In the kitchen, bathroom and garden
Baking soda or baking soda is regularly used as a leavening agent in baking recipes, but you can do a lot more with it. Some even call it a miracle cure. Here are fourteen different ways you can use baking soda.
1. As a deodorant
Baking soda works well against bad odors, including perspiration. You can easily apply the baking soda under the arms with a powder brush or sponge, but there are also various recipes for a homemade, spreadable deodorant with coconut oil and essential oil on the internet.
2. Cleaning shower curtain
Baking soda is good to use not only in the kitchen, but also in the bathroom. If your shower curtain is moldy, you can wash it with baking soda. Then put the shower curtain with two bath towels in the washing machine on the program for a gentle wash. Use half a cup of baking soda as laundry detergent and half a cup of vinegar as fabric softener.
3. As a fabric softener
Where you use vinegar as a fabric softener for the shower curtain, you can very well use baking soda for regular laundry. This makes your white laundry even whiter. Mix half a cup of baking soda with liquid detergent for best results.
4. Cleaning the oven
If your oven could use a cleaning, you can easily clean it with baking soda. Sprinkle some of the powder over the bottom of the oven, spray some water on it with a plant sprayer and let it soak overnight. The next day you can easily scrub it clean with a sponge.
5. Fresh Litter Box
Baking soda also works very well against the bad odors of the litter box. Sprinkle some baking soda over the bottom of the litter box.
6. Cook with beans or legumes
By boiling a teaspoon of baking soda with your beans or legumes, you make them more digestible. With chickpeas, the membrane comes off the chickpea better this way. You can also add it while soaking. That also saves half the cooking time.
7. Fresh Flowers
To keep fresh cut flowers fresh for longer, you can add some baking soda to the water in the vase. One teaspoon of baking soda is enough for one bunch of flowers.
8. Insect Bites
Oops, stung by an insect? Then mix a little bit of water with some baking soda until a paste is formed. You can apply this to irritated skin. You can easily remove the stinger from a bee sting. It could also reduce the pain of the sting somewhat.
9. Against Blood Stains
Dried blood can easily be removed with some baking soda. Soak the fabric for a few hours in cold water with a generous teaspoon of the powder. It is very important here not to use hot water. After soaking, you can wash it. The bloodstain should be almost gone by then.
10. As a mouthwash
Yes, baking soda works for fresh breath too. Mix a glass of water with a little baking soda and then gargle with it for half a minute to a whole minute.
11. For a sore throat
We are slowly beginning to understand why this product is labeled as a miracle cure. Baking soda also works well for a sore throat. For this, you can gargle with the baking soda, just like you would with the mouthwash.
12. As a face scrub
For a facial scrub, mix three parts baking soda with one part water. Massage this on your face and then clean it with water.
13. Like salt on the road
Instead of salt, you can also easily sprinkle baking soda over the slippery road in winter.
14. Against Weeds
If you are bothered by weeds between the tiles, you can sprinkle baking soda over it. This should reduce the weeds a lot, or even disappear.
Curious about the difference between baking soda and baking powder, where you buy baking soda and how long you can store baking soda? You can read that here.
