Milliard Borax Powder - Pure Multipurpose Cleaning Agent, Laundry Detergent Booster (2 lb)

(3/12/21 updated. The solution worked twice and I'm about to use it a third time. Each ant problem is in a different part of the house and after a few months. First time was in the kitchen and I put a dry powdered sugar / borax mix under the dishwasher near where ants were getting in the house. It worked well after a few days. The second time a few months later ants were coming from near the front door. I put down a liquid sugar mix on cotton balls and worked better and faster in just two days. This third time, ants are coming from the family room near the kitchen. My guess is one colony dies but another tries the house after some time. This problem started in 2019-20 when we had an overly rainy season. 10+ years in this house and the ant problems are recent. Still highly recommended). Highly recommended to get rid of ants for at least a few days. I'm still waiting to see if they come back (3/12/21 update - they don't come back. I had ants return but after several months and from a different area of the house). What worked: I put down a paper plate (edges cut off so the plate was mostly flat to the floor) with 3 parts powered sugar (about 1/4 cup) and 1 part borax. Dry, no water. I put the plate down under the dishwasher where the ants seemed to be coming from. The ants were crawling all over the dry powdered sugar mix for two days. What also worked: On the second day of bait I put down cotton balls on a paper plate with edges cut off and the cotton balls were soaked with 4 parts granulated sugar (about 1/4 cup) and 1 part borax dissolved in some water. The recipes on the web had way too much water. It only takes a little water to dissolve everything so you wind up with a thin, watery paste instead of soup. I only watched the first ant on the cotton ball and for one minute the ants seemed to be kissing the cotton ball. I think it was drinking the sugar water but whatever it was doing it seemed happy. The ant did not move at all for at least a minute. I never looked again to see how much the ants swarmed the cotton balls vs the dry powdered sugar but they did swarm both dry and liquid mixtures and after a few days never returned. What didn't work: Dry granular sugar and borax. I put that down on bait day number two and the ants didn't go for it at all. I dissolved that mix in some warm water and did the cotton ball thing above. Background: I had a mini invasion of ants and some ants eventually found crumbs behind the kitchen trash can. In over a decade this was only the second time we had ants in the house. The first day we killed 30 ants by hand and the second day we killed 50. That second day we realized the ants found the crumbs behind the trash can. Despite sweeping up the crumbs from all over the kitchen the ants kept coming back. The third day we killed 120 ants and the day after, 250. By then the ants were searching for other places for food and were crawling up walls including up and on the kitchen island which they hadn't done in the past few days. That fourth day the exterminator put spray and granules down around the perimeter of the house. Before the exterminator came I had seen where the ants were coming in the house. They had a 15' highway along the basement wall and then up a corner underneath the siding to somewhere in the kitchen. Two hours after the exterminator left the ants were still on their highway, going back and forth like nothing was bothering them. I decided to hit their highway with siding mold cleaner (a bleach solution) which stopped them for 3 days but then they started coming back. I decided to go with the sugar-borax mix based on a recommendation from a coworker. With the sugar-borax mix down the ants stopped wandering all over the kitchen and stayed within a foot or so of the mix. After three day on the mix the ants were completely gone.

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I had forgotten just how many applications Borax has... I used it faithfully years ago--in laundry, garbage disposal, trash bins, on carpets, in closets, in vehicles--it's effective anywhere dank odors can accumulate, and when you've got good borax powder on hand, you've got an economical, honest, odor free, chemically simple and stable all-purpose helper. It controls spiders and bugs from invading boxes in storage and in the garage, is useful in keeping cat boxes fresh; it's great in barns and stables, on concrete... Ever notice how aged bed linens, no matter how crisp, bleached and Febreezed when you stored them, after a few weeks folded on the shelf you go to change sheets and eww, there's that slight funky wiff of morning breath and scalp? (Yes, that happens to everyone lol) Makes you want to return them to the laundry, or maybe donate them to the rag-bag or charity, but don't! Just start adding borax to your washer, and no more stink. I even make sachets (from cut sections of old panty hose) filled with equal parts clay litter and borax. Just pop into winter boots and sneakers - - after a long day this draws the moisture and odor out like a magnet! Once you've explored its possibilities, there's no replacing it around the house. However, QUALITY MATTERS. Over time, unfortunately, the product on store shelves seemed to have increasingly declined, became more chalk- powdery, dusty, less crystallized, and not (frankly) effectively worth the mess it now leaves behind. So when I came across Millard's Borax here on Amazon, I was skeptical but hopeful... And was not disappointed! :) Once again I have a go-to around the house. It dissolves nicely in the washer, it's clean and bright, and no carpet powder can match it - -did I mention flea control? Plus no clogging the vacuum with superfine dust, no crusty residue left on countertops, no blobs of undissolved product in the washer or on wet clothes... It's even septic-safe and eco-friendly. What's not to love? Add that it comes in a sturdy plastic bag, so no soaked cardboard sticking to the shelf or useless bricks of the stuff in the bottom of the box. I could go on, but... Well, I hadn't intended to write a commercial, I haven't been compensated or been given discounts or free samples of anything from anyone--but when I received an nice email from the Millard family thanking me for trying their product and asking if I'd give an honest review, I felt moved to do so. In fact, if subscribe- and - save is an option, I'm going to sign up! The money I'll save in the long run will more than pay the bill. :)

