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I have been happy with everything I've attempted so far. I absolutely love this book. It has helped me to turn my home into a clean, toxin free, child friendly place.
"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. 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. It keeps our saliva from dissolving our teeth and neutralizes stomach acids. 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. It also carries carbon dioxide from body tissues to the lungs where it is exhaled. In the morning remove the ammonia, sprinkle the oven with baking soda and wipe down with damp paper towels. An amazing thing is baking soda.
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. It is also manufactured in one natural factory--your body. 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. Rinse and let dry. No more smelly gas on your hands.There, I've listed ten fabulous, fun, and frugal uses of baking soda.
Baking soda is natural, inexpensive, and so easy to use. Wipe them clean with a damp paper towel found right there at the pump. Rinse with a clean sponge and dry.Leave 1 cup ammonia in a cold, closed oven overnight. 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. Make the dirtiest windows sparkle by washing them with a wet sponge sprinkled with baking soda.
The main problem is, most of the ideas that I or an average person may use are already common knowledge. Most people know that pure lemon juice can be harmful to tooth enamel and I would never do that either. 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.
I don't like mixing anything with bleach and would never do this. 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. There is also a recipe for tooth whitener that involves mixing baking soda with lemon juice.
This is a rather curious little book of uses for baking soda. For example there is one use that describes mixing baking soda with straight bleach of all things. Don't get your hopes up with this book.
After having read it all the way through, I was surprised to see that some readers had rated it so high. While some are nifty, there are some far out and lesser know uses that appear very tedious and down right dangerous.
Worth the money. I've enjoyed learning all the ways I can use baking soda around the house for cleaning. Most of the ideas work.
Can be a big money saver if you know about its capabilities. I was amazed at the many ways baking soda can be used and this book gives a lot of information for both household cleaning and hygenic ways to use it.
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