[jason]

Most of us know that baking soda can be used for more than just making homemade cookies and other dough rise. It's not uncommon to see an open box of this leavening agent deodorizing refrigerators, for example. But did you know that there are at least 40 different ways to use baking soda?

Baking soda makes a perfect stand-in for many personal care, cleaning, and deodorizing products. The list of benefits is long: It is inexpensive, free of toxic chemicals, versatile, and effective.

Wondering how baking soda, aka sodium bicarbonate, works its magic? It helps regulate pH — keeping a substance neither too acidic nor too alkaline. When baking soda comes in contact with either an acidic or an alkaline substance, its natural effect is to neutralize that pH. Beyond that, baking soda has the ability to retard further changes in the pH balance, known as buffering.

more 40 fantastic uses for baking soda | Yahoo! Green

[Nomaden]

Wow that's great! Thanks for sharing the link. I never knew before that there are many things we can do with baking soda. You can even use it to help your shampoo wash your hair better.

[ditzyme]

That's a great link, thanks. You can substitute it for most of the uses to which I put white vinegar and as my husband dislikes the smell of the vinegar, I'll use baking soda from now on!