DIY Cleaning Hacks for Baking Soda

It's DIY time, everybody. I'm sure you're here because you want to learn all the cleaning hacks using baking soda to clean different spots in your home. 

Whenever it comes to a cleaner that's natural that gets rid of grime and grease, you should make use of baking soda. So here are some DIY cleaning hacks for baking soda.

List of Cleaning Hacks for Baking Soda 

Use Baking Soda to Unclog Slow Drains

Before you use household chemicals to clean drains that aren't moving quickly, try vinegar and baking soda? To do this, you should pour a cup of baking soda on the slow drain. Heat your vinegar and then pour everything on the baking soda. After around ten minutes, flush your entire pot using boiling water. Don't try this technique on fully clogged drains, though.

Use Baking Soda as an Oven Scrub 

You could make use of baking soda to clean filthy ovens. These ovens could have horrible odors, which could have chemicals that might end up being corrosive. You could get some salt paste and baking soda and mix with some vinegar and water. Then spread your paste all over the walls, floor, and the door of your oven using a brush. 

You need to wear some gloves. It would be best if you allowed the mixture to sit appropriately for a day. Keep everything moist using vinegar or water over time. Your paste would reduce the oven parts that have burnt food and help you scrub things easier. 

You could wipe your paste away using a cloth or sponge. Then turn your oven to about 100 degrees Fahrenheit. You should keep everything on for about an hour to reduce any residue that decides to linger. You should turn your oven off, and when it is cool again, spray all stubborn dirty areas using your mixture and wipe everything clean.

Use Baking Soda to Clean Ceramic Stovetop. 

There is food residue that gathers at the top of the stove. You could use baking soda and a paste of warm water to clean your ceramic stovetop. Spoon your mixture and put it on the dirty surface. This would help you reduce the strength of the dirty residue. Allow it all to sit for 20 minutes. Scrub it and get rid of the dirty gunk. After scrubbing, you could spray glass cleaners and then wipe everything dry after you’re done. 

Use Baking Soda to Clean Stainless Steel

No one enjoys making use of dirty stainless-steel products. They are not attractive or beautiful to the eye. They end up looking dull too. You could spray some baking soda and bring your stainless-steel back to the land of the living. 

What DIY cleaning hacks for baking soda will you use?

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The Healing Power of Flower Essences

There has been scientific research on the healing power of flower essences. This research explains these potential benefits of flowers, and they include the following.

Potential Healing Powers of Flower Essences

Flower essences are used for anxiety.

Flower essences such as lavender and eucalyptus essential oils have several benefits for people that suffer from anxiety. Some studies have shown that flower essence therapy (or aromatherapy) may help reduce anxiety for adults and kids.

Flower essences are used for pain.

Various studies report that flower essence therapy (when used topically) helps to ease pain, such as the minor chronic pain found in people that suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. These participants applied flower essence cream (or diluted essential oil drops into a carrier oil such as jojoba oil) onto external parts of their body suffering from this pain and ended up feeling better. (Note: Keep oil away from the eyes and open wounds.)

From this study, these essences could have properties biologically that aid in making that part of the body feel better. However, further research is needed.

Possible Side Effects and Risks

Because flower essences are solutions that are diluted, they are relatively safe when used properly. Just like every type of remedy, these essences could still have unwanted side effects.

List of Possible Side Effects

Practitioners say that these could cause:

1. Headache

2. Skin rashes

3. Fatigue

Different practitioners state that these are pretty safe, but you should be careful, especially when you are breastfeeding or pregnant. Always check in with your doctor or medical health care professional before using flower essences to reduce anxiety, pain, or stress.

So, there we have it, flower essences may have a lot of healing powers and may have some disadvantages too.

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