25 Useful Baking Soda Hacks and Tricks That Will Blow You Away

Carpets, Good as New

Carpets are definitely some of the dirtiest parts of any household. They need not be, however, as seasoning your carpets’ dirtiest parts with bicarb, followed by a good scrubbing with heated water, will cause the carpets to suck in the mixture overnight. On the following day, get your vacuum out to suck up any of the remaining liquid to replenish your carpet’s beauty and fragrance. No one likes to suffer through a dirty carpet in their home, and this is especially pertinent if you have pets.

Carpets Good As New

Sweet Smelling Breath

No one likes to be told that their breath stinks. And yet, so many of our expensive attempts at eliminating halitosis simply fail. There simply is no reason to waste your time and money when you can simply swirl some heated water and bicarb in your mouth like mouthwash for the safest social interactions possible! Make your next date a confident one and keep yourself in a fully kissable condition.

Sweet Smelling Breath

A Bodily Confidence

If you’ve ever found that your armpits were the source of a foul stench, you might want to consider swishing a bit of heated water with baking soda and then scrubbing the smelly hidden areas. Bicarb is completely harmless to the skin, unlike alcohol-based deodorant. This is especially beneficial for those who suffer from a particularly powerful brand of body odor or do not like the idea of spraying potentially harmful chemicals onto their sensitive areas.

A Bodily Confidence

Bring Your Home to Life

Bicarb is an excellent and affordable alternative to air fresheners, especially considering that it actually exterminates the stinky sources, rather than just masking them. You’ll also be sparing your family from the unidentifiable mixtures of chemicals that air fresheners introduce. While you might think that you are doing your fellow home members a service by dousing the general area with air freshener, no one really likes this stuff. Throw it in the bin!

Bring Your Home To Life

Revamping the Bathroom

While we all need to share the bathroom, we also share a lot of dirt and bacteria due to the amount of subtle filth that collects in this room. Whether mold is growing in the shower floor, or your bathtub is starting to change color, producing a bicarb paste by mixing the powder with heated water before scrubbing affected areas will revamp the whole space. In twenty-minutes’ time, wash the mixture off completely.

Revamping The Bathroom

Cleaning Cutlery

You really don’t need to splurge on fancy silverware to make your home dinner parties really stand out. Whatever you have in your kitchen drawers can be beautifully brought to sparkle with a simple solution of heated water and bicarb. You will be amazed at how quickly and easily your cutlery can be restored to brand new with some concerted polishing. Having an esteemed guest over for dinner that you are desperate to impress? Stick to bicarb!

Cleaning Cutlery

A Winning Set of Teeth

While your toothbrush cleans your teeth daily without fail, you might want to consider returning the favor some time. Especially considering that our mouths contain a vast number of bacteria which rubs off onto toothbrushes. Don’t be discouraged – if you mix heated water, bicarb together and simply dunk your toothbrush in the solution for half an hour, you will be eliminating whatever microscopic bugs and bacteria have bred in it.

A Winning Set Of Teeth

Itchy Spots

You might be surprised to learn that most creams used for treating bug bites actually contain baking soda! It’s now time for you to make your own inexpensive itchy spot-removal solution by just dabbing a bit of bicarb onto the affected areas. Don’t overdo it, however, this isn’t a beauty treatment! This hack is especially beneficial during summertime when the mosquitoes come back with a vengeance. You will never have to waste money on bug repellent again.

Itchy Spots

Salvaging Crockery

No matter how sentimentally attached we are to our pots and pans, there comes a time when we’re convinced that it’s time to toss them. With bicarb, however, you may find that the crumbling surfaces of your favorite pot can actually be easily remedied. Try soaking your damaged crockery in a solution of boiling water and bicarb for a few hours. You may just be cooking your favorite meals with them the next day after a good scrub!

Salvaging Crockery

Odorous Footwear

Anyone with an active lifestyle will, unfortunately, suffer the curse of stinky shoes. This is merely the price we pay for productivity. Do you know what else is productive? Actually cleaning your shoes effectively! Just a teaspoon of bicarb smothered onto a disposable cloth stuffed into an odorous pair of shoes will bring them back to fragrant action in just a few days. Some people feel like their particularly stinky trainers are beyond redemption, not so!

