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Baking soda has many uses in a frugal home. This natural cleaning agent is one of the best ways I have found to get out dirt and grime. Baking soda has many uses. After much research, I have found this product to be a must have in our home.
When I purchase baking soda for our home, I go to Sam’s. Buying this product in bulk is super cost efficient for me. Baking soda if great for so many places in the home, I thought I would share my top ten:
Uses For Baking Soda:
1. Unclog a drain. Pour one cup down the drain. Wait a few minutes and run hot water for one minute. If this is done on a regular basis it will help keep drains unclogged.
2. Keep an open box in the refrigerator. Keep a box in the refrigerator it will keep it smelling fresh for a month.
3. Clean your toilet. Pour one cup of baking soda around the inside of the bowl, then add one cup of vinegar. Let it sit for 30 minutes then flush. Baking soda substitutes for toilet bowl cleaner.
Cooking with Baking Soda in a Frugal Home
This handy frugal home ingredient is a leavening agent. Using this in recipes will make the baked good rise. Aside from cakes and cookies baking soda works wonders when frying shrimp. Shrimp and onions will brown faster when using a small amount of baking soda. Also, if the onions left a smell in your fridge set a box in the back and it will absorb all of the odor.
4. Use baking soda in cooking. Many homemade recipes require this ingredient.
Best Ways to Use Baking Soda in Your Frugal Home
5. Add a cup to bath water to soften your skin. Who knew?
6. Put 2 tablespoons in baby’s bathwater to heal diaper rash.
7. Use to relieve bee stings. Mix one teaspoon of baking soda to 1/2 teaspoon of water. Mix together to make a paste. Apply to bee sting. The pain will be gone in minutes. The baking soda also aids in getting the stinger to come to the surface quickly.
8. Baking soda will keep flowers fresh longer. Add 2 teaspoons to water and fresh cut flowers will stay fresh longer. Mine have lasted an extra week or so using this method.
9. Sprinkle some baking soda across the top of the windshield. Then, use a wet rag and use it to clean the windshield from top to bottom. Wipe clean. Make sure the drivers’ side is not smeared to cause obstruction. Rain, sleet and snow will be repelled off of the windshield.
10. Use baking soda instead of hard abrasives. Clean the bathroom tub, sink, and shower floors with baking soda and notice how quickly the shine comes back. This product is great for getting out dirt and grime. Another great use for baking soda is on the stovetop. Sprinkle some baking soda and make a paste with water. Let it sit for 10 minutes, then wipe clean. Your stove will look brand new!
Why I Use Baking Soda
In addition to the many uses homemakers’ have for using baking soda in their frugal home, one simple fact remains that it is cheaper to buy one product as multipurpose than many. Many homemakers’ such as myself have a ton of outdated and underused products in our cleaning closet. The best way to save money is to not buy it. Baking soda even comes with a list of home uses on the back of the bag.
My bag lasts me a good while when I shop at a bulk store. Baking soda is great to have on hand for cooking, cleaning, stain treating, bee stings, and many other everyday uses that we ignore. Bee stings have no better remedy for pain that baking soda. I found this out many years’ ago.
Research Cleaning Products
Trying out homemade products versus store bought products is one of the best ways to do research. Identifying which one you will like best too clean with should ultimately be your decision.
First, try out a homemade recipe. Second, the next week try out a similar store bought product. Keep in the home management binder which product you preferred and why. The next generation may find that information useful.
I hope some of these ideas will work for you-
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I didn’t know about all this when it comes to baking soda! Thanks for sharing & thank you for linking up to Thrifty Thursday!
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these are great ideas…does this mean that it’s just baking soda in those fancy little packages that come with cut flowers?!?
We use Baking Soda to fix skunked-laundry. Every now and then I forget to put clothes into the dryer and they get “skunked”. Baking Soda is literally the ONLY cure. Thanks for the list!
I also watched your video on manicure – only prob is that I have to stop biting my nails first 🙂
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I add a cup of baking soda to my washing machine when washing towels. Keeps them smelling so fresh. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Encouraging Hearts and Home. Pinned.
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Thank you!