Baking Soda Miracles: Revolutionary Cleaning Hacks for Every Household

Check out this helpful video from Sheets Laundry Club on baking soda hacks for cleaning. We’ve put together a list of multiple ways you can use a baking soda cleaning solution for different items around your home.

Why Baking Soda?

Baking soda has a naturally abrasive quality that makes it effective at getting rid of stains and spots — even stubborn ones. It’s also great at neutralizing odors. Baking soda is a base or alkaline compound that can counteract the smelly odors you get from acidic substances.

How to Use It Safely

Using hacks with baking soda comes with a couple of precautions. Since it’s abrasive, avoid using it on surfaces that might get scratched up, such as:

• Glass
• Finished wood
• Aluminum
• Marble or natural stone
• Electronics

Mixing water with baking soda usually does the trick for cleaning. But other substances can reduce its effectiveness or even be toxic when you mix them with baking soda. Avoid combining it with these:

• Ammonia
• Alcohol
• Cleaning agents and chemical-based cleaners
• Chlorine bleach
• Hydrogen peroxide

So, how can you use a baking soda cleaning solution around your house? Try out the following cleaning hacks for odors, stains, and more!

Freshen Your Carpeting

Is your carpet smelling stale? Or does it have pet odors? Air fresheners only do so much to help this. To really neutralize these smells, you’ll need something stronger. Baking soda can help!

Before you haul out the vacuum to clean your carpets, do the following:

• Mix baking soda and water
• Sprinkle onto your carpet
• Let it sit for 15 minutes to absorb odors
• Vacuum it up

You can do this as often as needed. If you have pets, for example, you might want to use this cleaning hack regularly to keep pet odors in carpeting at bay.

Remove Laundry Odors

Trying to eliminate sweaty odors from clothing? Or maybe you have dog blankets that don’t seem to come out of the dryer smelling fresh? Doing laundry is supposed to help get rid of odors from clothes and other items. But sometimes, certain smells can linger.

For these tough odors, turn to baking soda. You don’t need to combine it with water in this case, since you’ll be putting it in your washing machine.

The next time you want to remove smells from laundry and freshen it up, just add a cup of baking soda to your normal load. Wash and dry it as you usually would. When you pull your laundry out, it should be odor-free.

Remove Coffee and Tea Stains

Are you a regular coffee or tea drinker? Then you know how unsightly stains from these hot beverages can set in on mug and teapot surfaces. You might have a ring on the inside of coffee mugs. Or your teapot might have stubborn tea stains.

There’s no need to replace these items, even if they’ve been stained for a while. Let baking soda give you some help.

Here’s what to do to eliminate these stains and get your mugs and teapot looking like new again:

• Make a baking soda cleaning solution with water to form a paste
• Give the stained areas a good scrub
• Rinse them off for stain-free surfaces

Clean Grout

Is the grout in your kitchen or bathroom looking grubby? These surfaces easily become discolored and dirty from grime that builds up over time.

You might have tried scrubbing your grout with cleaning products that just don’t work. Or maybe you’re looking for something that’s safer to use in a home with little kids and pets wandering around.

You can depend on a baking soda cleaning solution to get your grout looking nice and clean again, making your tile floors look better than ever.

To use baking soda for cleaning grout, do the following:

• Mix water and baking soda to form a thick paste
• Apply this solution to dirty grout surfaces
• Wait 30 minutes to an hour
• Scrub the grout clean
• Rinse off these surfaces

Smother Small Grease Fires

Cooking with oil? This can lead to grease fires in your kitchen if you’re not careful. When vegetable oils or other cooking oils heat up too much, this causes grease fires.

Keep in mind that baking soda is only good for small fires. Don’t try to put out larger ones with a sprinkle of baking soda — it won’t work. Even with a smaller fire, you’ll need to use a lot of it.

If a small grease fire breaks out in your kitchen, do this:

• Turn off the heat first
• Cover the pan or pot with a metal lid
• Pour baking soda on to smother the fire
• Let the pot or pan cool before you move it, so you don’t burn yourself

Remove Grease from Pots and Pans

Do your pots and pans have caked-on grease that just won’t come off? Maybe you’ve scrubbed and scrubbed them with no luck?

Some grease stains can build up over time, making your pots and pans look bad and affecting your cooking. Let baking soda come to the rescue and eliminate those stubborn stains.

Here’s how to use it to remove grease stains from pots and pans:

• Sprinkle baking soda into the pot or pan
• Let it sit for a bit to soak in
• Scrub at the stained area
• Rinse the pot or pan