Am I the only one who uses baking soda for everything?
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I found a recipe for shampoo (although watery) that helped me with the breakouts I was having on my scalp. Boil 8 ounces of water and add 1 tablespoon of baking soda (slowly & carefully 'cause it tends to bubble over). Allow it to cool and wash your hair with it. Wash & rinse twice. This recipe makes enough for one time. It leaves hair clean and oil free and much less tangled and less dried out than shampoo. It's kind of a hassle to have to remember to make it 20 minutes or so before washing, but to me it's worth it not to have the breakouts. I recommend it to anyone who has sensitive skin.
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Wow. No way! That is really awesome. I need to try that out myself & I think you really are [[Well, you're at least on of few]] the only one that uses baking soda.
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Thanks for the tip
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ooh, i'm gonna have to try out quite a few of these things. i think i've used it on my teeth once, but i don't know for sure.
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I use baking soda for bathing, exfoliating, deodorant, toothpaste(w/peroxide) and household cleaning. Try searching "baking soda," many have spoken of the many ways they use it!
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Baking soda is perfect.. I use it for a ton of things..
I got the lowdown on using baking soda as a deodorant! Here's how:
Mix a cup of baking soda and 2 T. of cornstarch and put it in a plastic container with a short-handled blush brush. Then after your shower you just brush on your deodorant. Since you're still a little moist, it doesn't have a problem sticking.
And then another recipe:
1/4 cup baking soda (for odor)
1/4 cup baby powder (for pleasant scent)
1/16 cup corn starch ( for dryness)
Mix and put in old baby powder container to just sprinkle on (can pop the top of the container off and on easily)
Toothpaste - as a mildly abrasive tooth cleaner and mouthwash in one. ('Dentist approved')
Potscrubber - make it into a paste and scrub stainless steel, iron or copper pots with it.
Clean porcelain sinks and tubs.
The old one - put an opened box in the refrigerator to absorb odors.
Use instead of powder in your shoes to absorb moisture and odors
Neutralize battery acid quickly in case of spills.
Use gently as an exfoliating facial scrub.
Soothe bee stings, and other insect bites by spreading a paste of baking soda and vinegar on it.
Use in bath water to relieve irritated skin. (Good for baby, too)
Anti-acid, mix 1/2 teaspoon in about 4 ounces of water, and drink all at one time. It will cause you to 'burp', as it neutralizes stomach acid the same way it does other acids.
Use in diaper pails to keep them fresh.
Also use in garbage cans and wherever odor is a problem.
Test garden soil for acidity by mixing one cup soil with two cups water, then stirring in 1/4 cup of baking soda. If you have a volcano erupting in your container, your soil is very acid. If you just have a little fizz around the edges, you have a minimally acidic soil.
Carpet deodorizer - sprinkle on carpet, and leave overnight, then vacuum in the morning. Offending odors will be gone.
Put a generous amount of baking soda in a dish. After using steel wool, wring out, and store it in the dish of baking soda. Cuts down on rust, and is ready to scour away!
If you have allergies to laundry products, try using baking soda to wash your clothing and especially bedding.
This reader uses baking soda to scrub crayon off of her white no wax floor. It works wonderfully, and best of all is nontoxic so the 2 year old scribbler can help clean up his artistic endeavors. No other cleaning product gets the crayon off with such ease! Just wet a sponge and sprinkle baking soda on the area or directly to the sponge and rub the crayon right off! Wipe up the excess baking soda and you are done!
Dump onto acid spills/stains such as vomit (after you've picked up any solid matter). The baking soda will wick the liquid up out of the carpet as well as neutralize the acid. Pick up the wet clumps before vacuuming, though, or it gets gross in the beater bar of your machine.
Put sunburned kids (or yourself) in a cool (not cold) baking soda bath for half an hour. This also works well for chicken pox and mosquito bites.
Use it with warm water to wash the inside of the refrigerator.
Clean stainless steel sinks - a paste made of dishwashing liquid and a generous amount of baking soda takes brown stains out!
