Baking Soda: Over 500 Fabulous, Fun, and Frugal Uses You've Probably Never Thought Of (Lansky, Vicki)

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• ISBN13: 9780916773410
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Baking soda gets its due in this fun collection gathered by Vicki Lansky and her readers over more than twenty years. From making an omelette extra fluffy or deodorizing those musty household smells, to improving flossing and mouth freshness or washing clay flower pots without leaving residue, the book offers hundreds of tips for making the most of this environmentally friendly and inexpensive product.
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Baking Soda
This is a super informative little book that every household should own. Never knew there were that many uses for Baking Soda.
Book arrived in excellent (as new) condition and within schedule.
Would not hesitate to buy again from same buyer.

great ideas.
excellent ideas. never imagined all baking soda could do and be harmless to you and pets.
There should be one of these books in every home.

Love this book!!
I absolutely love this book. It has helped me to turn my home into a clean, toxin free, child friendly place! I have been happy with everything I've attempted so far!

Another must-have book!
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. Baking soda is natural, inexpensive, and so easy to use. "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. 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. 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. Rinse and let dry.

Make the dirtiest windows sparkle by washing them with a wet sponge sprinkled with baking soda. Rinse with a clean sponge and dry.

Leave 1 cup ammonia in a cold, closed oven overnight. In the morning remove the ammonia, sprinkle the oven with baking soda and wipe down with damp paper towels. 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. Wipe them clean with a damp paper towel found right there at the pump. No more smelly gas on your hands!

There, I've listed ten fabulous, fun, and frugal uses of baking soda. 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? It is also manufactured in one natural factory--your body! It keeps our saliva from dissolving our teeth and neutralizes stomach acids. It also carries carbon dioxide from body tissues to the lungs where it is exhaled. An amazing thing is baking soda.

Over 475 uses you'll probably NEVER use....
This is a rather curious little book of uses for baking soda. 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. After having read it all the way through, I was surprised to see that some readers had rated it so high. The main problem is, most of the ideas that I or an average person may use are already common knowledge. While some are nifty, there are some far out and lesser know uses that appear very tedious and down right dangerous. For example there is one use that describes mixing baking soda with straight bleach of all things. I don't like mixing anything with bleach and would never do this. There is also a recipe for tooth whitener that involves mixing baking soda with lemon juice. Most people know that pure lemon juice can be harmful to tooth enamel and I would never do that either. 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. Don't get your hopes up with this book.

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