Every housewife has a pack of baking soda in her kitchen, which she uses for cooking and washing dishes.
But few people know that baking soda can be an indispensable assistant in many matters, and it costs mere pennies, so it is worth learning as much as possible about its capabilities.
Today, store shelves are bursting with various household chemicals that promise to help women achieve perfect cleanliness in their homes. But in our grandmothers’ times, there was no such abundance, but they managed to achieve this perfect cleanliness using the simplest and cheapest means.
Surely, we should get to know their secrets and apply them, because it is very simple and, most importantly, does not require large expenses.
Let's refresh the inside of the closet
The air always gets stuffy in a closed room. Sometimes, looking into an overcrowded closet, we catch ourselves thinking that we should sort out things and refresh the inside, but, as always, there is not enough time.
Therefore, you can simply freshen the air, then things will not smell musty. It is worth rummaging in the first aid kit, there are probably several packs of activated carbon with an expired expiration date.
You can put all the tablets on a plate, put the plate on the bottom shelf of the cupboard. The gol will easily absorb the unpleasant smell and the air will become fresh.
If there is no coal, then baking soda will easily cope with this task. Put a couple of spoons of soda on a saucer and also put it in the cupboard.
If, in addition to clean air, you want to get a bright aroma, you can use pieces of toilet soap, after removing the wrapper and placing them on different shelves among the linen.
If you have any special preferences regarding scents, you can buy essential oil at the pharmacy and apply a few drops to a sponge, and also place it in the corners of the closet.
You can stock up on fragrant herbs in the summer and dry them in the shade. For example, chamomile, lemon balm, rosemary, rosehip and rose petals, peppermint and lemongrass. Sew small bags from natural fabric, linen, cotton, satin or chintz will do, and put a handful of herbs in there.
By the way, with the help of soda you can eliminate unpleasant smells in the refrigerator, in the trash can and even in the cat litter box. And if there are traces of urine on the carpet or on the sofa, you can clean them with water and soda.
The carpet can be sprayed with water with soda dissolved in it, and then cleaned with a vacuum cleaner. The same can be done with the sofa.
Soda instead of household chemicals
All housewives know that soda is excellent for cleaning dirty dishes, but you can also use soda to clean crystal. If you dilute a couple of spoons of baking soda in warm water, the crystal will not only become clean, but will shine in the rays of light.
Baking soda is excellent for cleaning silverware, cupronickel and British silver.
These cutlery become dark and dingy over time, but if you rub them with a damp cloth and baking soda, then rinse them in cold water and dry them thoroughly, they will become clean and new again.
A paste of soda is excellent for washing away grease, soot and carbon deposits in the oven, and if you add a couple of spoons to your washing powder, your whites will become much cleaner.
If mold has appeared in the apartment, then it is worth doing wet cleaning with soda, this will not only help get rid of the unpleasant coating, but also eliminate the musty smell.
And if you are leaving for a while and leaving the apartment locked, then place saucers with soda in different corners of the house, then when you arrive you will not feel any unpleasant musty smell.
As you can see, the sorceress soda works wonders and is an irreplaceable assistant in household chores.
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