What is washing soda?

Washing soda cleans everything that could use a good scrub and is also one hundred percent natural. An indispensable household product for every family.

Washing soda (sodium carbonate), not to be confused with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), is extracted from the ash of plants and seaweed. It is also found on the bottom of temporary lakes, which recede as soon as it becomes too dry. A product made by nature and therefore also environmentally friendly, unlike regular cleaning products.

Benefits

Washing soda is an enormously versatile product in the household. Your laundry becomes extra clean, your oven will look like new again, it helps prevent blockages and your silverware will shine like never before.

Sodium carbonate (washing soda) softens water and thereby makes it easier for dirt to come loose. Below we tell you how you can use washing soda.

What can you do with it?

Berry juice, blood, ink, tea, coffee… is your laundry very dirty? Let it soak for 2 hours (or overnight) in a bucket of warm water with 100 grams of washing soda. Then put it in the washing machine as usual.

Your oven may seem impossible to clean, but with washing soda even this task becomes a piece of cake. Fill a bucket with 4 liters of hot water and add a coffee cup of washing soda to it. Just sponge that oven!

Washing soda is also ideal for preventing toilet blockages. Sprinkle some washing soda in the toilet and flush immediately. This way you keep the toilet and the pipes clean longer.

Let your silver jewelry and cutlery soak for fifteen minutes in 4 liters of warm water with a cup of washing soda. Rinse everything well with cold water afterwards and rub with a microfiber cloth.

Did you already know this about washing soda?

Washing soda occurs in nature and consists of the chemical compound that is designated as Na2CO3. Sounds complicated, but it means that washing soda is a salt of carbonic acid, a substance that creates many types of salt that are all designated as 'carbonate'.