For many, the new year marks the start of organizing, cleaning, and home projects. So today, I’m sharing 18 home uses for baking soda that will amaze you!
18 Home Uses for Baking Soda
#1 Baking Soda Sea Art
Did you know you can make art with baking soda? Just cook up some baking soda dough and create Baking Soda Sea Art for a unique DIY art piece.
To find more tips on using baking soda in the home, visit my 18 Home Use for Baking Soda board. Oh, and while you’re there, don’t forget to sign-up and become a member on Hometalk. You’ll not only find lots of inspiration for just about any type of project, but you’ll be able to share your projects as well. Enjoy and hope to see you there!
Do you have a useful tip for using baking soda in the home? Tell me how your favorite way to use baking soda in the home in the comments below.
#2 Sweet Tomatoes – Baking Soda in the Soil is the Trick
Planning on a growing some tomatoes? Carol at The Gardening Cook shows you her trick to sweet tomatoes. She explains how and when to add baking soda to the soil for a sweeter tomato harvest.
#3 How to Remove Scratches from Dishes
Use baking soda to remove those black marks from your cups & dishes. This is one I’m going to try on some of my coffee cups.
#4 Make Your Tires and Hubcaps Look Brand New
After cleaning your car, don’t forget about the tires! POPSUGAR. gives us a simple recipe to create an awesome scrub to tackle built up dirt and tire grime.
#5 Deodorize Stinky Laundry: Baking Soda Solutions
#6 DIY Air Fresheners
#7 Baking Soda vs. Tarnished Silver
Linda at It All Started with Paint shares her tip to keeping silver tarnish free with no scrubbing or elbow grease required!
#8 Baking Soda Shower Door Cleaner
Get rid of soap scum on your shower doors with baking soda! It’ll cut through the scum and leave you with squeaky clean doors.
#9 Homemade Goo Gone
Bev at The Make Your Own Zone shares her homemade Goo Gone recipe that helps remove those pesky bottle labels without any harsh chemicals.
#10 DIY Garbage Disposal Cleaning Tabs
Get rid of garbage disposal odor and keep them smelling cleaning by using DIY Garbage Disposal Cleaning Tabs and a few ice cubes.
#11 Clean Your Stove Vents
Diane at The Everyday Cinderella has an awesome visual tutorial and tips to show you how to use baking soda to clean your stove vents. Can you see the difference?! I’m totally doing this.
#12 Miracle Worker Stain Remover
Have tough food stains? Try this miracle worker stain remover from Michelle at Learning to Be a Mom. She was able to remove year old chocolate stains with this recipe! (site no longer running)
#13 Refrigerator Deodorizer
I think everyone knows about this one. Just place an open box of baking soda into your refrigerator or freezer to eliminate odors.
#14 Clean The Tops of Greasy Kitchen Cabinets
Get sticky built up greasy grime off the tops of your kitchen cabinets with a little baking soda and vinegar. It can get a bit messy, but the results are amazing!
#15 Wash Fruits & Veggies
Info gathered from around the web says that soaking your fruits and vegetables for a few minutes in a baking soda and water bath will help remove more unwanted pesticides than water alone. Not sure how true this is, but it’s worth doing if it does help.
#16 Simple DIY Exfoliating Baking Soda Face Mask Recipe
I’ve never used baking soda on my face, but there are tons of people who have tried this and swear by it. They say it makes your skin smooth and soft.
#17 The Best Way to Clean Your Oven
Water and generous amounts of baking soda can get your oven clean. There are mixed reviews on this method. Some people love it and some hate it. I’ve tried it and this does take some elbow grease.
#18 Baking Soda as Shampoo
I’ve seen this floating around the web and haven’t taken the jump yet. It sounds really interesting and is said to help with dry flaky scalps.
Great collection of ideas! One of my favorite uses for bicarb soda is with Missy’s sippy cups and bottles when she had them – I just soak them in hot water and vinegar and add a few spoons of bicarb soda to get rid of any new plastic or old milk and juice odors.
