Talk:Sodium perborate

message: Just added a little bit about the hazards of this chemical. I have personal experience with sodium perborate and how irritating it is to skin. This stuff feels like a bee sting especially around the facial area.
As is often the case what is harmful in one situation is helpful in another.  The item is used in a product called Vince by Lactona which apparently is now distributed by Lee Pharmaceuticals.  As to the former product I can attest that as a cure for inside the mouth irritaions and sores it works great.  I have used it for many years. No doubt the amount used is not large. Pugetkid (talk) 16:20, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The level of irritant

message: I rewrote the sentence "The formulae of the mono and tetra hydrates can therefore be written as Na2H4B2O8 (anhydrous) and Na2H4B2O8.4H2O respectively." because it seemed inconsistent that "monohydrate" was tagged "(anhydrous)", and blindly assumed that anhydrous was correct because it was the formula without a •xH2O in it. It was cited, but it was either not correct or else needed to be rewritten to explain more clearly (the the plain-language meaning was self-contradictory).
I don't know what it should be. But if the parent formula is NaBO3, then the dimer would be Na2B2O6, yet the structure is actually that plus two H2O equivalents, so it's NaBO3•H2O. The lede counts hydrates per NaBO3 unit (the empirical formula, "tetrahydrate, NaBO3·4H2O") but the sentence I question appears to count per dimer (the molecular formula, Na2H4B2O8.4H2O). If that latter is correct, its empirical is NaBO3·3H2O, which the lede says is tri. So I removed the whole commentary on different formulas of different hydrates and left just The formula of the sodium salt is thus Na2H4B2O8." DMacks (talk) 20:54, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! DMacks (talk) 04:54, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual molecular formulas 

message: In reference to this chemical being used in tooth whitening products, a BBC TV program in the UK called "Watchdog" on 11th June 2015 stated that Sodium Perborate is toxic, carcinogenic, and banned in the EU. Similar info can be found on the internet, for example on http://www.theteethwhiteningschool.co.uk/blog/teeth-whitening-solutions-sodium-perborate/   "This is classed as a dangerous substance in Europe due to foetal cytotoxic effects. It has long been banned in Japan and now with the European commission changing its stance on this substance it can no longer be used for “cosmetic” purposes (however medical has a different criteria)".
Since the chemical may still be illegally found in some EU tooth whitening products, and with Wikipedia being used as a reference by many people on the safety of the ingredients in their products, I think it vital that the article's content page be amended to include this important safety information.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zenn'r (talk • contribs) 16:02, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Use in tooth whithening

message: Proposing to merge two brand-name products (Bocasan and Amosan)  to their generic name, for reasons of short text and context. Klbrain (talk) 14:07, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 21:39, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal