Make your own DIY Health Salts. The perfect antidote to "overindulgence".
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2015
- In the UK you can buy an effervescent powder which has had various names in the past, including Liver salts and Health salts.
The powder dates back to the 1890's when it was sold as a medicinal compound to promote "inner cleanliness", and even now it is sold as a remedy for "symptoms of over-indulgence".
In use, a teaspoon of the medicinal powder is put into a glass of water and stirred thoroughly, whereupon it erupts into a fizzy drink. The taste is slightly sweet and salty. It's quite pleasant actually.
With happy memories of drinking it as a kid, I bought a tub of it recently and was surprised to see that the ingredients are really just household items. In fact, it's just one ingredient more than children's sherbet powder.
So I decided to make some....
Finding out they've discontinued this is a mere. Life saver, I'll be making it asap!
Also check out my "emo salts" video for a simpler version where the two powers are just mixed on demand.
I couldn't find andrews anywhere just small ones in local shops. Thanks for letting me know they're not making them anymore. I'll try this method out
They haven’t!??
Came to me in a brainwave half hour ago, can’t believe they’re discontinued. Nothing else works. So here we are 😂 ingredients ordered and a video to confirm 🎉 perfect
This video just came up on Google while I was searching for an alternative product with the same ingredients following the discontinuation, so I clicked it immediately (having been unable to find a single alternative product), and as soon as I heard Clive's dulcet tones I was thrilled! Can't wait to give this a try.
As my dear old mum would say:
"You don't want to drink too much of that - you'll be shitting through the eye of a needle."
What a lovely image, redolent of the work of William Blake.
Liquid propellant. Cleans you out, though, I suppose. ;-)
Sounds like the perfect stuff for organising day off school. Even the most forensic teacher loses all will to question further when confronted with reports of diarrhoea.
The price hawking on places like eBay make this video priceless. Thanks 😊
I winced, literally, when I saw the size of the pile of powder he added to the water in his glass. Oh, I thought to myself, I do hope your legs are strong and you have greased the waistband of your underpants, for if you are slow, in either respect, a tragic and messy outcome may be on your immediate horizon and even your very socks could be in danger from the tsunami soon to be unleashed from the bowels.
Ah, tis a lesson I had to learn the hard way myself recently. A bad ankle, an upstairs loo and a spoonful of Andrews do not a clean pair of trousers make. I just thank the Lord that I was not outside in the high street, or in the home of another when the abdominal earthquake struck.
As a result of this learned lesson I now partake only of the smallest amount of powders. Enough to cover just one quarter inch of a tea spoon tip in a quarter pint of water. The effect is quite efficacious without the need to try and run and buttock clench at the same time. While screaming, "Oh God! Nooooooo!"
BTW. You can make your own Sherbet with that Citric Acid, some Bi Carb and icing sugar. Oh the joy! (Sorry. I wrote that before I heard you mention it.)
Haha. I laughed so hard I couldn't move. So did you make it to the bathroom in time? This may work for my son who is always constipated and then bums up the toilet. I wonder if it would work on the toilet alone
naturegirl2110
I did not. I was ten feet short. It is very hard to hop and buttock clench.
Your son will think his bum has become a rocket booster if you dose him with this stuff. (Check the label for his age range)
You might want to warn him that a fart may well be not as innocent as it has always seemed in the past.
+InTheNameOfJustice Your name made me laugh even more. Running to the crapper In The Name of Justice. Did take it before or after eating? I've been away from Jamaica for a long time so I haven't used it in over 10 years and don't even remember the effects. I'll go order it from ebay (not readily avail in the states) the poor toilet will thank me.
naturegirl2110
Lol.
It will not matter if taken before or after eating. This stuff is like abdominal dynamite. What is there will be reduced to liquid.
Jamaica? Sold it there too did they?
The effects are slight. A little belly warbling is about the only warning something is up. Tell the poor bugger to stay near a loo for a day and it is probably better to avoid eating something hot like a Vindaloo curry. No point in adding to the misery.
