10 Awesome Uses For Baking Soda

 

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#2 – Mouthwash: Have you checked out the price of oral care products lately (The kids’ college or some Agent Cool Blue? Choices, choices…). For those of us who decide that our kids getting fine careers in politics, law, or medicine is more important, your child no longer has to deal with minor tooth decay thanks to the advent of baking soda. If you mix a single tablespoon with half of a tall glass of water, you have some pretty effective mouthwash.

#3 – Skin Exfoliator: For those of us who strive for clean, smooth, baby-like skin, this trick will serve you all quite well. You can make a nice exfoliating paste for your skin by mixing 3 parts baking soda with 1 part water. When applying it, you should gently massage it on your skin, getting as much coverage as you want. When you’ve gotten it all massaged on, rinse it all off with some warm water.

#4 – Tougher Laundry Detergent: Maybe you’ve heard about using vinegar to brighten colors in your laundry before, but what can baking soda do? 1/2 a cup of the stuff mixed in with your detergent makes your detergent work much more effectively, making clothes cleaner and colors brighter. Is anyone wondering what would happen if we mixed the vinegar trick with the baking soda trick? Your clothes probably wouldn’t live through it, so I wouldn’t try it.

#5 – Homemade Clay: If you have an artist in the family (or maybe you are the artist), the following project could be a fun thing to do. If you mix some baking soda in with 1 1/4 cups of water and a cup of cornstarch, the result is something quite similar to store bought modeling clay. Afterwards you should go and find an air-tight tin to maximize its shelf life.

#6 – Deodorant: Stick or spray? You don’t have to pick either with baking soda; its magnificent quality of being able to make anything smell nice makes it an extremely viable option when choosing deodorant in the morning. No fancy steps at all to doing this: just firmly pat the baking soda under your pits and go about your day.

#7 – Toilet Cleaner: None of us want to do it. Not a single person in the house wants to deal with THAT one dreaded job. No one wants to deal with the dirty job of cleaning the toilet. Then you remember you have baking soda on your side. Dump roughly a single cup into the toilet bowl and let it sit for about an hour (I don’t know, maybe watch half a movie on HBO). After that hour has passed, go back and flush the toilet. You’ll now have a clean and odorless toilet.

#8 – Deodorize Your Home: Baking soda can deodorize just about anything. You can put an open box in the back of a fridge to keep odors bearable; you can sprinkle some across the bottom of your trash can before you put a new bag in to keep the smells at bay; and you can leave a snowstorm of the stuff on the carpet before you go to work and vacuum it all up when you get home.

#9 – Poor Man’s Foot Bath: For most families, it’s too expensive to buy a personal sauna for the entire family to relax in. So, if you still want their feet to experience the soothing sauna experience, our only friend is baking soda. For a nice foot bath, simply fill a tub with warm water and then add and stir in at least 3 tablespoons of our fine friend, Baking Soda.

#10 – Replacement for De-Icing Salts: We’ve all had that moment; we walk in from the cold winter air, dust our jackets off, and start the boring, monotonous task of getting all the salt off of our shoes. Would you believe that Baking Soda can also help you here? You can substitute a fine dusting of Baking Soda for all those salts you’re tossing onto your driveway and patio. Unlike all the other options available, Baking Soda provides you with good traction and melts the ice just as well as salt. Unlike salt, it won’t cause damage to your shoes or your floors.

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Comments

  1. Christina Strapp says

    Great post, thank you for this. Will have to remember some of these.

  2. I never knew you could just let it sit in the toilet bowl and do it’s thing, and then just flush! I always thought you had to scrub it around with a brush. Gonna try this for sure – let the baking soda do the work FOR me. Thanks for this!!!!

  3. WOW, I’ve heard of some of these, but not all of them! Thanks for the great tips!

  4. laurie nykaza says

    Great idea and they are Eco friendly too, which is what I like being green as much as I can. I found it took all the grease out of my fryer with little work!

  5. sandy weinstein says

    great ideas, i also use this w/ white vinegar to clean the drains

  6. Billie Jo Hayes says

    Cool tips! Will have to try these soon 🙂

  7. Dorothy Teel says

    Thank you so much for sharing these uses for baking soda, these are wonderful and I frequently use my old refrigerator box of baking soda for cleaning and I love to put some in my drains with some white vinegar and clean drains, works well (Knock wood) I also like using fresh baking soda to wash face with, works great, thanks for the other ideas.

  8. Georgia Beckman says

    I think I go through more banking soda than any other human being on the planet. HOWEVER, I did not know about using it for mouth wash, so thank you! Also, I only wash my towels with baking soda & vinegar now. I started this about 4 months ago & I love the difference in them. I wash them in hot water & put in a half cup of baking soda with a half cup of vinegar.

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