Odorous Footwear

Reducing Indigestion

Whether your heart feels like it’s on fire, or this morning’s breakfast didn’t go down well, a teaspoon of bicarb dissolved into a cup of water will sort your heartburn out faster than any popular indigestion product. Bicarb speedily reverses the acidity within your stomach, eliminating indigestion and associated distress. For those who often find themselves reacting painfully to even the mildest of food, this is an excellent way to avoid wasting a lot of money on Pepto Bismol.

Reducing Indigestion

Tackling Cancer

While cancer is obviously one of the most complex diseases to treat, requiring difficult and intense treatments, it never hurts to reinforce recovery with some household help. Building on the last point, bicarb is a phenomenal acid neutralizer, a substance which can aid the effectiveness of chemotherapy. With acidity aiding in the breeding of cancer cells, bicarb can greatly work towards curbing this undesirable manifestation by raising your bodily pH.

Tackling Cancer

Feet, Soft to the Touch

The body parts which get us everywhere we need to be, sadly often receive the least care, which is a shame considering how much weight we put on them. They deserve attention, especially if they’re starting to feel worn or are aching, which just means they need some spoiling!

Feet Soft To The Touch

You are going to really enjoy this treatment. It involves stirring three tablespoons of bicarb into a tiny tub or bowl of heated water before plunging your feet in. Sit back, relax, and let the wonder powder return gentleness to your feet and toes. Heaven!

A Safe Driveway

Winter brings with it all manner of intensities, a lethally slippery driveway being one of them. Save your salt this winter and opt for a generous dousing of bicarb and watch the ice melt away without robbing your kitchen of its seasoning. The very real danger of slipping during the winter seasons is an incredibly dangerous domestic presence that needs to be warded off whenever possible. Keep your family safe this winter!

A Safe Driveway

An Astonishing Laundry Discovery

It is rare that your washing comes out smelling worse than it did before being washed. You then are forced to put the same load in again for a second spin. You may be wondering just why your machine is stinking up your clothing. It is nothing serious, just a bit of mold. Everything starts smelling a bit after a long time of usage. You can bust the moldiness easily with an empty laundry machine cycle loaded with bicarb and vinegar.

An Astonishing Laundry Discovery

A Perpetually Flaky Scalp

This is one of those pesky and very uncomfortable (and unattractive) conditions which often refuses to heal. Even after expensive visits to a dermatologist and the application of various products to your scalp, dandruff just continues to collect. Maybe it is time to test out rubbing your scalp with baking soda while in the shower, followed by a thorough cleansing. The results may amaze you, and you can forget about those expensive hair products!

A Perpetually Flaky Scalp

Busting Pesky Vehicle Marks

Whether your kids continually drop ice cream and chocolates all over your seats, or your work involves the porting of messy items, car stains can really take a lot out of your car’s overall condition. Do not hesitate to nip into the kitchen for some baking soda with which to scrub the car seats with. Follow the scrubbing up with some wet cloth washing and your seats are now back to perfection!

Busting Pesky Vehicle Marks

Sweet Dreams

A mattress is another piece of furniture that gets dirtier than you could imagine. Why not pepper the beloved sleep station with some baking soda? The effectiveness of this treatment strongly depends on how long you leave it on, from fifteen minutes to a whole night. Achieving a nightly and pleasing rest is such a difficult thing to achieve in such a stressful and stimulating world filled with bright and noisy electronics.

Sweet Dreams

Unwind and Destress

Life is quite challenging, with work, raising kids, and a demanding social life. You will find yourself running around more and more as you get older and take on more responsibilities. Take some time to treat yourself to a truly therapeutic experience: a scented and luxurious bicarb bath. All it takes is an ounce of the healing power and for you to truly soak in all of that calming goodness.

Unwind And Destress

Foot Fighter

You really should deal with those pesky corns and calluses on your feet. They may not be lethal, but they do bring ache and discomfort. Take the worst out of these nasty lumps by soaking your feet in a bicarb and water solution. You do not need to worry about sanding your feet with this process, as the hardened parts of your feet will soon be soothed and fade away.

