Jacquard Products Soda Ash Dye Fixer, 1 Pound Bag

This JACQUARD soda ash powder is excellent to use in my flux mixes when melting metals and doing mineral testing. This soda ash absorbs impurities like iron when trying to purify metals in a high molten state and pulls them out into the slag. Easy to use in flux mixes and this multiuse product works good for many uses. Good find!

This is a must-have if you're using it with the procion dye. I've dyed quite a few things with this and have always been a happy camper. It won't help much with polyester if your dye isn't synthetically rated, but blends and cotton work well. DO NOT NEGLECT THE INSTRUCTIONS. Wait 15 monutes before adding this.

The color is so vibrant

Super easy to use and seems to work great! Huge difference between no soak and soaking for 20-30 minutes. Definitely worth getting!

Good for delivery and packaging.

Good price compared to other brands. Use for tye dye so works great.

If you're doing tie dye, put the soda ash and your undyed cloth or clothing into a bucket of water together BEFORE you dye your fabric,. This prevents the colors from running like they would if you did a soda ash bath after your cloth was already tie dyed. This product works insanely well. You just need to use it right! (If you're not doing tie dye, but instead you're just doing a dye bath where you fill a bucket with water and dye, you can add soda ash later and it's no problem) More review and tips on how to use soda ash below I've been using this soda ash for about a year now. It works REALLY well, pretty much any color you dye stays put after you rinse out the dye. Can be added to dye bath immediately or later depending on preference. Both methods lock in the color. I haven't tried this with natural dye, but I know that with MX dyes or RIT dye this works perfectly. You don't need a ton of it. maybe a quarter to half cup per medium sized (about a foot tall x foot wide bucket). so if you're not dying a ridiculous amount of yardage this bag should last a decent while.

- Soda Ash, Washing Soda, Sodium Carbonate, or Na2CO3 - several names for a multi-use substance. Just don't confuse it with sodium BIcarbonate, which is baking soda, and much milder than this soda ash. - Jacquard sells this as a fixative for its like of Procion/Fiber-Reactive dyes. What it does is "tie" the molecules of the dye to the cellulose of plant-based fibers, i.e., cotton, flax, and naturally-sourced rayons, which - if I recall correctly! - are basically re-polymerized cellulose that itself is obtained from various plants, especially bamboo, beech trees, and hemp. Beyond being a dye fixative, it has various cleaning applications. Note, though, that this isn't the same as the washing soda sold in the laundry aisle of the grocery; this is a "dense" form which is not hydrates, whereas the laundry form has several water molecules attached to each molecule of sodium carbonate. The end effect is that this dense form is stronger, therefore more basic/more caustic. So one does need to take precautions when using this dense form of sodium carbonate, since it *can* cause a chemical burn. At the same tome, though, the format of this sodium carbonate by Jacquard is about the safest possible, because the granules, while small enough to dissolve well, also are just heavy enough so that they won't be easily blown or lifted into the air, as a powder would. So it's harder to breathe-in any of the granules. But do wear good chemical-resistant gloves and eye-protection, and become acquainted with safety precautions. Jacquard's Soda Ash can be *very* useful, but it's important to be safe!

Este producto lo he utilizado como mordente para realizar un tinte en una tela y me ha sido muy útil.

Used in a recipe to develop 35mm film in beer and it works, 500 ML of beer, 50 gr of soda powder and 15 gr of pure vitamin C

This soda ash is perfect for cleaning the turbulators on oil boilers, which is what i purchased it for. A1 item.

I don’t have experience of another so can’t make a judgement, however, it does the job.

Delivers as needed