Pounderstretcher Oxi Powder Sodium Percarbonate content?

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Pounderstretcher Oxi Powder Sodium Percarbonate content?

Post by gobuchul » Wed Sep 07, 2016 3:15 pm

I use the "Wizz Oxi Powder" from Poundstretcher. It works out at £1.60 per kg.

The active ingredient of this stuff is sodium percarbonate.

Does anyone know or can hazard an educated guess, what percentage of this stuff is actual sodium percarbonate?

I tried getting a MSDS but I can't find one on the web.

Thought I would save some money and I had a look for suppliers of pure sodium percarbonate on line and it's a lot more expensive.

Now some of this cost will be delivery for a heavy item but even if I bought 25kg it would still be more expensive at about £2 per kg.


PS - I now use this instead of dishwasher tablets and it's better and a lot cheaper. :D

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Re: Pounderstretcher Oxi Powder Sodium Percarbonate content?

Post by Andy » Wed Sep 07, 2016 8:01 pm

Dunno, but it's cheap and works :) That's good enough for me.
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Re: Pounderstretcher Oxi Powder Sodium Percarbonate content?

Post by MyQul » Wed Sep 07, 2016 8:41 pm

From what I can glean from the interweb and pack/tub itself (as it usually says on it) about 30% SP. So I bought SP from ebay (85%) instead as it doesnt leave the residue OC's do

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Re: Pounderstretcher Oxi Powder Sodium Percarbonate content?

Post by gobuchul » Thu Sep 08, 2016 6:27 pm

I know this is a pretty dull post!

I have found the info I am looking for. It appears that it has these 3 ingredients in descending order:

SODIUM SULFATE A filler, does nothing. Apparently an effective laxative if you need one!
SODIUM CARBONATE PEROXIDE The cleaner 30 - 60%
SODIUM SESQUICARBONATE A water softener 1- 5%

So I guess that the SC content will be closer to 30% most of time as the SS is very cheap. Which means that it costs about £4 - £5 a kilo.

So there some savings to be had by buying "pure" SP.

After all that, not sure I will bother as I'll probably just make too strong mixtures and end up using more.

Bit of a pointless thread really...........,

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Re: Pounderstretcher Oxi Powder Sodium Percarbonate content?

Post by barneey » Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:05 am

The wizz oxy stuff does work, however if you can get involved in a group buy PBW can be had for <£8.00 a kg.
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