Citric Acid - 1 lb Pure for Bath Bombs - No Fillers or Anti-Caking Agents

I needed something to clean my various essential oil diffusers with, and the instructions online (and that came with the diffusers) all listed citric acid. Curious what citric acid IS, and what else I can do with it, I realized…you can make CHEESE with it. (Well, with citric acid and a few other ingredients). Cheese making had never been on my to-do list before, and suddenly – I had to make cheese.So the to-do list that day was quite interesting:1) Clean diffusers2) Make cheese(My family was horrified and amused in equal measures)So what is citric acid? It’s the acids present in citrus fruits. So far, this is all making sense.WARNING: When your bag of citric acid arrives, DO NOT open the bag, stick your nose in, and INHALE DEEPLY. (I was curious what it smelled like). I have never experimented with mind-altering substances, but I think the powder traveled far enough up my nostrils and into my brain, and then tingled everything around, to be a similar experience.Back to work on that to-do list.The Halechem citric acid is 100% organic. If you are making edibles (like cheese), that is a big plus.The organic nature of the citric acid is not so important for cleaning the diffusers (this took exactly 30 seconds). Here’s how you do it.- Make a solution with one tablespoon of citric acid and 100ml of warm water. Let this sit in the water bin inside the diffuser for around 10 minutes- Dump the solution out of the diffuser, rinse with warm water, and repeat a few times- Now your diffuser is nice and cleanOk, time to make cheese.There are heaps of recipes online to make cheese and I’m not going to share here which ones we used. Why? Because we tried 4 (1 mozzarella, 3 ricotta) and they worked in various degrees of success and failure. They don’t all call for citric acid. What every cheese recipe on the planet SHOULD call for, is to have multiple girlfriends present, and to be drinking wine while making said cheese. (Enough said). I added some photos of the cheese while it was underway, so you can see citric acid at work.I discovered use #3 that same day when I added some citric acid to my dishwasher and it made all the crap that sticks to the dishes, dissolve. Yay. This is especially useful when cleaning up every single dish in your kitchen that you made messy while making cheese.So the bottom line – there are apparently 400 fun things you can do with citric acid.And, the bag reseals perfectly, so it will last you a really long time. Just don’t inhale it when you first open it.* I received the citric acid for evaluation and review

Oh, my heavens! Where has this been all my life? I wanted this to use to clean with and it is absolutely amazing. I live in California and my toilets ended up with scale on the bottom of the bowl from not flushing regularly due to the drought. I cleaned them, but still had the scale develop. I had heard about using coca cola, but knew phosphoric acid probably wasn't as strong as citric acid so I tried a knock off mountain dew soda. It worked well, but since I am making every attempt I can to go green, I decided to purchase the citric acid instead.I poured three quarters of a cup in the toilet and let it sit all night and my toilets have never been so clean. Then I added the citric acid for bleaching power to my homemade cleanser scrub. While it was already a great cleanser, the citric acid was just the extra oomph to provide an even more extraordinary clean. My metal and glass cookware have never been so clean. I also added it to my eco-friendly DIY multi-purpose cleaner and my counters, windows and stainless have such a wonderful clean. It really cuts the grease. But where I was floored was when I used it in the shower.I have a mostly glass shower with tile, grout and a plastic drain pan. The drain pan has a pattern of little round circles that provide a non-slip texture. I never have been able to get this pan completely clean, no matter how much scrubbing I did. I used all kinds of nasty chemical products along with a variety of different scrubbing implements like sponges and eraser pads. It still always looked dirty to me.The pan also had some staining that never came out.I scrubbed the tiles,grout and glass with my homemade cleanser and was amazed at the how easy it was to clean the soap scum and water marks off the surfaces. The water just rolled off it sheets. Can clean be beautiful?The pan needed some extra help. I put the citric acid on it directly and scrubbed it in and left it on for about an hour. After I rinsed it all off and it looked like a brand new pan. I am amazed at the cleaning power of citric acid. The grout in spots also needed a bit more help so I did the same with it and it also came out amazingly clean.My homemade cleanser is a quarter cup of baking soda, a quarter cup of diatomaceous earth and 2 tablespoons of citric acid. I highly recommend citric acid for a greener eco-friendly cleanser for kitchens and bathrooms.My next plan is to try it in the wash instead of bleach.

The price these grocery stores want for this stuff is outrageous! I will say it is "cheapest" if you purchase it in the bulk foods section, but for maybe 1 1/4 cup worth...its about $9! So This was an awesome tip!My daughter had bought some luxurious bath bombs from the one marvelous store in the mall we love and for 6 bath bombs, she said she spent $89!. She was lovely and surprised me by gifting me three of those beauties for Mother's Day.So, naturally I had to experiment with the DIY's online, gave her one...annnd she just texted me "how did you make those? They made my skin so soft!" ( Not to mention leaving the tub slippery I was certain, which she confirmed).Needless to say, she wants to come over and make some now. Lol. Well, thanks to this huge bag and excellent price, we can make plenty...plenty of times!I made a "mini batch" and used the mini molds that I usually dont use except for the leftover mixture that is in the batch so nothing goes to waste, and made them as more of a shower steamer for allergies with lemon, lavender, eucalyptus essential oils. I cant say that it works better than the bulk foods grocery store value, but most certainly not worse! I just think both are quality products, but the cost per volume is much more economical So if you love or you have a 19 year old daughter spending her entire paycheck with her own love with these way overpriced (but yes, beautiful) luxury bath bombs, perhaps try Amazon's various colorants, molds, dried flowers, holographic glitters, wrappings, and other bath product producing materials. The cost goes SUCH A LONG WAY, that you could be done with Holiday gift giving by Father's Day weekend, and making memories in the meantime.