not please feel free to move )

I'm in need of a citric acid and bicarbonate of soda bulk suppliers..... I'm finally getting brave and i'm going to attempt bath bombs:j , but to buy these from the net i'm paying a ton in postage- I'm in Sandhurst which is on the Berkshire/Surrey/Hampshire boaders.

Can anyone help?
Cheers :beer:

EDIT: !!!!!!- I did post in the wrong area

Lea x

mrs_baggins

I had to get mine posted too. However boots do 500 g boxes of bicarb. it works out a little more expensive though. Not sure about citric acid- try home brew shops as for some reason i have it in my head that its used for something in brewing but dont know what.at least if you get bicarb from boots the postage may be cut if you are just getting citrc.

Pink.

Hi alanalea,

This older thread might help you: where to buy citric acid?

Pink

kittycat07

Don't know if you're still in need but there's a Wilkinson's in Aldershot which I went to (for the first time) today - they do larger boxes of bicarb and also little cartons of citric acid (50g) so I guess it depends on how much you need!

furndire

A lot of our local chemists stopped selling/displaying Citric Acid crystals because drug users use them ~ so a local chemist told me. You probably need to ask at the counter for them.

marybishop

furndire wrote: »

A lot of our local chemists stopped selling/displaying Citric Acid crystals because drug users use them ~ so a local chemist told me. You probably need to ask at the counter for them.

:eek:

When I think how good it was at descaling the kettle and taps that's a bit scary!!

kittycat07

Mary

As I understand it it's used with Heroin to make it better to take (not sure how) - it's not that it's taken as a drug by itself

Mr_Proctalgia

There is a lot of information on Google but essentially, "Base Heroin" is not very soluble and is therefore mixed with an acid to make it soluble and suitable for injection ( After being filtered through a fag paper) It seems that Citric Acid causes the least tissue necrosis. :eek:

HTH

marybishop

Mr_Proctalgia wrote: »

There is a lot of information on Google but essentially, "Base Heroin" is not very soluble and is therefore mixed with an acid to make it soluble and suitable for injection ( After being filtered through a fag paper) It seems that Citric Acid causes the least tissue necrosis. :eek:

HTH

Don't think I'll be putting it to the test but thanks for the info anyway!