Foot Fighter

Omelets Done Right

While you may have your own special recipe and way of making omelets the way you like them, you cannot deny that the fluffier an omelet is, the better. Your guests will certainly not be able to hide their delight when you serve them an airy, impossibly light omelet. Simply whisk half a teaspoon of bicarb along with your three eggs and other ingredients. Getting that perfectly custardy omelet is no longer a mission!

Omelets Done Right

Draining Your Tears

Anyone who has suffered the scourge of a blocked drain will tell you it is one of the most tearfully aggravating domestic chores to unstick. With this solution – you had best be ready for some volcanic effects! Mix some boiling water with bicarb before dumping it down a malfunctioning drain. Now, get ready for some hygienic fireworks! Step back and allow the fizzing solution to do its work before washing away the excess down the drain with hot water.

Draining Your Tears

Kitchen Odors

While the garbage disposal is one of the niftier waste management creations, it’s also the smelliest. Luckily, by following the same logic from the previous step, you can remedy unattractive garbage disposal in a few steps. First, let’s clean out the unit with boiling water for around one minute. Then, chuck in one-quarter cup of bicarb, followed by a single cup of vinegar, before turning the system on and enjoy the fizzing show! You will then want to wash out the machine after around ten minutes before giving the system a good wash with pure water for a couple of minutes.

Kitchen Odors

The Perfect Smile

Out of all cosmetic procedures and treatments, teeth whitening is definitely one of the trickiest to perform, even decently. These beauty processes are also some of the most expensive. You don’t need to dig into your wallet when you can just combine one-quarter of a teaspoon’s worth of bicarb with some water before brushing your teeth nicely. And, voila! Your teeth are now starting to come through dazzlingly with each bicarb brushing.

The Perfect Smile

Aching Throat Relief

A sore throat is one of humanity’s most frequently suffered conditions. With a certain virus now floating around the world, having an itchy throat is enough to get anyone panicking. You have assured peace of mind by gargling a solution of warm water and bicarb, something that will soothe both your fears and your throat. Too many people suck on endless amounts of lozengers or keep stocked up with expensive cough syrups.

Aching Throat Relief

DIY Manicures

While getting that stunning set of painted nails might have seemed like a great idea a few weeks ago, the polish is now starting to wear and chip, looking very unattractive. You don’t need a beautician to get you out of this cosmetic mess when you can do it all yourself by mixing peroxide and soda. Give your fingernails a good scrub with the solution and enjoy the clean results!

DIY Manicures

Armpit Stain Removal

Summer is fast approaching, and you can’t wait to hit the beach, but you’ve discovered your armpits are dark. Don’t fret, bicarb is here to help, mixed with water and applied under your arms for a limit of half an hour. Clean it all off with heated water and make sure that you keep the treatment going a few times per week for the best performance. Keep your secret areas fresh and sweet smelling.

Armpit Stain Removal

Sporting Energy

Athletes will consume a plethora of expensive and often unnatural shakes, drinks, and powders to make the most out of their performances. Unbeknownst to many sportspeople, bicarb works just as well as these fangled products, delaying fatigue. You now no longer need to guzzle down enormous tins of extremely sugary drinks that also contain all manner of unhealthy chemicals. The energy drink industry is one that is best avoided, for your health.

Sporting Energy

Helping Kidneys Out

With all of the incredible uses for bicarb, both for health and domesticity, it makes sense that bicarb can also aid in stalling the development of chronic kidney conditions. You may find yourself dodging dialysis if you keep your bicarb consumption up! A healthy and balanced diet is still essential for healthy kidney functioning, however, and we recommend that you drink at least eight glasses of water every day too.

Helping Kidneys Out

Professional Weed Whacking

Pulling weeds out manually on your hands and knees is almost as upsetting as the destructive presence they bring to your outside home area. With bicarb at hand, you need never worry about painful weed whacking, as seasoning even the hardiest of weeds will eradicate them from your property. Avoid having to get on your hands and knees for some painful and tiring weed pulling with the simplest of home ingredients.

