1. Clean Your Dishwasher – Run a load through your dishwasher with no dishes using baking soda instead of soap. It will give it a nice deep clean and get rid of any soapy residue.
2. Clean Your Clothes – If you have an extra dirty load, add some baking soda to your wash to tackle that oil and grease and help to keep your whites at their whitest. You can also run a load with a couple of towels and some baking soda to help get rid of that soapy residue smell that often develops in washing machines {especially if you have a front loader!}
3. Clean Your Toilet – I do have a disinfectant {this Norwex Sanira Toilet Brush System is great} that I use for our regular toilet cleaning but occasionally there ends up being some mineral build up that needs to be removed. Sprinkle any of the stains with baking soda, let it sit for about 30 minutes, and then rinse and scrub with vinegar. Works great for our hard water stains!
4. Clean The Air – Probably one of the most well known uses for baking soda is to deodorize your fridge. Simply place a bowl of baking soda or a small open box on one of the shelves. You can also sprinkle baking soda on top of smelly trash or in your kitty’s litter box. It works great in stinky shoes or sprinkled on smelly dogs too {just sprinkle and brush}!
5. Clean Your Face – Baking soda is also a great alternative to beauty products. I use it on my face about once a week {I find it can be a little drying if I use it more often} for a DIY microderm abrasion. You can also use the same paste and apply it to blemishes. Leave it on over night to help decrease some of the inflammation.
I use it once a week on my face and love it! Another use for it – clean your oven. It’s all I ever use. I just make a paste, let it sit, and then scrub it off. It takes a little more elbow grease than regular oven cleaner but I’d rather use it than all those chemicals in the place my food is cooked.
I am blown away with all the fantastic ways Baking Soda can be used! Thank you so much for putting together this post! To answer your question.. I have not started Spring Cleaning… argh! I keep trying to ignore that it needs to be done! 😉 Have an amazing weekend with your cuties Jenn!
I love baking soda! It can be used for so much! When my 5 year old started having B-O, I had to use something natural. I didn’t want to give her chemicals. So I used baking soda for deodorant for her straight and in a deodorant recipe I have: http://practical-stewardship.com/2012/01/21/3-natural-deodorant-alternative-recipes/ if you are interested. I alternate between both.
What section do you add the baking soda to when doing your wash (for a front loader)?
Thank you for all these great tips!
I’m going to pass them along to my kids as well.
I love the science tip! I haven’t seen that before, and my kids would love it!!
Thanks for sharing at Simply Klassic!
saw you at blue cricket-
great ideas, particularly the one for the dishwasher. i’ll have to clean it now!
Great tips-thanks for sharing!
These are fabulous Jenn!! Featuring this tonight on Facebook! Have a wonderful evening!
Bonnie @ uncommon
Let’s see if I have this right:
Open dishwasher….put in baking soda…close dishwasher…turn it on…whew…I’m tired, it’s not easy doing spring cleaning. Thanks girl!