Add it to your tooth paste so it won't taste too bad. Put the toothpaste on then simply sprinkle on top.
pouring a little baking soda into my cat's litter box keeps the odors out longer. Also my cat had a little accident on the carpet. Getting rid of the urine smell was awful. mix in Lemon Essential Oil with the Baking Soda.
urine on the cement floor in basement. This can get quite annoying and smelly. To further clean up the area apply a splash of vinegar. The foaming action and a little scrubbing cleaned it up quite well!
I got the lowdown on using baking soda as a deodorant! Here's how:
Mix a cup of baking soda and 2 T. of cornstarch and put it in a plastic container with a short-handled blush brush. Then after your shower you just brush on your deodorant. Since you're still a little moist, it doesn't have a problem sticking.
And then another recipe:
1/4 cup baking soda (for odor)
1/4 cup baby powder (for pleasant scent)
1/16 cup corn starch ( for dryness)
Mix and put in old baby powder container to just sprinkle on (can pop the top of the container off and on easily)
Toothpaste - as a mildly abrasive tooth cleaner and mouthwash in one. ('Dentist approved')
Potscrubber - make it into a paste and scrub stainless steel, iron or copper pots with it.
Clean porcelain sinks and tubs.
The old one - put an opened box in the refrigerator to absorb odors.
Use instead of powder in your shoes to absorb moisture and odors
Neutralize battery acid quickly in case of spills.
Use gently as an exfoliating facial scrub.
Soothe bee stings, and other insect bites by spreading a paste of baking soda and vinegar on it.
Use in bath water to relieve irritated skin. (Good for baby, too)
Anti-acid, mix 1/2 teaspoon in about 4 ounces of water, and drink all at one time. It will cause you to 'burp', as it neutralizes stomach acid the same way it does other acids.
Use in diaper pails to keep them fresh.
Also use in garbage cans and wherever odor is a problem.
Test garden soil for acidity by mixing one cup soil with two cups water, then stirring in 1/4 cup of baking soda. If you have a volcano erupting in your container, your soil is very acid. If you just have a little fizz around the edges, you have a minimally acidic soil.
Carpet deodorizer - sprinkle on carpet, and leave overnight, then vacuum in the morning. Offending odors will be gone.
Put a generous amount of baking soda in a dish. After using steel wool, wring out, and store it in the dish of baking soda. Cuts down on rust, and is ready to scour away!
If you have allergies to laundry products, try using baking soda to wash your clothing and especially bedding.
This reader uses baking soda to scrub crayon off of her white no wax floor. It works wonderfully, and best of all is nontoxic so the 2 year old scribbler can help clean up his artistic endeavors. No other cleaning product gets the crayon off with such ease! Just wet a sponge and sprinkle baking soda on the area or directly to the sponge and rub the crayon right off! Wipe up the excess baking soda and you are done!
Dump onto acid spills/stains such as vomit (after you've picked up any solid matter). The baking soda will wick the liquid up out of the carpet as well as neutralize the acid. Pick up the wet clumps before vacuuming, though, or it gets gross in the beater bar of your machine.
Put sunburned kids (or yourself) in a cool (not cold) baking soda bath for half an hour. This also works well for chicken pox and mosquito bites.
Use it with warm water to wash the inside of the refrigerator.
Clean stainless steel sinks - a paste made of dishwashing liquid and a generous amount of baking soda takes brown stains out!
Add it to your tooth paste so it won't taste too bad. Put the toothpaste on then simply sprinkle on top.
pouring a little baking soda into my cat's litter box keeps the odors out longer. Also my cat had a little accident on the carpet. Getting rid of the urine smell was awful. mix in Lemon Essential Oil with the Baking Soda.
urine on the cement floor in basement. This can get quite annoying and smelly. To further clean up the area apply a splash of vinegar. The foaming action and a little scrubbing cleaned it up quite well!
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I have to follow up my original post/replay. I'm not sure this works well if you have hard water. Our water softener malfunctioned and while it wasn't working right the baking soda wash left my hair feeling sticky. After the water softener was fixed the baking soda cleanser worked fine again.