+InTheNameOfJustice Haha. You're so funny. Yes Jamaica did hang on to some of the traditions from being ruled by England and still use some products that were introduced to us. Ham and family for Christmas dinner with fruit cake/Christmas pudding. Ariel laundry detergent, cod liver oil and many more things are still used today. Hard to find some of these products in the US tho when you it can be expensive. Even a floor polisher good luck finding that here. Hopefully we've all moved on from the floor polisher
The citric acid and sodium bicarbonate are basically just reacting each other way leaving you with 0 g citric acid, about 6 g of leftover sodium bicarbonate and 34g trisodium citrate. Interestingly, i priced it, and the trisodium citrate is cheaper than its constituent ingredients. I would think that they just do it the way they do because the reaction with all the fizzing makes it look quite interesting and medicine-y.
You are good! Thank You.
Perhaps it’s the sodium bicarbonate that works. As a child we frequently ran out of Andrews and then we were given sodium bicarbonate in warm water to drink. What a let down! I guess the taste was a big thing in making that icky tummy feel better.
So ironic I see this this morning Clive, I was literally driving around for ages last night trying to find a shop who stocked Andrews for my daughter to no avail!
Will be making my own from now on thank you.
Use castor/bakers sugar instead. It's just finely ground sugar. powdered/confectioners sugar has corn starch/corn flour in it. Or just put regular sugar in and put the whole powdered mix into a blender before adding to water.
to maximize the fizzing effect, you need to combine sodium bicarbonate and citric acid in the proper stoichiometric proportion so that all the bicarbonate reacts with all the citric acid and the most CO2 is produced. because one citric acid molecule has 3 acid groups and sodium bicarbonate had only one "alkaline source", they must be mixed in a molecular ration of 1:3 citric:bicarbonate. but the molecular weight of citric acid (192 g/mol) is much higher than that of sodium bicarbonate (84 g/mol), i.e. in a gram of citric acid, there are 3 times fewer molecules than in a gram of sodium bicarbonate. so the optimal ratio is 1 gram of citric acid for 1.3 grams of sodium bicarbonate. if you mix 20 g of citric acid with 20 grams of sodium bicarbonate, then some of the citric acid will remain un-reacted and you won't produce as much CO2 as you could! that's why in the original composition on andrew's liver salt, there's slightly more sodium bicarbonate than citric acid...
I think slight acidic taste is desirable in this case.
Perhaps the ratio is adjusted to give "taste" ?
In the 1960's I remember that Andrew's Liver Salts came in a tin that required something like a knife to prize off the lid.
From time to time mammy would give me a spoonful of the contents of the tin in a glass of water. I liked the fizz.
I don't know what the purpose was because I was certainly not indulging in alcoholic beverages when I was about 6 or 7 years old.
Its great for general stomach discomfort. Overindulgence doesn't necessarily mean drank too much. If you've ever eaten too much and feel super bloated it can ease that a lot. Also great for getting the old bowels moving.
Thanks for shining a light on the obfuscation of ingredients lists. For some reason it irritates me when companies do that. If they put water in something, don't call it "Dihydrogen Monoxide".
That said, I'm not sure I'd trust eBay to provide me with anything I'm planning to ingest. :P
WELL DONE..!!
Congratulations on a well presented detailed video...!! Good Graphics.! Well Detailed & Reasoned out Transcript.! & Clear Concise Audio..!!
That is a great idea...............Thanks
Thank you! You’ve saved me a good amount PLUS I am certain what’s in it
Strangely compulsively fascinating video!
Some times I cannot get a non alcoholic drink to quench my thirst and I resort to Andrews.... But It has never resulted in a sudden onset of 'Rangoon Crut'!
You might like this followup for a much more customisable version. ua-cam.com/video/K7HpDflQ6Kw/v-deo.html
A non -alcoholic drink to quench your thirst is called Water.
A non -alcoholic drink to quench your thirst is called Water.
If Bigclive had lived in the medieval, he certainly would have been one of the most famous alchemists. I still remember the one video where he tested some chemical of a batterie by liking it. Then he asked himself "does this taste poison"? ROFL
Or a witch.
he might have been hung , sorcery lol
I think most (if not all) "icing sugar" is actually fine sugar with corn starch. Also, to make the powders finer, you could just use a coffee grinder.
+sinephase Tate and Lyle Icing sugar is 97% sugar, 3% maize (corn) starch.
+sinephase Agreed. I don't buy "powdered" sugar. I make it in the coffee grinder from granulated sugar. Mixing the whole lot in a coffee grinder would solve to issue of the granular epsom salts.
Loved this stuff as a kid also. Gonna make some. thanks Clive
+Derek Thomson Check out the "emo salts" video. Much better result from just citric acid and bicarbonate of soda.
