Baking Soda

Uses for Baking Soda: Health and Beauty
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Baking soda was one of the few products many years ago on the market for cleaning your teeth or settling an upset stomach. While we have many more choices today, baking soda still does the trick for these and dozens of other health and beauty tasks. Try it for shaving and shampooing, for minor burns and cuts, or for relaxation in the bath. In this article, you will see that baking soda can be a key ingredient in your health and beauty routine. Let's start at the top with your hair. ---CONTINUED---

Sixty-One Uses For Baking Soda
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Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate is a crystalline, naturally occurring substance, commonly found dissolved in mineral springs. It can also be formed artificially. Baking soda's primary use in the kitchen is as a leavening agent, making dough rise.

But...baking soda has many other uses outside the kitchen as well! We share sixty-one uses below. ---CONTINUED---

Here's how to test if your baking soda is still good:

Putting the Foods You Love Into Food Storage
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Baking soda: These are some of the items you don’t need to can or vacuum seal. Keep them in their original containers or you can place them in buckets with lids. Baking powder test: 1 tsp in 1/3 c hot water = water fizzes.

Baking Soda: From Alan's Stuff: Prudent Food Storage
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This gritty powder is sodium bicarbonate also known as sodium acid bicarbonate (NaHCO3), a mild alkali. When combined with an acid ingredient such as buttermilk it is used in baking to leaven quick breads and other baked foods working in the same manner as baking powder. It can also be used to make hominy. When combined with an acid ingredient, the bicarbonate reacts to give off carbon dioxide bubbles which causes the baked good to rise. If kept well sealed in an air- and moisture-proof container its storage life is indefinite. If kept in the cardboard box it usually comes in, it will keep for about eighteen months. Do keep in mind that baking soda is a wonderful odor adsorber. If you don't want your baked goods tasting of whatever smells it adsorbed then keeping it in an airtight container is a good idea.

Baking Soda – 112 Uses (WWII Series)
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If you’re like me, you probably already have a box of baking soda in your pantry for baking, one in your refrigerator to absorb odors and another under your kitchen sink to use for cleaning.
What Exactly Is Baking Soda?

sodaIt’s 100 percent sodium bicarbonate, which can be used as a leavening agent in baked goods. When mixed with an acid, baking soda reacts, making bubbles and giving off carbon dioxide gas, which causes dough to rise. Anecdotal reports throughout history suggest that many civilizations used forms of baking soda when making bread and other foods that required rising.

In its natural form, baking soda is known as ... ---CONTINUED---

Baking Soda for Preppers
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Bicarbonate of soda (or sodium bicarbonate), better known as baking soda, is a pantry staple that's an often overlooked component of preparedness. Baking soda goes well beyond its use as a leavening product for baking no yeast breads.

Why do preppers hoard baking soda? Baking soda has a multitude of uses, but we've narrowed the list to uses most appreciated by preppers... ---CONTINUED---

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The Best Uses for Baking Soda
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  Baking soda is amazing! This versatile substance can be used to remove stains, keep your sneakers smelling fresh, and even get rid of your sweet tooth. Here are some of the best uses for baking soda.   ---CONTINUED---

17 of the Most Brilliant Ways to Fix Things with Baking Soda
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  Baking soda is one of the most versatile home remedies in your pantry. Here’s how to use baking soda to clean your home, improve your health, and more. ---CONTINUED---

What’s The Difference Between Baking Soda And Baking Powder?
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  Every pantry has some baking soda and baking powder on hand. While we all have baking soda and baking powder in our homes, there are not many of us who can actually tell you the difference between the two of them. This is understandable. For many of us, they are considered to be interchangeable, but they’re not. Since we are using them in our daily baking, it is time to learn more about the nuances.   ---CONTINUED---

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50 Survival Uses for Baking Soda
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  Baking soda might seem like it is just a humble baking ingredient, but this inexpensive item has plenty of survival uses, as well.

(SNIP) ... The long shelf life of baking soda, its low price point, and variety of uses makes it a great item to stock up on for survival purposes. But what exactly can you use it for? Keep reading for 50 survival uses for baking soda.  ---CONTINUED---