"We put all that baking soda in 250 millilitres of water," he said, adding that many people find the mixture just too concentrated to stomach. Indeed, its salty taste can be a turnoff.

Baking soda’s pH value also makes it an effective deodoriser. Some unpleasant smells on clothes or plastic containers are produced by acids, which are solutions with low pH levels.

Baking soda supplementation wasn’t associated, however, with improvements in blood pressure or cardiovascular disease risk. These findings affirmed 15 or so other studies on the topic.

And given that baking soda is a highly effective, nontoxic wonder powder that can replace a laboratory’s worth of questionable-to-outright-hazardous chemicals in our lives, I still give it the ...

“Tap water is not that effective, baking soda turns out to be very effective,” He continues. The baking soda was effective, she adds, because it has a high pH level that most pesticides are ...

Baking soda shortage has hospitals frantic, delaying treatments and surgeries Sodium bicarbonate is used in a variety of treatments but is inexplicably scarce. Beth Mole – May 22, 2017 10:56 AM ...