Simple Solutions Around the Home with Baking Soda
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Most everyone has that yellow box of baking soda in their pantry for baking and some may even toss one in the fridge to keep nasty odors at bay. But did you know that baking soda has a plethora of other uses? This is some amazing stuff!!
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Why use Baking Soda?
Baking soda is a non-toxic, naturally occurring, substance that is made from sodium bicarbonate. Because it’s a naturally found substance, it will not harm you, your family or the environment. Not only is baking soda good for cooking and cleaning but it is also one of the most inexpensive substances that you can buy to use in your home!
Common Uses for Baking Soda:
- Safe way to scour and clean entire kitchen
- Use in laundry – cleaner, fresher clothes
- Use to Brush teeth and wash hair
- Sooth stings, bug bites and sun burns
- Used in baking and cooking
- Freshen your fridge
- Freshen carpets
UnCommon Uses for Baking Soda:
- Use to make deodorant
- Balance the PH in your swimming pool
- Clean BBQ grill
- Use to strip wallpaper
- Removes Rust
- Use to extinguish fires
- Clean stains from plastic
- Use to clean drains
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A few of my personal favorite ways to use Baking Soda:
Clean combs and brushes
Clean combs and brushesKeep your combs and brushes free of natural oil build-up and hair product residue by soaking combs and brushes in a solution of 1 teaspoon of ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda in a small basin of warm water. Rinse and allow to dry.
Bring Sour Sponges back to life
Bring Sour Sponges back to lifeSoak stale-smelling sponges in a strong ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda solution to get rid of the mess and bring in the fresh (4 tablespoons of ARM & HAMMER® Baking Soda dissolved in 1 quart of warm water).
What are your favorite uses of baking soda?
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I didn’t know that soaking smelly sponges in baking soda and water would sweeten and clean them. Great idea, thanks.
I sprinkle baking soda on my black glass cooktop and add a small amount of dish detergentand then wipe down to clean up after cooking. It leaves it clean and polished!
I use baking soda to clean out the dishwasher – add it to the bottom, a little vinegar, and run it empty!
I like to use baking soda to clean some grease stains on my husband’s shirt.
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For years we have used baking soda and vinegar to keep the garbage disposal fresh smelling. Whenever I empty the box out of the fridge, I repurpose it by dumping it down the disposal along with a cup of white vinegar. In the summer when we eat a lot of cucumbers in vinegar, we repurpose the left-over vinegar by dumping it down the sink with baking soda as well. I haven’t used regular toothpaste in over 20 years and have not had any cavities since…all I do is brush with baking soda and I don’t need to use any teeth whiteners either. Love A&R products.
I think Tom might have said it all. I had gum surgery last week and I was told that post operative care was rinsing 1/4 tsp. baking soda with 1/4 tsp. of salt twice a day. now I am to do it reducing the salt only. when I see all the possibilities I wonder about what might be happening in my mouth – is this corrosive?
I recently learned that I could put it in the laundry to whiten my whites and to freshen my washing machine.
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Just used the sponge trick and it worked like a charm!!
I use it as an exfoliating body scrub when I take a bath
I’ve always used a baking soda paste for bug bites. Works great!
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I have used baking soda in my cars for over 20 years to keep them smelling clean and fresh inside. I place a disposable bowl full of baking soda under the driver’s and front passenger’s seats. Or, later when they began to have the boxes with the little “screen” that you expose, I place those under the seats of my cars. My cars always smell fresh and not “icky”.
I learned that you can use Baking Soda as Silver Polish
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This is a not a new use; i clean and deodorize my microwave oven.
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You can deodorize your vacuum canister with baking soda. Add a small amount to the canister to eliminate odors while vacuuming!
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i use baking soda for all kinds of things i put it in my fridge i put it in the wash with my clothes i use it for cleaning the kitchen and i use it for brushing teeth sometimes
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I use it instead of Comet to clean my tub and sinks also as a deodorizer in the cat box
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I always did use Baking Soda for bug bites, brushing teeth, cleaning kitchen and carpets, in the fridge, and even in the bath to sooth chicken pocks =)
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I don’t have a new use for it but my favorite way to use it is to clean stains on my counter tops. I make a paste with baking soda & lemon juice, scrub the stain, let it sit a minute or two then rinse. Works every time.
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OH NO!!!! I forgot the mandatory entry: I learned on the Dr’s to put baking soda in shoes to stop stinky feet