Borax can also be used in your bath soak. I use it with my Epsom Salt soak. You will absorb transdermally and it does not taste bad unless you drink your bath water. I use 2 or more cups in my bath soak two to three times per week
with the Epsom Salts .
I use a pinch of it in every qt. of water I drink along with the pinch of Sea Salt . This is for me a daily regime. I could not stand the taste of 1/8 t. in my water. Yuck. But the pinch is more tolerable and the bath, no taste at all!
Nipped that painful annoying hip right into shape in a couple of weeks and softened my hair right up with out the use of conditioner.