Official Complaint :-p

**Coco** · 09-08-2009, 09:13 AM

Well now I don't know what to believe!!!

If you use a toothbrush, when you next clean your teeth, you'll taste washing powder. Have beautiful nice white teeth though

**ps_bond** · 10-08-2009, 08:35 AM

Sorry for the short post - I'm not that keen on the IPod virtual keyboard, so things tend to be a bit truncated.

Lemon juice will react with rust stains on washable fabrics, but you need to be fairly quick to nobble it. There seems to be a few variations on the theme, what I've done before is just soak the stain in lemon juice for a few hours then wash. Try not to let it dry first. There's some suggestions to pour salt onto the stain as well as the juice... Not tried that.

Other methods include the use of oxalic acid - and I've even seen some suggestions to use "Naval Jelly", which is a thickened dilute phosphoric acid used for rust removal (closest thing in the UK I know of is one of the Jenolite rust removers).

Hmm, I wonder if a mashed up rhubarb stalk would remove a rust stain? There's some oxalic acid in that...
Added - more searching: http://www.tipking.co.uk/tip/5444.html
So, stew the rhubarb then use the liquid - and eat the rhubarb?

**caroleallen** · 10-08-2009, 03:16 PM

Don't even start me on stains! I've got a banana stain on a new shirt and it just won't shift!

On the subject of feeling inadequate, I've just had a week at the Birmingham Jewellery School and came away wondering why I bother. It's all relative really as we're all at different levels of the food chain.

**bustagasket** · 10-08-2009, 04:08 PM

what a weird direction this post took lmao

**EmmaRose** · 10-08-2009, 07:16 PM

Su
trust me we all have days (or weeks or months or eternities) like that. Human nature to doubt your own work and wish you were like others. I certainly don't feel talented or clever (I know alot of theory and read alot but putting it into practice, well it never quite works the same