Professional Weed Whacking

Polishing the Microwave

Your microwave will handle multiple meals every week, so it comes as no surprise if it starts looking a bit grubby (as well as smelling funny) over time. Take a kitchen sponge coated generously with bicarb and go to work on the inside of your microwave. It’s then time to vigorously clean the appliance out with warm water. Microwaves are notoriously filthy appliances that sadly get neglected in the general kitchen cleaning process.

Polishing The Microwave

Reclaiming Your Hairbrush

Look closely at your hairbrush – it’s probably looking a bit yucky, clogged with hair and products, right? Give it a bath in heated water with a teaspoon’s worth of baking soda to boot, then wash carefully and leave to dry. You will be amazed at how silky and smooth your hair is after using your bicarb-treated hairbrush, and will not have to suffer through painful and fussy untangling any longer.

Reclaiming Your Hairbrush

Grilling with Pride

You’ve probably tried all manner of wacky grill-cleaning methods, but have you ever considered that bicarb might be the best solution to advert-quality barbecuing? Instead of stinky onions, try scrubbing your grill with a bicarb paste before washing it thoroughly. Show your grill the love that it deserves for keeping your family and friends so happily well-fed during barbeques. You will need to do regular cleaning maintenance jobs on your grill to keep it working for years to come.

Grilling With Pride

Sparkling Flooring

Bicarb’s place in maintaining marvelously polished floors in your home is as simple as adding around one-hundred grams of the powder to your mop bucket. You might notice something different about your floors when you finish – you can actually see yourself looking back! You will no longer need to use harmful detergents anymore, which soak into your bare feet and cause pain and irritation in people with sensitive skin.

Sparkling Flooring

The Comprehensive Kitchen Cleanser

We all love spending time in the kitchen with all of its handy appliances. What we dislike, however, is cleaning up after our gourmet cooking. To save you the trouble, you could just place your water-safe appliances into an empty dishwasher with a cup of bicarb. Taking care of your kitchen can be a laborious and gritty task, one that people love to hold off until they are living in relative squalor.

The Comprehensive Kitchen Cleanser

Cleaning up Kitty Mess

Cats may be the more hygienically conscious household pets, but their litter boxes could still use a bit of freshening. This can be done by lining the bottom of the box with a layer of bicarb, which will then clear its smellier qualities. You can now clean your kitty’s haven without having to use potentially harmful chemicals. Cats are incredibly sensitive animals, and may avoid their litter boxes if their scent is washed out of it.

Cleaning Up Kitty Mess

For the Best Hair

Your favorite hair conditioner just got even better with a dash of bicarb added! This new and improved product will now reinvigorate your hair, removing split ends. As you can see from the picture below, bicarb works perfectly with all hair types and does not leave any undesirable effects after being used. We love what bicarb has done for our hair, and in combination with coconut oil, has left us looking like supermodels!

For The Best Hair

Can Rubbish Bins Smell Good?

Believe it or not, your trash bin can actually smell quite pleasant if you can spare a minute to coat the inside with bicarb. Following a decent wash, your trash bin will now smell much better than it previously did. While we will ensure that our trash gets taken out regularly, what about the actual object that holds the bags? You will not believe how much bacteria collects in there!

Can Rubbish Bins Smell Good

Chicken Pox Relief

Chickenpox doesn’t have to be an itchy nightmare. With an ointment made from a mixture of heated water and a half tablespoon of baking soda, you can dab the uncomfortable areas of your skin for cooling relief. Suffering through chickenpox is an unavoidable part of growing up, but you do not need to suffer too badly, as there are ways of bringing some relief to this itchy and uncomfortable process. Can you remember having chickenpox when you were a child?

Chicken Pox Relief

Restoring Food Containers

Your trusty plastic lunch container might be sturdy, but is it clean? Everyone loves taking leftover spaghetti bolognaise to work, but the classic meal is sure to stain your container a deeper shade of orange. Use the trusty baking soda and heated water solution to scrub them back to their original quality and color. Stop scaring away your coworkers with your grubby Tupperware and return your workplace to enjoyable hygiene.

