Articles tagged “Baking Soda”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Prevent Powdery Mildew with Common Kitchen Items By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jul 19 2010 Here are two natural, effective homemade sprays to protect your garden from powdery mildew. + READ MORE

Four Ways to Use Baking Soda in Your Garden By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jun 18 2010 Here are five eco-friendly solutions to common gardening problems, solved by baking soda. + READ MORE

Make Your Own Gluten-Free Baking Powder By Marye Audet IN Food & Health Oct 9 2009 Commercial baking powders often contain additives like aluminum, GMO cornstarch, and gluten. By making your own baking powder you will have a constant supply of fresh product. + READ MORE

Make Deodorant out of Cornstarch and Baking Soda By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 16 2009 We all stink. We're supposed to. Humans attract mates with their pheromones. At some point along the line, society said, "Hey. Stop stinking." And we all fell into line. I'm OK with this. It makes bus rides more pleasant, and it still seems possible to find a mate without creating olfactory offenses. Let's stop questioning the why we use deodorant and look at the way we use it. + READ MORE

Scrub Your Face with Baking Soda By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 2 2009 Baking soda does so many wonderful things. It can freshen the air in our fridge, power a science fair volcano, unclog sinks and clean stains. I sometimes forget that you can bake with the stuff as well. Today, I've stumbled onto a new non-baking use for baking soda, you can clean your face with it. + READ MORE

10 Money-Saving, Eco-Friendly Things You Can Do with Baking Soda By Sophie Uliano IN Home & Garden Feb 18 2009 We all own a box of baking soda and now that we are facing some economically challenging times ahead, it makes sense to take a trip to the dollar store to stock up on a few more boxes of this precious eco-friendly powder. + READ MORE

Learn These 5 Label Reading Tips to Stay Green and Healthy By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Oct 30 2008 Sometimes you just assume that certain items are healthy, or at least not harmful. Like baking soda for example, it's not like I'm going to eat it with a spoon, but I didn't know until recently that it contained aluminum. Maybe you did—but I didn't. + READ MORE

Multitask with Baking Soda By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Sep 5 2007 There's more to baking soda than unclogging drains and fluffing up cakes and muffins. Strange but true: More than 100 tons of the popular refrigerator deodorizer were used to clean the Statue of Liberty's inner copper walls during its 1986 restoration, primarily because of baking soda's ability to attack grease by... + READ MORE