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Great subject to curate! I love baking soda, we use it for everything we can here. Thanks for sharing at the Homestead Blog Hop, hope we see you again this week.
Thanks for coming over to visit!
I love using baking soda for cleaning around the house. So happy to learn more uses for it. Congrats, you’re featured this week on This Is How We Roll Link Party on Organized 31.
Thanks for the feature! Added your party button and feature button to my party pages.
Wow, love the sea art! Stopped by from Together on Tuesdays at Chronically Content. You have some great ideas here.
Thanks Pam. I love working with baking soda dough.
What a useful post there are some great tips here. Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again. Have a great day!!
It really is amazing what a small box of baking soda can do.
Thanks for sharing this post leading to the many uses for Baking Soda to Together on Tuesdays #25 🙂
Thanks for the party Lisa! Who knew there were so many great uses for baking soda!
This is a really informative post – I definitely learnt a lot of new ways to use baking soda! Thank you so much for attending week 19 of #PureBlogLove and linking your fantastic blog post, I can’t wait to see what you have in store for our next party, Thursday 8 PM EST- Sundays at midnight. Your post has been added to the #PureBlogLove Pinterest board for all to see 🙂 Have a great day!
Nicole
Thanks Nicole for the party and coming over to visit my blog 🙂
Hi Erlene thank you so much for linking up with #wednedayswisdom and I love your post on baking soda I cannot wait to see what you bring next week. It is always so nice to find new blogs to read! Have a great week.
Thank you for the party and taking the time to visit me.
So cute! Good job!
Thank you.
Great tips! Love the baking soda sea art. Had no idea baking soda was so versatile! Thanks for sharing at Let’s Get Real Friday Party 🙂
Thanks for the party. I’ll be there again.
Great ideas! I had no idea you could use baking soda for so much! 🙂
It’s really amazing that baking soda can be used for so many things.
I love all the different uses listed here. Looking forward to putting this knowledge to use.
I just used baking soda to take off a label and it worked!
Thank you for sharing!
Glad to share!
love this! pinned for later!
Thanks for pinning.
Such great ideas! I never would have thought of these 🙂
Some of them were new to me too. I love finding new things on Hometalk.
I, too, am a baking soda fan. In the last year, I’ve tried to go totally green with my cleaning. Baking soda is a big part of my new regimen. I had no idea, however, that you can do crafts with baking soda. Very cool. I’m going to try the sea art. Love it!
Yes, you can do crafts! Super fun and easy too.
Love using baking soda for cleaning around the house!
It’s really amazing all the things you can clean and do with baking soda.
Where has this been my whole life! Love that you can make art out of Baking Soda!
Yes…don’t you love it?! You can make gift tags, ornaments, and so many other decorative things.
Can’t live without baking soda! There are so many uses!
I’m amazed at all it can do. I even bought myself a giant sized box because I use it so often.
Love the baking soda sea art! I’m off to check out your curated board. 🙂 Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty 🙂
~Lorelai
Life With Lorelai
Thanks Lorelai. Are you on Hometalk too?
Great ideas. I just tried cleaning out my oily stove extraction fan with baking soda. I boiled it in a water and soda solution – worked really well and didn’t have to use any elbow grease!
Thanks for reminding me. I need to do that.
These are great ideas! Baking soda is so handy. I’ll definitely have to try it on my shower door. I never thought of that!
Who knew you could use baking soda in so many places around the house! I’ll definitely be using it more often around the house now.
I never thought about using baking soda for getting off sticky gunk off of jars. I will have to try that next time!
I hate to admit that I use my nail polish remover, but baking soda is a good alternative for those that want to got the natural route.
That baking soda sea art is awesome! I always have a box of baking soda on hand.
Thanks Melissa. I recently broke it and and now I have to make a new one 🙁
Baking soda and vinegar will fix almost everything. I recently made homemade snow with baking soda. It turned out great.
Thanks for stopping by Wonderful Wed. Blog Hop.
Pinned.
Many blessings,
Diane Roark
What?! Homemade snow…I’ll have to look that up.