Restoring Food Containers

Sanitizing Sponges

We all regard the common sink sponge as harmless, but they can often be breeding grounds for bacteria. This doesn’t mean you need to trash your seasoned sponge, however, as leaving it in a tub of heated water and baking soda will have it completely cleansed by the following morning. We want you to make sure that you are cleaning your cutlery and crockery with only the most hygienic tools.

Sanitizing Sponges

Eliminating Furry Scents

Not a single pet-loving homeowner will share the affection they hold for their canines and felines with their beds. You can eliminate such stinks by simply adding in some absorbing bicarbonate soda, the leftovers easily hoovered up the next day.

Eliminating Furry Scents

Sore Mouths

Beyond clean-smelling breath, a bicarb mouthwash can also remedy the canker sores behind your now perfect smile. Apply this solution twice a day for the best results, until the sores fade away.

Sore Mouths

Small Fire Buster

Obviously, you need to leave the bigger fires to actual firefighters. For a manageable fire emergency – like the small ones which can suddenly erupt when cooking – baking soda (which happens to be an essential component of fire extinguishers) will serve as an immediate extinguisher.

Small Fire Buster

Soothing Baby Bottoms

Diaper rash is, for many parents and babies, an unavoidable part of childrearing. You sadly cannot cure this condition, but you can alleviate your tot’s misery by filling a nice warm bath with bicarb and keeping your baby entertained in it for a good period. No more tears, no more discomfort!

Soothing Baby Bottoms

Removing Child Graffiti

A penchant for vandalism manifests early in some children, who love to redecorate your walls with their personal style. If their flair doesn’t match the rest of your home’s art, however, don’t hesitate to remove it by scrubbing with a solution of heated water and baking soda.

Removing Child Graffiti

Traditional Diaper Hygiene

While not every parent prefers disposable diapers, many opting for cloth ones, every parent wants a clean diaper for their baby (and household) to enjoy. While many may not be able to stomach reusing a diaper, you can comprehensively clean one by letting it simmer in boiled water combined with half a cup of baking soda, prior to passing it through the washing machine.

Traditional Diaper Hygiene

A Heavenly Wardrobe

You will be amazed at how much of a difference placing a container of baking soda will make to the insides of your wardrobe. Eliminate any trace of mold or other odors in your work and social wear!

A Heavenly Wardrobe

Bouquet Life

Out of all of the uses for bicarb, this one has to be one of the most amazing, as it is life-sustaining! Bicarb will prolong the perkiness and color of your home’s flower arrangements by adding a teaspoon of the versatile stuff to vase water.

Bouquet Life

A Clear Shower Curtain

Shower curtains easily get moldy, seemingly ruined and then tossed in the trash. Doing this regularly is actually a health hazard, as these kinds of curtains often contain PVC. Instead of merely trashing them, give them a session in the washing machine with some towels included, which will aid in scrubbing the curtain clean, along with a full cup of baking soda.

A Clear Shower Curtain

Cooking Oil Cleanup

Cooking oil is one of those substances that easily spills onto clothes, carpets, and furniture. Before you begin with this particular treatment, make sure to mop up as much oil off the material at hand as you can. Now, season the stain with baking soda, let fifteen minutes of absorption pass, then hoover up the remaining powder.

Cooking Oil Cleanup

Simple Couch Restoring

Couches, unfortunately, collect much in the way of dust, dirt and all manner of unidentifiable pongs. You can easily bring your couch back to healthy hygienic comfort by seasoning it with baking soda. This nifty powder will now absorb much of the dirtiness and stinky factors throughout the night. The following morning, treat your couch to thorough vacuuming and get rid of all the remaining baking soda powder.

Simple Couch Restoring

Erasing Vacuum Cleaner Dirt

Is there anything that bicarb cannot clean? Your hoover is next in line for a spectacular cleaning, just make sure that you dismantle the device and give each piece a good amount of love with a mixture of bicarb and water. Your device will smell and perform all the better for it.

Erasing Vacuum Cleaner Dirt

Diamonds are Forever

Your most beloved jewelry pieces deserve to be shown some cleaning attention. All you need to do is keep them in some heated water mixed with two baking soda teaspoons for about thirty minutes. Enjoy your beloved pieces’ return to store-bought quality and shine.