I have invented a new party drug........you mix snuff and sennapods together then snort it.......the snuff makes you want to sneeze, and the sennapods dares you !!!!...........
lol that comment made my day
@Robert Parkes great comment
Shaking a powder is not a very good way of mixing if you have differing grain sizes because the powder will sort by size with the largest grains rising to the top and the smaller ones sinking to the bottom, it's called 'Granular Convection'. The way to mitigate it is to mill the powder to uniform grain size. Probably not a massive problem in your small test batch of liver salts (quite how you enjoy the taste of them is a mystery to me, but that's another issue). That said, really enjoy your videos and look forward to many more.
Depends how you shake it. If you shake it vigorously and the stop suddenly, it will be mixed quite well.
Thanks. Andrews is gone now and this video is perfect - love the taste test!
I'd drop the Epsom salts down considerably to avoid any bathroom issues.
Welcome back old friend! Heartfelt thanks, I've just tried your recipe for heartburn and it both tastes and works exactly the same! Such a relief - in more ways than one! - after months of frustrated searching. I got the food-grade epsom salts and citric acid from Amazon, the bicarb and icing sugar I already had (20g of sugar is enough for me). So 20-20-20-20 is my recipe - so easy! Can't thank you enough.
It's also nice as a simpler 50/50 mix without sugar.
The reason my mix turned into 1 big lump over night: it turns out there are 2 different forms of Citric Acid;
Anhydrous (water-free) C6H8O7
or as a monohydrate (containing water) C6H8O7 · H2O
The anhydrous form crystallizes from hot water, while the monohydrate forms when citric acid is crystallized from cold water.
The monohydrate can be converted to the anhydrous form by heating above 78 °C (173 °F)
It melts at 156 °C (313 °F) so keep the oven temperature somewhere between those two.
So, if you want to make this stuff, try to get anhydrous citric acid. It saves you from going through the extra step of having to heat your citric acid to make it water-free.
I've wasted 350 grams of ingredients and learned the hard way :)
Thank you. :)
Heh, that "Andrews Salts" container strongly resembles an older Head & Shoulders shampoo bottle (although shorter). The color scheme is exactly the same and that "whirl" pattern also is quite similar :)
Thank you so much! as Andrews salt is nowhere to be found in Australia anymore. I ordered 500g from UK but so once I run out will try this recipe but now you have simplified my life!
See my other video about emo salts.
ua-cam.com/video/K7HpDflQ6Kw/v-deo.html
It's best not to pre-mix the citric acid and bicarbonate of soda, as they will absorb moisture and react.
The simple one with no sugar is very refreshing.
To be exact Epsom Salt is Magnesium Sulphate heptahydrate. Something I didn't think too much about either at first.
They sell citric acid and sodium bicarbonate at Wilko in the cleaning section, packed in nice boxes with warning to handle with gloves and eye protection. It tastes nice, though.
Not bad, good antacid too. In the USA you can get citrate acid at most stores that have Ball canning supplies. I also gave the epsom salts a one around through my electric coffee mill.
I also enjoyed as a beverage as a kid.
I'm appreciating the Glencairn!
When I was a child, my father used Bromo-Seltzer regularly. When I entered my experimental phase, I noted that the ingredients were citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. This being pre-internet, I simply mixed Realemon (lemon juice from concentrate that my mother used for cooking) and baking soda and it was gratifyingly fizzy. No sugar was listed in the ingredients, so I didn't think to add any.
In the USA we call this "Alka Seltzer". :-)
Makes you burp and/or poop and helps your leg cramps! Peachy stuff!!
With those ingredients its no wonder I was so regular as a kid !!!
I'll cut to the main question. Did you shit a massive baguette after all that?
+Siskin's Bits and Bobs I pebble-dashed the toilet with such force that I had to put my Addis skid-buster into a cordless drill to get it all off the porcelain.
+bigclivedotcom hahahahaha
:-O ,at least it gave you a good clear out!!
My goodness, that is some health powder!
Nice video!
I've done the same with liquid Gaviscon. That stuff is even more expensive and can be made pretty easy.
Saves me loads of money!
What’s that made of ?
Cheers for this clive, since moving to NZ 10 years ago, Ive not been able to source this until now, thx
Also see my "Emo salts" video for a simpler version that is refreshingly dry.
You may well be able to get Anhydrous versions of Epsom Salts and Citric Acid, this would be in powder form without any water of Crystallization.
