Baking soda doesn't just keep your fridge smelling fresh. It has oodles of uses around your house. You might know some of them already, but I bet you don't know all of them. Check out my top 10 favorite uses for baking soda below.
- Safety first! Keep a box of baking soda by the stove. If you have a grease or electrical fire, toss handfuls of baking soda on it to extinguish.
- Do you have marble-topped tables or furniture? Then clean it with baking soda. Mix three tablespoons in a quart of warm water, wipe it on the marble, let stand, and then rinse.
- To get your laundry sparkling clean, add 1/2 cup baking soda to your washing machine load.
- Get your garbage cans smelling fresh by washing them with baking soda.
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- Do you have Formica counter tops in your kitchen? Wipe them down with baking soda sprinkled on a damp sponge.
- To get odors and stains out of your coffee maker, run it through its cycle with a baking soda solution. Rinse.
- Encourage free-flowing kitchen and bathroom drains by running four tablespoons of baking soda through them once a week. Just drop in the baking soda, then follow it with hot water.
- Are you a pup person? Get that doggy smell out of your carpets or rugs with baking soda. Sprinkle baking soda on the carpet, let it sit for half an hour or more, and then vacuum it up.
- You can also get your whole house smelling fresh by adding baking soda to your vacuum cleaner bag.
- Scrub down all of your bathroom fixtures with baking soda on a damp sponge. It acts as a mild abrasive, and gets fixtures shiny.
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Neat! I never knew baking soad had so many uses
1I use it for everything. I always sprinkle on my carpet before I vacuum. A good thing to do to clean your drains is to mix baking soda with vinegar.
2I do the vinegar baking soda mixture for much of my cleaning!
3you can also use it as a hair wash. i have stopped using chemical riddled shampoo and conditioner and use a baking soda wash and a vinegar rinse. its great. check it out here: http://community.livejournal.com/no_poo
4awesome
5I can toss it in with any kind of laundry? colors, whites, delicates?
6Yes, ms660bk. It will not harm your clothes.
7What kind of vinegar do you mix to use it on your drains?
8Salernol928, I use white.
9i use if for my homemade cleaning solution (baking soda, white vinegar, and castille soap)
10it works wonders
I knew about some of these ideas but not all of them. Thanks for the other tips CasaSugar
11My mom swears baking soda is amazing, but I never knew all of the things it could do!
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