Trying to buy Citric Acid ...

italiastar

letsbehonest wrote: »

Used to get mine at Boots,,

That was the first place I tried - it seems odd that diffrent branches / possibly assistants treat this differently.

italiastar

juno wrote: »

I was reading a leaflet for a drug outreach project today, and they give out free citric acid. You might have to go for a counselling session though.

Brilliant :rotfl:

Thank you all for your posts and advice. I think I'll have to set up a counselling group for kettle descalers and cordial makers - may we'll then be aqble to get free citric acid, but the way things are they're probably more likely to give us free heroin!

Thanks also to the person who pointed out that kettles were cheaper in Tescos than the descaler i found - Now that is really environmentally friendly - throw your kettle away instead of descaling it.

Sadierhianne

Someone mentioned that citric was probably no longer sold because it is cheap - it is actually quite an expensive product these days which possibly has soemthing to do with some of its possible uses - i am flabbergasted.

I thought that the only bombs made from Citric acid were bath bombs.

That's not a bad price either and the bicarb is sold in the same place.

Shona_3

Is citric acid also good for de-rusting, sure I saw that on TV once....

Italiastar, the change in packaging of paracetamol made a huge difference in overdose rates, a very elegant piece of research done in Australia. Most overdoses are impulsive and fueled by alcohol (as anyone who has worked in casualty will know). Swigging down half a tub of paracetamol after 2 bottles of buckfast because he/she was snogging someone else was really easy to do and a fast track to a liver transplant. Getting 12 paracetamol out of the foil pack, drunk, is usually too much hard work and even if you do, treatable.
The determined suicide as you say will go from store to store, but these are much rarer.
Cheerful eh?

sly666

I wanted to buy 25 kilos of citric acid powder to descale chemical pipes.
Found it impossible, even our chemical supplier said they have stopped selling as its being used to cut with drugs.
Funny as we have no problems buying Hydrogen Peroxide in 25 litre drums!

skim

Shona wrote: »

Is citric acid also good for de-rusting, sure I saw that on TV once....

Italiastar, the change in packaging of paracetamol made a huge difference in overdose rates, a very elegant piece of research done in Australia. Most overdoses are impulsive and fueled by alcohol (as anyone who has worked in casualty will know). Swigging down half a tub of paracetamol after 2 bottles of buckfast because he/she was snogging someone else was really easy to do and a fast track to a liver transplant. Getting 12 paracetamol out of the foil pack, drunk, is usually too much hard work and even if you do, treatable.
The determined suicide as you say will go from store to store, but these are much rarer.
Cheerful eh?

the right acid to use is oxalic or phosphoric

skim

sly666 wrote: »

I wanted to buy 25 kilos of citric acid powder to descale chemical pipes.
Found it impossible, even our chemical supplier said they have stopped selling as its being used to cut with drugs.
Funny as we have no problems buying Hydrogen Peroxide in 25 litre drums!

Try companies that supply dyehouses - they supply it by the ton - pm me if you need to get company names.

xxdiddiexx

myrnahaz wrote: »

I used to buy citric acid from the chemist and mix it with sugar and red colouring to make sherbert for my kids. They DID get a bit wild after eating it now I come to think about it; I thought it was the red colouring I used.....

Funny .. :D