Interestingly some salts which are normally coloured when they are hydrated, are actually white powders in their anhydrous form CuSo4 is a white powder, but the hydrated form is blue.
I would say you would want the grain size to be equal as if they aren't when you shake your tub they will separate and the heavier will gravitate to the bottom and vice versa.
Lifesaver! Many thanks. Don't supposed you have a recipe for Shippams Anchovy paste - another of life's little pleasures no longer available?
It was an excellent simple and cheap savoury on buttered toast, one of their range of pastes and spreads. They stopped making it about eight years ago. You can buy more expensive "Gentlemen's Relish" such as Patum Peperium which is OK and I add a little squeeze of lemon and thick buttered toast.
Don't forget to in take some alcohol to balance you're liver !
+line10cls Try it in wine! Fizzy wine!
When these were getting discontinued I stocked up on loads of tubs 😂 good to know when I run out I can just do this! Thanks
Look for my emo salts video. It's a much more refreshing version without the sugar.
I see you are a master shaker.
Health salts in a Glencairn glass... Classy!
I have seen citric acid in the local grocery and discount stores. It's either by the spices or in the baking/sugar isle (where you find stuff like food colorings, food aromas, artificial sweeteners.)
Wilcos do little tubs of citric acid I believe. It's in the home brewing section.
+nitelite78 That's good to know. I'll keep an eye out for that. But you can also get the food grade stuff online quite cheaply in bulk.
+bigclivedotcom do you guys have bulk stores like the bulk barrel in the UK? That's where I've found mine.
+sinephase Not really. The only similar thing near here just does cake mixes and cereal in their bins.
+bigclivedotcom Our local pharmacy has citric acid in 1Kg bags along with bicarb in similar size bags. I buy the citric acid for descaling
I might have to make some here in the Untied States of 'Murica!
LOL, just knew we would expect a hangover recipe not long after the carbonation of wine video :P
you could probably run the epsom salts through a food processor. Also, the powdered sugar contains corn starch, if it's anything like powdered sugar in canada/us
love it
ha nice to hear a scottish accent. listening from Paisley.
Spot on..
The use of Epsom Salts goes back a long way, I think first described by Nehemiah Grew in "Nature and Use of the Salt contained in Epsom and such other Waters" (1697). Grew was a medical doctor, botanist, microscopist and one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society. Clive is following in the footsteps of giants.
Thanks, that was excellent I.m a huge fan of Andrew’s and when overseas it’s never available. I’m going to make my own now but less sugar 😊
Check out my "emo salts" version with no sugar. It's refreshingly tart and very nice to drink.
17 August 1664: Up, and going to Sir W. Batten to speak to him about business, he did give me three, bottles of his Epsum water, which I drank and it wrought well with me, and did give me many good stools, and I found myself mightily cooled with them and refreshed. - Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys rock..and he is from south east London
Sarf East, surely?
If you make up the formula, do it in small batches , as the mixed ingredients will adsorb moisture and go off in storage. Another brand on the UK market was milk of magnesia, different in proportions and even fizzier.
A simpler answer is just to take the sodium bicarbonate neat, mixed with water, teaspoon to a cup of water, little fizz but just as effective!
+stephen wallin I never remember Milk of Magnesia being fizzy. It is quite thick & gloopey.
Milk of Magnesia, magnesium hydroxide, came in a blue glass bottle and was a thick white liquid that was not fizzy.
I think the baking soda might actually help since people used to use it for all sorts of stuff back in the day, it even is supposed to help prevent cancer, so might not be too bad to actually drink that stuff
Nice one Clive.apparently there is a "manufacturing problem" ATM and no-one has any of this in stock... Ran around all over trying to find it with no luck .. then I remembered in the dim distant past you'd done a vid about it... Made up 100g of it and you are right, it is indistinguishable from the real thing and girly's tummy is soothed. Cheers
Look for my "emo salts" version. The premixed version tends to absorb a lot of moisture from the air and form clumps.
Haleon have discontinued Andrews which is why you can't find any!
@@joanneaddy6262 ah right. Cheers. Even more reason to thank Clive for the recipe
also a "manufacturing problem" one reason for the lack of rice milk
You can flavour it a little by using some powdered jelly to replace 5g of the sugar. You just get the jelly flavour, as it will not gel, but will leave the gelatine as a deposit at the bottom of the glass as it does not dissolve fast when cold.