Ever feel like your laundry detergent is just not trying hard enough? Enter Milliard Borax Powder Laundry Booster—the Robin to your detergent’s Batman, the... well, you get the idea. This magical white powder promises to turbocharge your washing machine’s performance, like giving your clothes a double espresso shot. Stains? Odors? Milliard Borax is here to say, “Not on my watch.” It’s basically like sprinkling fairy dust on your laundry, except this dust is way more serious and much less sparkly. Warning: May cause you to question why you ever trusted detergent alone. Also, your clothes might get so clean they’ll start judging your life choices. And yes, it does have that charming “chemical” vibe, so don’t go licking the washing machine drum anytime soon. Bottom line? If you want your laundry to go from “meh” to “I could eat off this” (though you really shouldn’t), this booster has got your back. Just don’t forget it’s laundry powder, not a seasoning.

Milliard Borox was about to go out of stock in the 10 lb size, so I pounced on it and ordered it. I've used Borox for years, and wondered if this brand was different than another. I came to realize that I wasn't using enough in my laundry, so I upped the quantity a bit. I'm glad I did that as my clothes do actually come out cleaned better and smell better. I haven't used it yet in other cleaning projects, but am looking forward to seeing what else it shines in its power. I also liked the price point and glad I was able to purchase it in a bag, as it seems to not clump as it would do in a box.

We've been seeing increasing numbers of carpenter ants in our home over the last three years, to the point it was getting pretty bad and we were thinking about calling in a pest control company (something we didn't want to do). We also have a cat who loves licking baseboards, (I know, we don't understand it either), so we definitely didn't want to use anything toxic! A quick online search gave us the recipe for a non-toxic carpenter ant bait made with boric acid, so we bought this product. We followed the instructions (below), and 24 hours later, we found one flattened and very dead ant, where we usually saw many. That's it. Just one. There are now zero carpenter ants in the house, and it's been over two weeks. We've also put the bait out on our wood deck (where the cat can't get it, and the rain won't either), by using an inverted margerine tub with "doors" cut into it all around the outside. Here's the recipe: Mix 2/3 cup boric acid with 1/3 cup powdered sugar in a ziplock, then spooned the dry mixture into small caps (from the recyling bin) and place under furniture and heat registers, or wherever you've seen ants (but out of reach of playful pets). Then we added another step: After looking at the powder in the caps, we couldn't figure out how the ants were going to carry it to the nest -- it was so powdery! We decided to use a small syringe or eye-dropper to drip small drops of water into each cap (you don't want to flood it!). Over night, the powder absorbed the water and dried to a hard crystaline consistency, which we then used a screw driver to carefully crack into small chunks. Then we put the caps where the cat couldn't find them. AND? It worked like a charm! No more ants! And no costly, toxic pest control!

I was looking for a good laundry boosting product that would help with stains and musty smells. After a bit of online research, I decided to try this product. Unfortunately, it ruined multiple shirts. Not all color shirts in the load were affected, but there were 4 that were either very faded and discolored or looked like they were sort of tie-dyed. One was just a normal T-shirt of my son's, and the other three were my husbands that he's had awhile and were still in really good shape beforehand. My husband had to donate his since they were no longer wearable, but my son kept his, which I will include a picture of. Also, the powder almost solidifies in large clumps the washing machine and doesn't seem to dissolve at all. Very frustrating, but lesson learned. It sounds like this product works well for other things, like making slime, termite control, etc.; but using it for colored laundry is a risk! To note, I have since been using Microbalance EC3 Laundry Additive (https://smile.amazon.com/Micro-Balance-EC3-Laundry-Additive/dp/B01JBON5MA/) for the musty smell control and it has been wonderful!

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