where can I buy Glauber's salt?


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Message: I need to buy some glauber salts. Can you provide me with an address for this product? I can't find a place that sells it.

Glauber's salt is the chemical sodium Sodium Sulfate Handbook of Deposits, Processing & Use sulfate decahydrate, sometimes used instead of sodium chloride in immersion dyeing, especially with wool and nylon. It is valuable for leveling with acid dyes, and is sometimes used with fiber reactive dyes to produce more intense dyeing with the phthalocyanine dye Procion Turquoise MX-G.

Glauber's salt is widely available from almost any company that specializes in supplying dyes at retail, such as PRO Chemical & Dye, Dharma Trading Company, etc. For contact information for these and other companies from which to buy Glauber's salt, look at my page of Sources for Dyeing Supplies Around the World.

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Glauber's Salt Granules

Also known as Mirabilite mineral, or Mang Xiao. A colorless hydrated sodium sulfate used as a cathartic and diuretic. Glauber's salt was judged ''a mild and useful purgative.'' Second only to Rush's Pills, it was the laxative of choice for the sea captains. It was named for Johann Glauber (1604-1668), who apparently was the first to identify this chemical in its natural form, in a hot spring in Hungary, calling it sal mirabile. Lewis and Clark frequently likened the flavor of some of the spring waters they tasted to that of Glauber's salt.

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