The Wonders of Baking Soda

Baking soda is great.

It's really good if you get a lot of buildup in your hair from styling products, or chlorine in swimming pools..Or hard water. You just mix about 1/4 cup of baking soda in a big container of warm water, and pour it on your hair. Let it sit for a few minutes, then rinse it out. Then wash it normally with shampoo and condition. It gets all the junk out. :)

It's also good for softening bath water if your skin is itchy.

Oh my goodness... Baking soda takes care of athletes foot better than anything else!

My husband was sunburnt badly last week, and a baking soda paste made it less painful..

It cleans out a coffee pot..

And don't forget how it makes your fridge smell!

With Baking Soda and Water you can clean a 12v Car Battery. It neutralizes the acid.

I am just starting to notice all the uses. Plenty here that I would not have thought of.

How can you cook with this stuff and use it as a cleaner?

Speaking of car batteries, you can use Coca Cola to clean corrosion off a car battery...Learned that in Driver's Ed class....I also heard you can dissolve a penny in coke.

Makes you wonder what it does to your stomach...:-P~ But it's yummy.

It's scary to think you can cook with something that cleans!

This has NOTHING to do with the subject, but here's something a little bit gross...When I was first in college, I worked at Mcdonald's. We did a little test one day..We took a fresh big mac and let it sit in the bin for 20 minutes. When we opened the box, all the lettuce had disintigrated, like it was never even there. Always special order your big macs!

Jess, they tried various things with coke on the Myth busters. I don't think it worked very well. I think it cleaned the penny though.

Fins--All food from McDonalds is scary...lol I worked there in High school..I still have trouble eating there. Just the smell makes me nauseous. I do enjoy the breakfast though...Those Mcgriddles are good...lol

My hubby is a hunter and uses baking soda to wash his hunting clothes in. Seems it gets rid of all smells so he can sneak up on the deer,though,thank goodness it hasn't worked real well for him-Poor Bambi :cry: ...Karen

Oh gosh..I love Mcgriddles!! I have a thing for sausage with syrup, so I pour some syrup on there..REALLY sloppy, but soooo good!

MMMMMmmm...McGriddles are my downfall!

Anyone ever use Mule Team Borax?
That stuff is fabulous! If you have pets, sprinkle it on your carpets and let sit for an hour or so, then vacuum. It deodorizes and kills fleas!

I use baking soda to make my frig smell decent--and Mickey D's? Worked there too! I can still remember going into combat positions whenever a bus pulled in...BAD memories!!!

Oh my...The bus memories are ones I'd prefer to forget! A bus pulling in equalled nothing less than hysteria

I once tried putting baking soda into fruit juice to turn it into fruit soda. It worked only on grape juice, making it fizzy, didn't taste exactly the same though.

Wow. Did it taste bad?

I don't think baking soda tastes nasty, exactly...It has a slight resemblance to confectioner's sugar. Hmmm...Making fruit soda isn't anything I'd ever thought of. Definite points for originality, Ari! That's why you are a brilliant editor-in-chief!

LOL Fins!
Whenever we saw a bus, it was like the manager yelled "bus!!" just like you would yell "fire!' or "General Quarters!"

Oh god....

McDonalds memories..

When I worked there, I worked in London, Ohio...London has 2 locations...A normal location, then one referred to as the "Truck Stop" McDonalds because it was right off the freeway and across the street from the truck stop. We were ALWAYS busy.

We had busses constantly. I remember being in drive through and having to run up to the fry cooker and throw fries in while trying to take orders....You'd hear someone yell "BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS!" and we'd all flip out like "OH Sh** Here we go" There were times we would actually shut drive through down just to deal with the traffic in the dining room. One time we had so many people call in sick that there was three of us working in the store and had to deal with a dining room full of people backed up to the walls from a soccer tournament.

I don't miss that job at all.

Reminds me of one of my first jobs, cleaning and setting tables at a popular Italian restaurant. One time, this girl who was supposed to be taking care of the right side of the dining room didn't show up, so I had to take care of the entire dining room plus the bar on a very busy Staurday night. It took three cups of black coffee to keep up with the traffic!

LOL!!!
I worked Drive-Thru at my McD's!!!!! What I hated were the people who thought you were deaf and would scream their orders into the mike. My 18-year-old self wanted soooo bad to say "I heard you, a**ho**!! Maybe they thought Mickey D's hired the mentally handicapped, I don't know!!
The kicker for me was when some jerk stood up in the dining room and yelled "FOOD FIGHT!!!" and you can guess what happened. (It was right when the movie Animal House was popular...) The worst part was after that, the boss looked at me and said "do the lobby!!

I mainly did drive through..

I liked the people that would specify their drive through order was "To go". Or the "I want a cheeseburger with no cheese" people...."So you want a Hamburger?" "I SAID A CHEESEBURGER WITH NO CHEESE!" Or when someone would come up in one of those monster trucks with the loud engine, and then wonder why I can't hear them. Or the people who would order a Whopper...And then get huffy because McDonalds does not HAVE whoppers, that would be Burger King.

