oumebiuNature's Touch Jewelry Making Tool, Grey

Absolutely LOVE this product! It is perfect if you have children amd do not want very harmful chemicals around your babies. Of courss it should still NEVER be where any kiddo can reach it... But better than using other more harmful chemicals!

Good eco friendly pickle for copper

This stuff work slower than standard pickle. Non toxic. I will keep using until I find a reason not to.

Works as stated without the dangers of acid.

I had been using Sparex sulfate pickle for years, with very adequate results. Recently, though, a change in living situation forced me to rethink a lot of things, some of which led me to try a citrate pickle - not this one, but citric acid is citric acid. I keep a small heated pickle pot on my bench, unheated the very large majority of the time. The change in situation hasn't given me the time I want where having it hot would matter at all often.So, as a cleaning solution, my limited time with it is quite passable. I don't know that it takes flux residue off any faster or slower; I don't know that it removes oxides any better or worse. Disposing of it with relative safety is appealing. But, when spent pickle has a lot of copper dissolved in it, the copper might be a worse problem than whichever acid you choose. I haven't compared prices, but a half-kilo of either will last me a decade - at a few years' distance, the difference in cost gets mighty hard to see.One difference drew itself to my attention, though. Sulfate isn't very nutritious for any of Earth's one-celled citizens that I encounter around the house. Citrate is. Two different fungi showed this to me by setting up household in my long-unused pickle pot, forming two little mats of mold on the surface, each a tad bigger than a quarter. Each mat held together well enough that I could fish it out of the pickle easily enough - but having to de-foul the pickle pot was a very new experience for me. And not one that sparked joy.It's not enough of a problem for me to switch back to sulfates - not yet, at least. And maybe a splash of rubbing alcohol will dissuade the wee beasties, or waiting until enough copper dissolves into the pickle, or just getting it up to working temperature more often than I've had time for. In the long run, it might not be an issue.But biological fouling with citrate is in fact an issue.-- wiredweirdUpdate: I've used this pickle enough for it to be a pleasant, coppery green. Even though I've been trying some cold-worked techniques and haven't heated it in a while, the biological issues are gone and I'm still happy with its performance. Upgrade to four stars.

Highly disappointed in the arrival of this product. First of all the image for the product shows it in a plastic screw top container, yet in shipped in a zip lock bag. The bag had a giant slit in the center of it from which half of the product pour into the box. Terrible false advertising if you ask me.

Not much else to say. Product works as described and is much less caustic than other pickling compound. No discernible scent.

Good stuff and I am happy with the purchase will buy again