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 learned that it can help relieve bug bites!
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You can use it to get the green out of blonde hair from swimming pools!
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Baking soda mixed with shampoo has been great at getting the chlorine out of my kids hair!!
That it can be used to soak up baby pee from the mattress
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I never thought about using it to strip wall paper! Everyone knows taking down wall paper is no fun and If it gets the job done faster its worth a try!
This is not a new use, but it is my favorite way to use baking soda. If your drain is slow-moving or clogged, pour baking soda down the drain. Pour hot vinegar down it next. Than follow it up with boiling water. Repeat if necessary. It works!
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I didn’t realize that you could use Baking Soda to exfoliate your face and skin. I will be trying this.
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I love baking soda and use for so many things. My top faves are cleaning the shower (works great on soap scum), cleaning my kitchen sink to a sparkling shine, and detox baths (1 cup baking soda and 1 cup epsom salt helps to draw out toxins in the better and helps you to get better faster when sick). We love our detox baths in this house.
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I use it in the wash, mixed with lavender oil to sprinkle on mattresses (carpets too!) before vacuuming, and to scrub citrus fruits with before using the peels to make my citrus vingegar!
Its a staple in our house 🙂
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I sprinkle Baking Soda all over my sink and a bunch down my garbage disposal (it’s cheap so I am liberal with it!) I scrub the sink really good. Then I pour some vinegar down the disposal and let it sit a minute. Then I send a couple ice cubes down and run to sharpen the disposal. Then I put an older piece of citrus fruit (or pick one here in FL). I run the disposal again and rinse everything. It ends up so clean and shiny and smells like whatever fruit I used!
I sprinkle it in my to go coffee mug. I live in FL so if I forget my coffee in the car just 1 day it smells really bad. So I sprinkle in the mug and let it sit a bit. Then I scrub it out and wash and that usually does the trick!!
This would work great in sippy cups too that were in the car too long.
Baking soda kills crab grass! It really does, we tried it!
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We recently had some FUN with baking soda. My 9 year old son saw the idea on TV and we just had to try it – right then (seriously, he would not stop begging until we did it). So we got a tupperware dish (a tallish one) with matching lid. We then poked a whole in the middle of the lid – about a inch. Now fill up the tupperware dish halfway with vinegar and then stir in a bunch of liquid dish soap. Tip – do this trick outside! Then when you are in an area that can get nice and messy dump in some baking soda and super quickly put the lid on the tupperware. Insta Volcano! It will shoot through the whole you made in the lid. The kids had so much fun with this!
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Tupperware… have you ever had it get sticky? Well, make a solution of warm water and baking soda. Soak your tupperware in it and it removes the sticky stuff!
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I like to use baking soda for cleaning drains. I didn’t know that it could be used for bug bites, too!
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I USE BAKING SODA FOR SO MANY THINGS! AS A FACE SCRUB, BRUSHING MY TEETH, SCRUB THE SINK WITH IT, USE IT IN THE FRIDGE, I HAVE TO TRY IT ON THE CRAB GRASS~ I BAKE WITH IT- CORNBREAD AND OTHER SAVORY BREADS. MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS BRUSHED HER TEETH WITH IT- SHE KNEW BEST!
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My grandma always swore by baking soda for brushing teeth. I love Arm and Hammer’s toothpaste, so I guess she wasn’t that far off!!
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