Growing up in Brooklyn in the 50's and 60's my dad and most of the hard drinking dock workers all used Bromo Seltzer and Brioski ( probably misspelled). They prommised the same end results. I wonder if Alka Selzer had same ingredients minus the Asperin compressed in a hard fizzi tablet.
Thanks Clive, after watching this video I've ordered a kilo of each powder from Amazon but instead of sugar I've ordered Xylitol as I'm diabetic. I was shocked to see that Andrews is 40% sugar & it's so expensive! I'll be making my own from now on.
Citric acid is available in the supermarkets in America, & I would suppose Britain too, because it's used in making jams & jellies, & home canning & preserving, & that kind of thing.
Thank you - I like to take this mix for relieving that 'heaty' feeling from too much sun and spicy food. Was gutted to find it's no longer available.
Also see my Emo Salt video for a dryer and more refreshing version. Simpler too.
Is it the magnesium that is actually the "active" ingredient, and the others just for taste/show?
Last time i tried buying citric acid from Morrisons, I was directed to the pharmacy counter, where we paid £1 for a tiny box of it (after loads of questions about what I was planning to do with it, etc). My sister actually needed it for something related to my nieces bottles/sterilizer!
Is that the glen carin whisky glass? You've used it before and I only just recognized it.
I may need to make a Kg or two of BigClive's Health Salts to cure my over indulgences.
Well done clive.... did all that without burping lol
Ooo, you where lucky with that lid too
I remember back in the 1980's we made sherbert in school it was wicked we added food dye and everyone face and mouth was strange colours for ages..
My father used to use Alka-seltzer I tried to try it once and it came out faster then it went in lol.
You should try adding some lemon-lime beer salt!
Diaper rash cream works great for heat rashes, but is very expensive, about $7 for a 115 gram tube. It uses cod liver oil which I find completely unnecessary and quite unpleasant smelling, combined with that "baby powder" scent they add and it's worth looking for alternatives.
It's mostly petrolatum (vaseline) and zinc oxide (about 40% zinc oxide), some other things like bees wax that you can pretty much overlook. I bought zinc oxide powder, 450 grams for $10, then got 2 370 gram generic petrolatum at the big box store for $4 total. Basically I just spent what I would have to get 230 grams of store bought cream and I've now made 1,190 grams, so that's effectively 5 times cheaper (and doesn't smell like cod liver oil). Big win! Also works great as sun screen, albeit a bit oily.
I suppose the downside is now I have a kg tub of cream sitting in the house which seems a bit odd.
+Jesse Crandle Here in the UK a common version is zinc and castor oil cream. It can apparently be used as thermal transfer paste in an emergency.
i clean my teeth with it,,its also very good for relief from rheumatism
Thanks Clive. We can't get Andrews here in Malta now I will be able to make our own.
By the way you can buy citric acid in the supermarket baking department and Epsom salts in a chemist
Check out my video about "emo salts" (eno salts). If making this I recommend keeping the ingredients separate and using half a teaspoon of each when making a drink up.
After seeing this episode of *_Cooking with Clive_* I doubt the Food Network is going to pick this up as a regular series. :)
why didnt you use your magic bullet for mixing and making it finer?
Are you making a Scat film on the quiet?
Great. Just made some. Don't suppose you have a recipe for Shippam's anchovy spread? Life's not been quite the same since they stopped making it!
I don't think I've ever tasted anchovy spread.
The usa equivalent would be alkaseltzer the main difference is alka seltzer has aspirin instead of sugar (also a hangover remedy )
"constip....ation oh dear" lmao
Really missed an occasional glass of Andrews Liver Salts, so I made up a batch and I am really pleased with the result, so a big thanks to bigclive for posting.👍👍
Also see my Emo salts video for a more refreshing version made with just two powders on demand.
1:49: In the States, we'd call it sodium bicarbonate, or more commonly, baking soda.
Is that mixing container one of these ice-cream buckets?
Yum..(Just had to say that).
Weeellll I never! Ive already got bicarb.
This is gonna come in handy for my IBS attack.
Also see my Emo Salts video for a more refreshing variant.
is the BB date on the Andrews salts March 2010?
I might make my own product to sell in poudland
Clever! If you citric acid isn't available, I wonder if you could replace it with lemon juice. Of course it would be wet concentrate and not a dry mix but it would add a lemony flavor as well. (Edit: OK, wait.. that won't work...)