Diamonds Are Forever

Cheap and Effective Dry Shampoo

“Why would I use bicarb, when I can just use dry shampoo?”, you may ask yourself. Well, the answer might surprise you: bicarb is a major component of dry shampoo, and obviously way cheaper! To use bicarb as a dry shampoo alternative, apply some to your hairbrush and comb it through your hair gently, tapping off the buildup. Say goodbye to oily, flat hair!

Cheap And Effective Dry Shampoo

Gentle to the Touch Clothing

Further to bicarb’s aid in achieving irritant and chemical-free cleanliness is its usage in washing clothes. It can effectively and affordably replace commercial washing powder while providing the same perfect cleaning effects.

Gentle To The Touch Clothing

Revolutionizing Refrigeration

Fridges are another type of appliance which can become stuffed with strange smells. We’re all guilty of leaving leftovers in for too long from time to time, but we don’t need to suffer the consequences. Combat that unwanted bacteria and its attached stench by placing some bicarb in a container inside the fridge, ensuring that you mix it up now and then to guarantee that the effects permeate. Make sure to repeat this process now and then, maybe even giving your fridge’s interior a good wipe down with a baking soda and water solution.

Revolutionizing Refrigeration

More Bathroom Solutions

Showering and bathing may be essential, but the hot vapors breed mildew and mold inside your bathroom. You can take out these nasty buildups with the trusty baking soda and water solution and a sponge.

More Bathroom Solutions

Considering Tiles

Tile grout. We hate it, but often cannot be bothered to clean it out of our painstakingly placed decorations. If you have some spare time this week, why not make a strong, one-part bicarb, one-part water solution and scrub your tiles back to beauty with a used toothbrush? Finish the job with a discarded damp cloth. It really won’t take that long, and you’ll thank yourself when your guests compliment you on the state of your home!

Considering Tiles

Teddy Bears Need Love Too!

Your children’s Teddy Bears will often join them in their dirty play. While your children may get washed, Teddies often go on unattended to, gathering much dirt and bacteria. You can toss these furry friends in a sizable bag, along with one hundred grams of baking soda, before giving the bag a good shake. Then, remove the toys and shake the coating bicarb off, finishing with a vacuum treatment.

Teddy Bears Need Love Too

Patio Furniture Revamp

Before you arrange your furniture on the patio for that sweet summer lounging, make sure to give them a good clean with our famous water and baking soda mixture and a damp cloth. If you feel that more work could be done, season your furniture with more baking soda, leave them for a quarter of an hour, then hoover.

Patio Furniture Revamp

Giving Foot Issues the Boot

As if we haven’t covered enough medical uses for bicarb, it turns out that this powder is excellent for clearing nail and foot infections. Lather your feet or hands in a baking soda paste made using water, then wash it off and dry carefully. Make sure to put some talcum powder on afterward to ward off moisture.

Giving Foot Issues The Boot

Say Goodbye to Bleach!

Sometimes, doing the washing turns into an absolute mission when certain items simply won’t get clean. Bicarb is here to wash away your clothing woes, as a cup of the stuff stirred in with your preferred detergent will provide a level of shiny purity you didn’t know was possible!

Say Goodbye To Bleach

Cleaning the Fridge Properly

This deep cleanse can be achieved by placing an entire container of bicarb towards the back end of the fridge, which will then ward off any stinky traces. Make sure that you replace the container once every two months.

Cleaning The Fridge Properly

Following on from our previous smelly fridge intervention, a further, in-depth clean can be achieved if you really want to polish some of the stubborner sticky spots. Make sure that you really search for those out of the way locations in your fridge for those hidden and very off-putting areas.

Attaining Oral Perfection

Having bad breath is not only insufferable for those close by, but also leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. Mints and gum can only go so far and are bad for your teeth, anyway. Take control of your breath by gargling a solid mixture of a single teaspoon of bicarb into a glass of water. Spit and enjoy the perfect breath! Bicarb also acts as a strong and cleansing natural toothpaste. Just use it sparingly, as dentists have warned that it can be too abrasive if used too regularly. It is excellent, however, if you feel your pearls need a dedicated cleaning.

Attaining Oral Perfection