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5 Surprising Uses For Baking Soda

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Everyone has heard of baking soda, and if you haven’t you probably live under a rock. It’s that fun stuff that helps you make a fake volcano to win the science fair in fourth grade, or stuff you use for baking. Well women use for baking, let’s get serious we’re men, we don’t bake, we go to the store. But being as men don’t generally bake, not every man has baking soda in their home as a bachelor, and you should. Here’s a few common and not so common uses that make this item a must have for every bachelor pad.

Deodorant

Yes, it says it on the box but unless you’re poor or have been to prison you’ve probably never actually used it for this purpose. For those of you that aren’t super familiar with Roosh’s work, he covered this topic of deodorant directly back in 2011. His full post regarding it can be found here, and I give him full credit regarding it as he’s the one who experimented with it not me. But it is good to know in a pinch one always has options.

Tooth Whitener

The United States as of late has been obsessed with tooth color. And while it used to be determined that so long as your mouth wasn’t yellow with foul breath you were good. These days having that perfect Hollywood smile is the expectation. So if your smile isn’t as straight as Tyrese Gibson’s you’re already at a disadvantage. If you’re teeth aren’t as white as his, you’re definitely discounting points. You can go and buy teeth whitening kits, or even go to the dentist to make your teeth whiter; or you could just buy baking soda which is a fraction of the price. It does the same thing, just don’t overdue your home treatments as baking soda is a harsher way to treat your teeth. Recommendations for it are twice a week.

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Mosquito Bite Treatment

Mosquito’s suck plain and simple and eventually you’re going to get bit by them. This is a treatment I learned from my grandmother and use on a quite frequent basis. All you need to do is mix some baking soda with water to make a paste and smear it over your bites. Just let it dry out, the remaining baking soda will wipe right off and your itching will be gone. It doesn’t fully get rid of the bites, but I’ve rarely had itching following the use, and it’s definitely saved me some torment throughout the summer.

Refrigerator Deodorizer

This should be a common fact, but I’m sure there’s one person in the world who doesn’t know, or who has some fancy refrigerator deodorizer and they need to knock it off. Just buy a box of baking soda, put it in the back of your fridge and let it absorb the stank of your horrendous cooking leftovers. You just have to replace it once every so often. Some people have this marked down to days but it really depends how much food odor ends up in your fridge. If you’ve ever used a fridge that hasn’t had baking soda in the back of if (college kids are dumb) you’ll quickly realize how good of a solution this is.

To Extinguish A Fire

At some point one of you on here might start a fire and you might not have a fire extinguisher. Baking soda is once again to the rescue. Just throw a whole boat load on it and boom, fire be gone. You could also get fancy like this fat kid in the video below and make your own fire extinguisher (but who really has time for that). By the way I only put the video because the kid is fat, and fat people make me laugh.

So there you have it, five uses for baking soda. So go buy a bunch. Do it now!

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31 thoughts on “5 Surprising Uses For Baking Soda”

  1. Can the next article please be about cupcake toppings? e.g. which ones the womens like the most. Thanks.

  2. If you get some chafing or a rash when using baking soda, use a little corn starch to help with the pits. I’ve been doing this for awhile now, also using one of the other authors “no-shampoo” challenge to success, albeit my hair is only an inch in length.

  3. This again?
    “Baking soda” seems to have as much street cred as anything regarding “Tesla”.
    I tole you guys last time that a teaspoon of baking soda straight up in water will increase prostate comfort, as a high urine pH bathes your genito-urinary track in a soothing alkaline fluid.
    Lest you think I am lying, test your urine and prostatic fluid with a pH strip. Typically in the morning your urine will be acidic, whereas the prostatic fluid is highly alkaline. You want to drive your urine into neutral or alkaline regions. The less acidic your diet the better for your health. Green tea helps with this also.
    Baking soda is also good for neutralizing battery acid. Surprised you did not mention this important fact.

  4. As I stated in another post, I’ve actually found baking soda to be superior to commerical deoderant/anti-perspirant; both in it’s scent-killing ability, and the fact that it doesn’t stick to your skin during the shower the next day, or ruin black shirts over time.

  5. Next comes the article for a thousand and one uses for duck tape.
    My personal favorite is how to tie up a hotty and have my way with her before dumping the bod……No wait what? Momentary lapse of..nevermind.

    2. Yes … please continue… I feel like this could get quite interesting

    3. WOW, my wife and I just tried it! And you were so right!
      She up and dissappeared (did not even have to O), and a million dollars showed up at my door. My kid has not dissappeared though, and CPS and the police cleared me of the investigation! All in the space of 2 hours!
      WOW, I will always have sex with BS now!
      You all should try it!

  7. Good article. Baking soda has tons of uses. Mix some with water to clean your battery leads of your car. Also an excellent very effective exfoliant for your skin in the shower, then wash again with soap. If you have a sore throat gargle with it. Yeah we’re just a bunch of fuckin’ Martha Stewarts…

  8. You can also use it to cut cocaine and make a bigger profit, as well as use it as a shampoo. Pretty good to clean up your head and scalp

    2. Can’t believe I forgot that! It truly helps with financial situations when you can double your profit.

  9. My closet has a large chimney that runs behind it. Over the course of the winter my clothes always used to get a smoky smell to them.
    This year I started putting baking soda into the closet and, lo and behold, the smell was completely nullified.

  13. Interesting. Can’t deny these are useful tips. But technically, I think “the best kitchen item ever” has a vagina. And probably speaks Russian or Polish.

  14. next article: “5 reasons why you should be drinking water daily”. come on dude this place has become hit or miss.

  15. next article: “5 reasons why you should be drinking water daily”. come on dude this place has become hit or miss.

  16. next article: “5 reasons why you should be drinking water daily”. come on dude this place has become hit or miss.

    1. Have you checked into CNN ever? They’re so un-original over there that they just change the article titles several times to pretend they wrote something new. Unless RoK starts doing that I think it’s fine. You’re not going to read everything as revolutionary in life man.

  19. Its good as an absorbent to clean up stains on carpet. Red wine spill- Salt first then Baking Soda on Top. Let dry for 2-3 hours then vaccum up.

  20. I would say this is pretty decent advice. Maybe not the most life altering advice, but good to know for general life situations. People tend to over look the small details these days.

  21. its also great for heartburn… just mix with water, and you get immediate relief.

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