Lifeboy Carbolic......takes me straight back to my teenage years....only thing that would mask the smell of cowcrap and silage (yes, I worked on a farm)....and the only thing that masked the carbolic....Brut..... Thinks.....took me ages to discover girls....or girls to discover me.....
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 i also noticed that dri pak are on ebay selling there liquid soap as pure laundry soap so this is pre dissolved no more flakes  i have been looking for a product like this for a while so i am very happy but the bugs in my garden wont be ha ha!
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 liquid soap. excellent. thanks for the heads up moleydee.
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 Three cheers for moleydee, I've just run out of soap flakes and they seem to have run out in Morrisons too.
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 Bloody hell. I saw the name "Croteen" and it took me back somewhat...
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They still sell Grannies Soap Flakes in my Local Tesco Extra (Longton Stoke-on-Trent). First got to know about them on one of the OM "threads". By the way dont the makers of Event fabric suggest you use a detergent.
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Sometimes you need to use a non-bio detergent because the crud is just too much for soap - even Paramo suggest non-bio periodically. Then wash again in soap (to get rid of any detergent residue) then TX10 or whatever
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 I was in Boots t'other day and noticed that they sell boxes of soap flakes.
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 Soap flakes are so crap. You have to spend an hour making sure they've all dissolved before you immerse the woolly you are using them to wash. After you wash your wooolly and have rinsed it about ten times and just when you think you've got it cracked you find that your it has a dozen spots of soapy gunge well worked into the weave so you have to spend the next hour getting them out and then you have to start rinsing all over again.
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or just pour hot water over them in a jug and stir and watch them dissolve. or buy liquid soap which has done that for you already.
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Soap flakes are so crap. You have to spend an hour making sure they've all dissolved before you immerse the woolly you are using them to wash. After you wash your wooolly and have rinsed it about ten times and just when you think you've got it cracked you find that your it has a dozen spots of soapy gunge well worked into the weave so you have to spend the next hour getting them out and then you have to start rinsing all over again. Cant say I've had this problem.....but then I dissolve them in hot water first....
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 Absolutely - dissolve them in hot water first, and if you're really impatient use a whisk or your blender! Soap flakes' only problem is that they are extremely mild - my eVent jacket appears to be so dirty only cheese graters, detergent and sandpaper will remove all the dirt and stop it leaking. However, following advice from Montane to scrub the inside of the jacket, in neat detergent, I'll give it another shot...
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.jpg) Put the soapflakes in a pyrex jug pour on boiling water stir until desolved, pour through a fine siv <like a sugar sifter>into the washing machine.Look at the gunge you,ve collected in the siv.
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Your concentrations must be wrong, or your water isn't hot enough, or your stirring is not vigorous enough!
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Mr Fuller Concentration,s always been my problem, hotter than boiling I can,t do in an open top jug. Any suggestions?.
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"Any suggestions?" patience. stir, have a cup of tea, stir again. belated happy birthday by the way waldo. you could always use dri pak liquid soap instead.
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Gee thanks Parky that,s you AND the Wife who remembered. I try not to remember the eighty previous. Glad you suggested tea though. .
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well you've already boiled the kettle. may as well put it to good use.
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I'd say reduce the conc until it all dissolves! Once you've reached saturation then that'll be it, so keep adding but don't reach this point. I've never tried it, but you could use a pressure cooker with your water to raise BP and then more will dissolve. Drastic, however...
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