Baking Soda

[Earthy]

If you take one Dixie Cup (or reuseable cup/small bucket) of Baking Soda and one of Apple Cider Vinegar in the shower with you...you will come out refreshed and your shower clean! :)

Just mix 1/2 of the Baking Soda in with your regular shampoo and wash your hair as normal. Rinse with the Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with water.

Using your normal soap (on a rag or hand) use the other 1/2 Baking Soda as a scrub for your face and then on to the rest of your body.

Using a rag wash down the tub/shower.:)

[missinseattle]

very interesting. I love finding things like this.

I use white vinegar and lavender soap mixed with hot water to clean all my hardwood floors.

[ABall]

I've done that to clean out my husbands thermos.

[P.H.]

I like tips like this, too. You can do a lot with vinegar and soda. Once, the water deposits had become scales around our bathroom faucet, and nothing would touch them until I poured vinegar over them and let it set overnight. The next morning I was able to wipe them off. Ever since then, I use it regularly.

[kbabe1968]

Sink & tub drain cleaner:

Pour about 1/2 cup to 1 cup baking soda straight down a drain.

Pour 1 to 2 cups distilled white vinegar down the drain.

Leave sit for about 15 minutes.

Flush with HOT HOT HOT water (boil if you have to).

We had a slow sink drain for a long long time, I did this two days in a row and our drain is no longer slow. :D

Talked to an exterminator, he said this is good to keep the debris from building up in the pipes - which encourages bugs b/c it gives them food. He actually said to keep bugs out of your sink pipes you should do this monthly. :D

[KrisRV]

thanks for the tips ladies, they sound wonderful.

[Ava Rose]

AWESOME tips!!!! Thanks so much!

[Earthy]

Not only is it great as a facial scrub, body soak, hair wash and for cleaning all surfaces.

You can use it on your carpets, sprinkle, then vacume up!

[Earthy]

Personal Care

Hair Brushes
½ C borax
Sink full of water
-Swish hairbrushes in the sudsy water, rinse and let dry

Hair Brushes
1t Baking Soda
Sink full of water
-Swish hairbrushes in water and rinse, let dry

Hair Care
Baking Soda
-Sprinkle palm size amount and shampoo, helps remove residue

Foot Soak
3T Baking Soda
Basin of warm water
-Gently scrub with a paste of Baking soda

Skin Care
Sprinkle Baking Soda into your palm and mix a paste (3 parts Baking Soda to 1 part water) Apply in a circular motion to face then rinse.

Bath Soak
½C Baking Soda into bath water helps wash away oil and perspiration

Head Lice
Saturate head and scalp with Olive Oil, put a shower cap on and wrap in towel for two hours, use a nit comb. You can add Tea Tree Oil or lavender oils. Lice hate oils.

Mayonnaise can also be used this way.

[Ava Rose]

Personal Care

Head Lice
Saturate head and scalp with Olive Oil, put a shower cap on and wrap in towel for two hours, use a nit comb. You can add Tea Tree Oil or lavender oils. Lice hate oils.



I guess that is why my friend said that black people do not get lice. Her dd was in school during a huge lice outbreak and never got it...she is biracial. I had a little girl over my house who I later found out had lice. I was babysitting her. My kids never got it. Which is odd since that little girl and my dd were playing slumber party and shared a pillow while watching a movie. My dd's hair seems more dry than oily though. Who knows.