On the 20 Mule Team Borax website it lists the following uses for their product:
Glass — including fiberglass insulation, Pyrex, optical lenses, laboratory glassware and art glass.
Porcelain enamel — that covers stoves, refrigerators, freezers, bath fixtures and cookware.
Ceramics — as an important component of the glaze on pottery, chinaware and tiles.
Detergents and soaps — to enhance whitening, brightening or bleaching of laundry products and as an ingredient in many hand soap formulas.
Aircraft and automobiles — to keep engines running clean, in antifreeze, brake fluid, and to build lightweight, high-strength structural sections in aircraft.
Cosmetics and medicines — for face creams, lotions, dusting powders, ointments, hair products, and eye bath solutions.
Building materials — to flameproof and protect lumber, gypsum board, particle board and insulation materials and to protect them from termites, rot and fungi.
Flame retardants — to control the burning rate of wood, paper, and plastic products and to flameproof mattresses.
Electronics — as a treatment to the silicon that runs diodes, semi-conductors, transistors and microcircuitry.
Agriculture — as a soil micro-nutrient to aid in plant growth and yield.
But they should also add another one
FLEA ELIMINATOR which is what I spent my Friday the 13th doing.