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Default OK to use washing soda for wall preparation?

On Sat, 03 May 2008 22:28:08 +0100, Zakko wrote:

Or maybe washing/baking soda could work because sodium bicarbonate used
to be the major ingredient in early formulations of Sugar Soap.


Washing soda is sodium carbonate, not bicarbonate.

Can you still get washing soda? ISTR that it was almost always 'made'
by ICI.

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