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<p>[QUOTE="LemonEcstasy, post: 528022, member: 10099"]Thank you for all the replies.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It was a little bit difficult to find ammonia in Japan, as the most common one is ammonia water 25%, but I managed to find it in powder form as a fertilizer, I hope it's going to be OK. On the packaging it says its ammonia hydrogen 21%, so I guess it's impossible to get pure ammonia.</p><p>The only problem is that the vase is quite big so it will be difficult to keep the proportions in my bathtub, but what percentage should it be? 50:50 would make 10%, ammonia water is 25%. I'm confused.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Same with Peroxide, there are different kinds and it seems that the one used for hair and the pharmacy ones are different. But I believe the pharmacy one is hydrogen peroxide (oxygen bleach) and it is commonly used in Japan for laundry instead of chlorine bleaches. I have a big pack of it in my house as until today I had thought it was baking soda... lol. Oxi clean is also an oxygen bleach (hydrogen peroxide). The other day I used hydrogen peroxide paste to clean a burnt enamel pot and it did wonders (once again I thought it was baking soda), I just added some water and left it to dry overnight and rinsed it off with vinegar in the morning. I had to repeat it 3 times, got rid of almost all the discoloration. So maybe this is the key.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LemonEcstasy, post: 528022, member: 10099"]Thank you for all the replies. It was a little bit difficult to find ammonia in Japan, as the most common one is ammonia water 25%, but I managed to find it in powder form as a fertilizer, I hope it's going to be OK. On the packaging it says its ammonia hydrogen 21%, so I guess it's impossible to get pure ammonia. The only problem is that the vase is quite big so it will be difficult to keep the proportions in my bathtub, but what percentage should it be? 50:50 would make 10%, ammonia water is 25%. I'm confused. Same with Peroxide, there are different kinds and it seems that the one used for hair and the pharmacy ones are different. But I believe the pharmacy one is hydrogen peroxide (oxygen bleach) and it is commonly used in Japan for laundry instead of chlorine bleaches. I have a big pack of it in my house as until today I had thought it was baking soda... lol. Oxi clean is also an oxygen bleach (hydrogen peroxide). The other day I used hydrogen peroxide paste to clean a burnt enamel pot and it did wonders (once again I thought it was baking soda), I just added some water and left it to dry overnight and rinsed it off with vinegar in the morning. I had to repeat it 3 times, got rid of almost all the discoloration. So maybe this is the key.[/QUOTE]
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