Use Bi-Carb Soda for Health, the Home, and First Aid
Bi-Carb soda
Reduce Cleaning Costs
There are many uses for bicarbonate of soda in your home: cooking, cleaning, odours, and first aid to name a few.
We all need to reduce our spending on unnecessary cleaning products. One way to do this is by using bicarb-soda or the correct name is bi-carbonate of soda.
You will be amazed at how many things you can use this product for. I will list a few of the most common that I use.
Disclaimer: I have not tried all of these so take no responsibility for the results.
Here are a few ideas :
- First Aid
- Removing odours
- Personal use
- Putting out fires
Removing Odours
Onion odour: Wet your hands and rub a little bicarb into them, then wash off. There is nothing worse than this smell on your hands long after you finished dinner. (Another tip to remove the smell is to peel your potatoes, I believe the starch in the spud helps soak it up.)
Fridge odours: Use a teaspoon of bicarb in litre of water and wash out the inside of refrigerator. To absorb other food odours in fridge, place a small quantity in a lid and leave at the back of fridge (where it wont be knocked over).
First Aid and Health and Safety: Bee Stings, Rashes and Sunburn
Apply a paste of bicarb and water to affected area, this will help sooth it in no time.
With bug bites you could try adding some vinegar to the mix.
Skin irritations
Soak in a soda bath – this will relieve and soothe many skin irritations like chicken pox or measles. Also, a bath will soften your skin.
Baby’s bath
Put 2 tablespoons of soda in the baby’s bath, this will help sooth their diaper rash or any skin irritations
Sunburn and Windburn
Mix up a liquid paste of bicarb soda and water and apply to burned areas
Indigestion
Place ½ teaspoon bicarb soda in small glass of water and drink, this should relieve heartburn or indigestion.
Teeth Cleaning
To whiten and clean your teeth or dentures- Dip Toothbrush into bicarb and brush your teeth then rinse mouth out. Soak dentures in a mixture of bi-soda and water.
Fires
Kitchen, Garage or car–electrical or grease fires
Keep a spare box of bicarb in the kitchen, garage, or even the car as it will help put out a fire. Throw handfuls of bicarb soda on the fire to put it out.
Substitute Bicarb Soda for an Egg in Cooking
- Eggless cake and Biscuit cooking plus kitchen tips
How often have you decided to cook a cake or something and found you have no eggs? Well look no more it is quite simple. No egg: If you run short of eggs then use 1/2 a teaspoon of bicarb with a...
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