25 Uses for Baking Soda

1. Use it as an antacid.

2. Use it as underarm deodorant by applying it with a powder puff.

3. Mix half a teaspoon with peroxide paste and use it as toothpaste.

4. Use it as a face and body scrub.

5. Add a cup to bathwater to soften your skin.

6. Relieve skin itch from insect bites and pain from sunburn.

7. Remove strong odors from your hands by rubbing them with baking soda and water.

8. Put two tablespoons in your baby’s bathwater to help relieve diaper rash.

9. Apply it on rashes, insect bites, and poison ivy irritations.

10. Relieve canker sore pain by using it as mouthwash.

11. Use it to relieve windburns.

12. Apply it on jellyfish sting to draw out the venom.

13. Unblock stuffy nose by adding a teaspoon of baking soda to your vaporizer.

14. Keep cut flowers fresh longer by adding a teaspoon to the water in the vase.

15. Put an open container of baking soda in the fridge to absorb the odors.

16. Sprinkle it on your slippers, boots, shoes, and socks to eliminate foul odor.

17. Turn baking soda into modeling clay by combining it with one and 1/4 cups of water and one cup of cornstarch.

18. After feeding your baby, wipe his shirt with a moist cloth sprinkled with baking soda to remove the odor.

19. Wipe your windshield with it to repel rain.

20. Put it under sinks and along basement windows to repel cockroaches and ants.

21. Scatter baking soda around flowerbeds to prevent rabbits from eating your veggies.

22. Sweeten your tomatoes by sprinkling baking soda on the soil around your tomato plants.

23. Sprinkle it onto your cat’s litter box to absorb the bad odor.

24. Sprinkle it on your pet’s comb or brush to deodorize their fur and skin.

25. Remove scratches and crayon marks from vinyl floors and walls.