Are you tired of the bad odours in your kitchen and have emptied air fresheners cans but still can’t get rid of it? Well, now you need not to worry because today I am going to reveal you the centuries’ old traditional home remedy for this problem. Baking soda or sodium bicarbonate that we often use in our kitchen is the best source to kill bad odour and remove stains. Not only should it be a kitchen item but also a bathroom, nursery and vanity box must have. Are you now wondering how to use baking soda to clean your house from tough stains and bad smells? Well, here we have listed down the multiple uses for sodium bicarbonate.

In the Kitchen:

1-To Remove Tough Stains from the pots:

Many people have used baking soda for cleaning kitchen pots and cutlery. Just sprinkle it on a damp cloth and scrub the casserole to remove the tough baking stain from your casserole.

2-To Put Out Small Fires:

Dash a handful of baking soda to put out small fires but do not use it on deep fryer fire.

3-To Scrub off Stains from Kitchen Surface:

Dab a scrubber or cleaning rag on sodium bicarbonate and clean your kitchen counter, cabinets, sinks and taps for stain-free and shiny result.

4-To Clean Dishwasher:

Sprinkle handfuls of sodium bicarbonate on your dishwasher and fill it with the vinegar then run the dishwasher to remove bad odour.

5-For a Cleaned and Fresh-smelling Oven:

Cleaning oven with baking soda is easy. Dissolve 1 cup of it in water and spread it. Leave it for few hours and then clean it with a wet towel or scourer to clean. To make it smell fresh, just put orange or lemon peels and bake it for 5 minutes at 180 C.

6-For a Stink-free Refrigerator:

Keep a box of baking soda in the refrigerator to absorb the smell of food and other items.

In The Bathroom

7-To Make the Sink Drain Smell Good:

Pour approximately 2-3 tablespoons of sodium bicarbonate in the drain and run warm water for few minutes or drain some white vinegar.

8-To clean soap and water residue from bathtub:

Mix 1½ cup of baking soda in ½ cup of each natural liquid soap and water. Also, add 2 tablespoons of white vinegar in the mixture and drain it on a damp cloth to scrub of the bathtubs and sinks.

9-To Sparkle Tiles:

Sprinkle baking soda on a sponge and pour some vinegar to rub the tiles. Then dash some baking soda on a toothbrush to scrub the floor and then wash with water.

10-To Clean Toilets:

Sprinkle baking soda in the bowl and drip some liquid soap on the toilet brush to scrub the bowl and then flush.

11-Using it as a Fabric Freshener, Fabric Softener, and Brightener

Pour ½ cup of baking soda with few drops of essential oils during rinse cycle to freshen up your clothes, linens and bedding.  With just ½ a cup of sodium bicarbonate, you can make your fabric baby soft and to brighten the white clothes just dip them in a bucket of warm water and ½ cup baking soda.

For Health aid and Beauty

12-To Alkalize Body and Antacid:

Add a pinch of baking soda and sea salt in water and drink it every morning. For heartburn and indigestion, just dissolve 1 teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of water and gulp it down

13-To Make Face and Body Scrub:

Dissolve ample of sodium bicarbonate in filtered water or almond oil and drip it in your bathtub water to exfoliate your skin. Also, dab it on your pimple to cast off redness and itchiness.

14-To Treat Burns and Insect Bites:

Make a paste of baking soda and water and apply it on the affected area to soothe burns and stings. Sodium bicarbonate uses its anti-septic power to effectively kill jellyfish and honeybee stings.

For Personal Use:

15-To Deodorize:

-Use a paste of lemon juice and baking soda to deodorize hands after cooking

Other

-Baking soda carpet cleaner is an instant to stubborn stains and bad odour. Just generously sprinkle it over you carpet and leave it overnight. Vacuum it next for a cleaner, sweet smelling carpet

-Sprinkle some baking soda in ashtray and leave it for few minutes. Wipe it for a stink-free ashtray

-Dab some in your shoes or bags and shake it off to get rid of the smell

It is not strange that you end up wasting lots of eatables, just because you could not consume them. According to the website Culinate.com, almost 25 percent of our total bought food goes dump. In short, you waste around 25 percent of your total money when grocery is bought. Do not worry; this is painful, but you can easily cope up with it. Who said you could not use the same food for other purposes? If not cooking, you can clean your house with it.

Why to clean your house leftovers?

Well, food would act as natural cleaning solution, and produces best results too. For example, you may use them in cleaning mirror, floors, doors and even toilets. Using food as cleansers never means that you take a lemon start doing that, but you have to make cleaner out of it. It is safe, and cost effective. We fail to comprehend the nature, and that is why we do not even know what foods have what kind of magical properties.

You must be thinking how to clean a house with eatables? This is most enticing questions for all. A few tips for cleaning house that can make your life easier include:

1: Lemon:

For many who do not know, Citrus fruits have various antiseptic and anti-bacterial properties, due to which they are capable of cleaning strongest germs. First of all, lemons can easily remove the strains formed by the droplets of tea, mustard, coffee, and grass. Lemons have bleaching properties too, as they have some sort of acidity.

If you do not have sufficient lemon juice, you can even use the peels to make an effective cleanser.

2: Baking Soda:

Since ages, baking soda, which is a bicarbonate of soda, is considered as effective source that combats various bad odors and stains. Due to its abrasive nature, it takes of the grim and dirt without leaving any side effects.

It is the best way to clean your house, if you have pets around. For example, you can sprinkle baking soda on the pet’s urine and get rid of the smell easily.

In case you want to clean your refrigerator from the odor, place baking soda in an open container, and replace after every month.

3: Vinegar:

Since the time of ancient Egypt, Vinegar has been used to kill the germs and bacteria’s, due to its acidic nature. You can use vinegar mixed in water to form a solution that would help you in cleaning.

4: Salt:

Salt, in its solid form is important to use as an abrasive item. You can use it for scrubbing jobs, and clean a lot of pans in your kitchen. However, when mixed with water, it becomes saline and helps in cleaning the stains of proteins. It will clean the blood droplets from the clothes or any stain from the carpet.

5: Herbs:

Herbs have very strong culinary and medicinal properties. They’ve anti-viral, anti bacterial and anti-fungal elements – therefore, they act as the best cleaning agents for home.  You can use the herb oil or some other paste for this reason.

6: Grapefruit

Tired of using all the expensive cleaning agents to remove stains and odor from the oven? You can use the paste of the grapefruit and scrub in the areas where there is a grim or dried stain. Grapefruit, when mixed with salt works abrasively and cleans all the dirt easily. It is one of the natural ways to clean the oven and that even it simpler way.

7: Potato Peels:

If you want to know the magic, how to clean your house fast from rust, here is the recipe – use potatoes. You need a peeled off potato, dip it into any dish soap or baking soda, and scrub the rusted area. Keep on rubbing until the rusted area is cleaned completely.

8: Onion:

If you have icky windows, you can get rid of them through onions, as it works better than most commercial cleaning products.

9: Tea
You can shine your wooden items with the use of the tea. Rub the cloth dipped in the cooled tea, and make your furniture shine.

10: Oranges Peels:

They too work like lemons, as they belong to the same family. They are known as all-purpose cleaners and act as wonderful laundry solution too. You can use the peels to extract the oil, which would help you a lot in getting the cleaning job done.

11: Banana Peels:

If you wish to keep your silverware shiny and wonderful always, make sure you use banana peel over them. You can use the peels to form a paste and then use it for cleaning.

12: Green Tea:

Green tea can do miracles you know; if you want to keep the refrigerator environment fresh and healthy, place some green tea leaves inside it. It will help in removing the pungent odor easily.