Baking Soda: Over 500 Fabulous, Fun, and Frugal Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of

Keep on hand for working ideas around the house

I learned a lot of new ways to clean and revitalize my home. I admit I'm not the best housekeeper but some of these solutions were so easy I wish I had this book in my 20's!

If you don't have this incredibly helpful book--maybe two or three around the house and workshop--someone should thump you upside the head. Baking soda is natural, inexpensive, and so easy to use. "Baking Soda: Over 500 Fabulous, Fun, and Frugal Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of" will tell you how.You know about baking soda in the refrigerator to absorb odors and down the drain with vinegar followed by a hot water rinse to keep drains flowing freely. How about sprinkling some in your suitcases when you next store them to eliminate that musty odor that grows in the dark of your absence. Or sprinkle it on your closet floor the day before you vacuum.Soak dirty mops and rags in a solution of baking soda and water after you finish mopping and make that final rinse. Rinse and let dry.Make the dirtiest windows sparkle by washing them with a wet sponge sprinkled with baking soda. Rinse with a clean sponge and dry.Leave 1 cup ammonia in a cold, closed oven overnight. In the morning remove the ammonia, sprinkle the oven with baking soda and wipe down with damp paper towels. Most of the residue will come off.Give chocolate cake a darker texture by adding 1 teaspoon baking soda with the other dry ingredients.Remove tape residue from windows and woodwork by using a baking soda paste.Keep a small box or shaker box of baking soda in your car to sprinkle on your hands after you pump gas. Wipe them clean with a damp paper towel found right there at the pump. No more smelly gas on your hands!There, I've listed ten fabulous, fun, and frugal uses of baking soda. The book will give you 495 more.Oh, do you know that virtually all of the baking soda in America comes from Green River, Wyoming, from the mined mineral, trona? It is also manufactured in one natural factory--your body! It keeps our saliva from dissolving our teeth and neutralizes stomach acids. It also carries carbon dioxide from body tissues to the lungs where it is exhaled. An amazing thing is baking soda.

I bet if you open ANY page, you are going to find very useful ideas about simple baking soda! IF more people knew and used what's in this book, they'd save a ton of money on chemical filled, often harmful items they buy at stores. From personal grooming to cleaning to so many other things, this book gives tips to save money while keeping you and your world healthier. Rocks my world!

This book is a wonderful resource for anyone that wants to 'green' up their housecleaning, and it also gives tons of ideas on uses for baking soda. I have been trying to eliminate harmful chemicals from my household as much as possible now that I have a little one on the way. This book along with  Vinegar: Over 400 Various, Versatile, and Very Good Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of  by the same auther, and  Green Housekeeping  by Ellen Sandbeck provide a well rounded reference for using natural products instead of chemicals for just about any job around the house from cleaning appliances, sinks, tubs and toilets, to cleaning jewelry and composting. Even if you only take a handful of the ideas from these books they are worth the investment. This book is set up so that you can easily look up a job you want to accomplish in the index and go right to the appropriate page.

Remember when Arm & Hammer was high on our grocery list?Down memory lane with all the old household advise for using Baking Soda in cooking, laundry, gardening, dental care, grooming, pet care and a few new ones, for use in our vehicle, while camping, and as play projects. I'm reminded again, there really is no need to spend so many dollars on oil based products with 'grab me' names and colorful packaging. Just keep on hand Baking Soda, vinegar, ammonia, lemon juice, peroxide and clorax - can do it all.The book is well laid out with a cartoon on the first page of each section. Easy to read big print, lots of bullets, a dark font heading for each area of tips... from making your own low acid coffee to, making dirty windows sparkle or, clean your suade skirt.This is one book I wish each chapter included a pull-out laminated chart that I could slip into places like the laundry, medicine cabinet or kitchen drawer.

This is a rather curious little book of uses for baking soda. This would be a great book to keep in the kitchen for reference as it has an easy index guide to look up specific uses for cooking or basic cleaning. After having read it all the way through, I was surprised to see that some readers had rated it so high. The main problem is, most of the ideas that I or an average person may use are already common knowledge. While some are nifty, there are some far out and lesser know uses that appear very tedious and down right dangerous. For example there is one use that describes mixing baking soda with straight bleach of all things. I don't like mixing anything with bleach and would never do this. There is also a recipe for tooth whitener that involves mixing baking soda with lemon juice. Most people know that pure lemon juice can be harmful to tooth enamel and I would never do that either. To further torment my instinctual sense of self preservation, the author rather cryptically admits that she has not tried all these "fabulous" uses and to proceed with caution. Don't get your hopes up with this book.

This book is great! It has all kinds of uses for baking soda, and the ones I've tried really work! It's a fun book just for reading, but it's really worth it if you want to find ways to clean without chemicals or freshen a room, refrigerator, etc. without adding another smell. My mother-in-law had a cat locked in her house while they were on vacation, and the clean-up was immense. I suggested putting baking soda around to help with the stench and she said it really worked. The book also gives a short history of baking soda which is interesting.

Great little book, a few things I knew but a lot I didn't. I can see me refering to this book regularly and not wasting my money on commercial cleaning products.

Just plain brilliant - great tips for all manner of every day situations. I fell in love with baking soda after reading this book and now all my family stock it in their kitchens and lives!

very good - I didnt know Baking soda had so many uses - just need to find out where I can buy 1kg bags of baking soda, most supermarkets only have small boxes which can be expensive

ok

a little general. things are probably copied, without trying.