Basic Household Chemicalls List

Home Chemicals List • Distilled is better • table salt (sodium chloride) borax Usually sold with laundry detergents, otherwise with household cleaners. • corn starch Grocery store item, found on the baking/spice aisle. white glue vinegar. • baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) food coloring epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) vodka Used as ethanol • sugar (sucrose) • flour. • alum • calcium chloride Sold as a laundry booster or road salt (de-icer). • bromothymol blue pH indicator Sold in water test kits for aquaria and swimming pools. • phenolphthalein pH indicator get this from a disappearing ink kit sold at a magic shop. It can be ordered. This chemical is used in color-change and disppearing ink projects. • sodium hydroxide (lye) Sold as a drain cleaner in the plumbing section of some hardware stores. Keep away from children. • glycerin Sold in the pharmacy section or in craft stores. • rock salt or sea salt Sold with spices. Sometimes you want sodium chloride with other trace elements. • lemon juice metamucil. • milk of magnesia • dishwashing detegent For hand washing, not dishwashing machines. • copper wire galvanized nails These are nails that have been coated with zinc. • mineral oil Baby oil is mineral oil. • citric acid Sold with canning supplies. • vegetable oil steel wool Found with cleaning supplies. • iodine stain It's easiest to order this from a chemical supply company or try to buy some from a local school. • unflavored gelatin Found with its flavored relatives.