Borax (sodium tetraborate)

INCI: Sodium Borate Borax (sodium tetraborate) is an alkaline borate salt, water soluble, with many uses from food to personal care products. Common uses include:

• Household Uses: Used in laundry and cleaning products.

• Soaps: Used in hand washes & soaps & tooth bleaching mixes

• Food additive: Foods such as caviar, as cooking ingredient

• Gold Mining: Used for Gold extraction in small scale mining units

• Iron Welding: Borax mixed with Ammonium Chloride is used as flux while Iron & steel Welding

• Insecticide: Can be used to make Ant and Cockroach baits.

• Water Softening: Borax is often used to treat hard water

• Enamel Glazes: Important ingredient in enamel glazes

• Inedible Inks: Used in manufacturing inedible ink for dip pens

• pH controller: Used in swimming pools to maintain pH level of water

• Color Fires: Imparts color or green tints to color fires

• Fertilizer: Used as micronutrient fertilizer to correct boron deficient soils

• Wood rot — used against wood rot and insect attack in wooden articles

NOTE:      For the 25kg size, delivery will take an additional 5-7 working days, as some couriers will not carry 25kg and delivery will have to be made via truck.

Safety Information
Regular use of borax for medical purposes may cause skin irritation. Exposure to Borax Dust may also lead respiratory diseases.