You can't store it that way. The citric acid and baking soda react if there is any water around.
+Robert Szasz Funny, I was coming back to edit my comment this morning. Yeah, you would have to keep it away from the lemon juice until you needed. Now, this idea does not sound as convenient as it did in the middle of the night.
there is a dehydrated lemon powder available, it might work with that.
edit: truelemon is the trade name
icing sugar has potato starch in ti too
This product is meant for indigestion ...I usually only use this after eating Christmas dinner followed by stodgy Christmas pudding ....... I'm not sure why it was ever called liversalts - I doubt it would be any use to an alcoholic .
Electrolytes, and stomach quelling.
Is this what we call Alka Seltzer in the USA, haha. We had these in Germany, in a tablet form, you could put it in water and it would fizz and disappear shortly. Came with Calcium and Magnesium in the same tablet. Now days they say those don't really do anything for you.
Hey, coming back to you on this.
Did try it and it works.
But I prefer a bit more fizz!
How do I do that please?
Try chilling the water in the fridge. The version that uses 50/50 citric acid and bicarbonate of soda with no sugar might work too.
icing sugar generally contains corn starch, to prevent the finely powdered sucrose particles from clumping together. sucrose is highly hygroscopic and over time, it absorbs water from the air and forms clumps. however, corn starch is difficult to solubilize in water: when adding icing sugar directly to water, the corn starch will take much longer to dissolve - especially at R.T. - and it's likely to create an unpleasant texture. if you want to avoid the problems related to the presence of corn starch, you can simply grind table sugar with a blender - it'll bring the particle size distribution enough to make the sugar dissolve instantly. you can even keep it for long-ish periods of time if you mix all the dry ingredients together: citric acid, sodium bicarbonate and ground table sugar. the presence of NaHCO3 will prevent the small particle size sugar from clumping, without the need for corn starch!
In the UK, icing sugar that I've used contains something called Tricalcium Phosphate, not cornstarch. Anecdotally, it appeared extremely soluble.
Not in the UK it doesn’t..
Do bath salts next!
that's what is in alkaseltser tablets. it's just pressed together and no sugar
Bought some the other day, as I wasn't feeling so good..gut wise.
I remember my mum giving it to us when we were children back in the 60s and 70s.
It used to come in a round tin, I like the tin version better than this oval plastic one.
Sure the drink fizzed like fury back then, and went up your nose, but the new one doesn't.
Maybe I'm using too much water.
I used this for the very first time today and it didn’t fizz in the slightest. I put one teaspoon full in half a glass of water. Next time I’ll reduce the water.
Clive, any after taste???
I know next to nothing about these food safe chemicals, but how difficult would it be to create a dioralyte substitute? The few times I have used dioralyte it has worked fabulously - I particularly recommend it if you ever have heat stroke or sun stroke.
+Cal “Calomile” Hallows The rehydrating solutions are normally based on glucose and common salts (including one used as table salt.) If you look online you'll see recipes for energy and rehydration drinks that are little more than a fruit flavour drink with some salt added.
As per usual my naivety gets the better of me - I figured there was some form of magical incantation cast on the blessed powder as it left the factory by Gandalf-esque wizards. Turns out I could have just put table salt in ribena.
+Cal “Calomile” Hallows Which would also taste great. You did just inspire me to make a batch of Dr Clive's miracle hydration salts. 20g citric acid, 20g bicarbonate of soda, 5g of table salt and 40 grams of icing sugar. Works well.
Sounds fizzy, delicious and hydrating. All you need is an apothecary-esque container and a hipster victorian letter press label and you're in business!
It sounds like we had similar childhoods despite the fact that at 61 I’m somewhat older than you. The worst thing about my parents divorce (except being Catholic in the 60s) was the fact Dad took the Andrews with him. Sherbet was eaten with a liquorice sticks, so double laxative.
The only problem is that magnesium sulphate is a laxative.
+TazeTSchnitzel If you want to use it as a laxative, the instructions say use 2 teaspoons of Andrews as apposed to one teaspoon for an upset stomach (indigestion etc).
+Chris Grant This is the trouble: Clive had one teaspoonful of Andrews salts, then one teaspoonful of his own home-made equivalent.
In recent months own brand salts seem to have disappeared. Unavailable at Wilko and Sainsbury...why????? Only Andrews remains available..at a price!!!!
add aspirin powders (or ground tablets) and you have sweetened alka-seltzer