Saponista
Well-Known Member
I just contacted a chemical supplier as I wanted to purchase sodium Percarbonate to add to homemade laundry powder along with co soap and washing soda. He already lets me have cheap small quantities of washing soda so I thought the Percarbonate would be fine. He was really weird about it, said it was massively dangerous and explosive and that people used it to make bombs so he wasn't willing to sell me any. He also said something about it being very reactive with salt so if I did buy some from somewhere else to be really careful with it. Now I have found a supplier of Percarbonate, but the conversation with him has left me rattled. What if I inadvertently mix it with something I'm not supposed to and explode myself!!!! I would love a chemists explanation of why it's so dangerous and what not to mix it with (things that I might put in laundry powder) to make sure I stay safe. I have seen it as an ingredient in store bought laundry powder containing washing soda and soap so how dangerous can it really be?