I was also the resident "Birthday Party" person...Basically I would do nothing all day...I'd spend 2 hours decorating, 2 hours throwing a party which consisted of playing games and eating ice cream. Then I'd spend 2 hours cleaning up after. Good times.

What a nightmare! After those clowns had their food fight, it goes to show who really is mentally handicapped!

Ever see that movie "Jerky Boys". There is this scene where the Jerky Boys are operating a drive-through window at some burger joint with one of those clown microphones that move when the person behind them talks. They were talking dirty into the clown, it was hilarious!

This is too funny!
I have to rent Jerky Boys, sounds like one I can relate to!
And ordering a cheeseburger with no cheese...hoookay!! Takes all kinds :) I liked the ones who ordered frosties (that's Wendy's)

I never had anyone order a frosty...That would have been hilarious. Wendy's was next door.

Oh you guys are bringing back all my bad memories of working at McDonald's in high school also!! We did have fun but it was awful now that I think about it.

I did drive thru also, and I got to be a shift leader! LOL...

My favorite memory was a guy who had his burger made wrong. He came back into the grill area to make it himself! That was a hoot! We also used to write bad words in hot cake batter on the grill.

You know, a few months ago I was sitting in line at Mcdonalds drive thru, and a bus pulled up. The person working inside the first window was moving really slooooooooooow, and she was really making me mad. So I leaned over and knocked on the window. When she opened it I saw "OMYGOD!!! You have a freakin' bus!" She closed the window and I got to hear her scream "buuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssssssss!" Oh the memories! If your shift was ending when the bus came, you weren't going anyplace!

I was a trainer. Basically that meant I got to wear tan pants instead of the black ones.

yep, my shift leader title meant that I got to wear blue and white stripes instead of red and white. I was important!

I never got that far, lol, sniff. Moi was just a lowly crewmember--who used to go to Wendy's in her fetching (not) Mickey D's uniform!! Great advertisement!!!!

We would do that too. We had Wendy's next door, and Popeye's chicken across the street. We'd trade food with them.

And speaking of the lovely uniform, it used to always smell like grease and other undesirable elements at the end of a shift!!!!!

And did you guys notice that you would still smell like McDonalds even after you went home, took a shower, and changed your clothes? It was disgusting.

One of my earlier jobs clearing and setting tables at an Italian restaurant included dishwashing. On my first night, after I was done I couldn't stand to have my hands anywhere near my face because the smelled of a nasty combination of dishwater and Italian food. I absolutely HATE the smell of dishwater, it is one of the most rancid smells next to stale cigarette smoke, butt-wind, and wet dog.

And when my husband used to come home from his submarine, that lovely sub smell was a combination of all three--including the BO of 110 guys!!!!!

What did he have to bathe in to get all of that off? Baking soda?

Ugh!! The worst smell in the world is at my job...Sometimes I get stuck on an elevator full of maintenance guys. They've been working out in the 110 degree plant, and most of them don't bathe as often as they should. Someone told them that they're sexy or something, because they love to lean over and talk to me with their rancid cigarette-coffee-dry mouth-unbrushed teeth breath. Combine that with unwashed body, welding smoke, and sweat...You've got a winner.

I'm glad that at least that stench doesn't destroy your brain cells. You never know though, you might want to pull your shirt collar over your nose as a protective mask. If they get offended, who really gives a rat's hat.

I think it might turn these animals on if I pulled my shirt up at all!

I swear, some guys are not human at all!

Especially the cretins I work with.

They must have been extras in the movie "Deliverance".

OOOHHHH! I can hear the pig squeal now! Gosh that was one GROSS movie.

A gross movie about gross people who really exist and are oblivious to the fact that they are physically and mentally repellent!

We could film a sequel at my work..No scripts needed, probably just set up a camera in the men's locker room. Bring in some barnyard animals...

The grossest submarine story I can think of was when the sanitation tanks on hubby's sub blew and he was up all night with his guys in port fixing them--THEN they said they needed a guy to crawl through them!!
As they looked at hubby, who's small, he looked at his guys and said "18 years in the Navy and I'm pulling rank for the first time!!--No WAY am I doing that!!
Even so, his uniforms smelled like what's in the sani tanks after that and ALL got thrown out....

oh SICK!!!!! LMAO!!!

I certainly hope he was given hazard pay! That could really cause some serious skin problems!

Speaking of BO.

Has anyone ever thought about what it was like 100 years ago and before? You know when they used to bath once a month.

How did they exist? They had to smell it.

Whenever I see an old Western or anything historical this is the kind of things I sometimes think about.

This is true!!!!!! And remember, since there were no cars on the street and everyone got around with horses, dealing with what they left in the streets....ewwww

Remember why it is tradition for brides and bridesmaides to carry flowers. For special occasions such as weddings, in those days, all the available bathwater was made available for the men first. My gosh, how the tables have turned!

LOL..I was a "Little House" freak when I was a kid. Laura was my idol, I used to pretend to be her, it drove my mom crazy that all I wanted to eat was bread and butter, just like Laura.

But..even as a kid I saw how gross it was that they bathed every saturday night...Pa first, then Ma, then Mary, then Laura..In the cold scummy water that everyone else peed in.