Washing soda is probably one of the ingredients in a lot of the cleaners you use, but what is washing soda exactly? Washing soda is the powdered form of a chemical compound called sodium carbonate.

It's endlessly versatile and you can make it yourself. Washing soda is a powerful cleaning agent that can brighten laundry and cut through grease. While baking soda and washing soda are both sodium ...

It looks and feels for all the world like laundry detergent. White. Coarse. Powdery. A mineral mined from vegetation in dry lake bottoms in the Middle East, kelp from Scotland and seaweed from Spain, ...