12 Clever BAKING SODA and VINEGAR Hacks, Uses & Benefits

Though they’re so widely available, many of the commonly used commercial cleaning products that are on offer today are made of chemicals that can cause or exacerbate illness in humans. Not only that but these products can also negatively impact the environment.
Luckily, environmentally friendly ingredients can also be used as effective cleaning products. Two of the most common green ingredients used for cleaning are baking soda and vinegar. They can be used separately, together, or mixed with other natural products and are a healthier, less toxic way to clean your home.
Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a mild alkali that not only cleans but also deodorizes and is a gentle abrasive. Vinegar is an acid that is an effective, non-toxic alternative to popular cleaners, including bleach. It deodorizes and is often used for the removal of stains, mould, and rust.
Now let’s get into exactly how you can use them, and what for!
1. Multipurpose cleaner
Make up a natural general cleaner with half vinegar, half water and a sprinkle of baking soda in a spray bottle. Shake to mix well before every spray. You can use this as a DIY everyday cleaner for bench tops, kitchen basins, tiles and lots more. Add a few drops of your favourite essential oils to make your whole home smell amazing.
2. Clean your kitchen sink
Wet the sink, sprinkle baking soda over the surface, and scrub, then rinse. Use a soft-bristled toothbrush and the same paste on the rim and caulk. Line the sink with paper towels that you’ve soaked in white vinegar. Leave them there for 20 minutes, then remove to reveal the sparkling kitchen sink of dreams! You’ll be seriously impressed with this one.
3. Clean your drain
You might not remember to clean your drains until they start to smell - and when that happens, it’s usually a sign that you’re one hair or toenail away from a complete blockage. To keep your drain about as clean as a drain can ever be, sprinkle 4 tablespoons of baking soda into it, followed by two cups of vinegar. Once the bubbling stops, flush the drain with boiling water. Use soapy water and vinegar-soaked paper towels to clean the faucet, too.
4. Make a bathroom cleaner
This vinegar and baking soda cleanser works on any bathroom surface. It cuts through soap scum and mildew as well as any commercial bathroom product and costs just pennies. To make the cleanser, mix 1 and a half cups of baking soda and half a cup of liquid soap in a bowl. Dilute with half a cup of water and add 2 tablespoons of white vinegar. Stir the mixture with a fork until any lumps dissolve, then pour the liquid into a spray bottle. Shake well before using. Squirt the solution on the area to be cleaned, and scrub with a nylon-backed sponge. Finish by rinsing off with water. You can use this to clean the germiest spots in your bathroom - just make sure to keep the cleanser covered between uses.
5. Clean grout
Staying in the bathroom, if you have grout that you know needs to be cleaned and you don’t want to pay a professional cleaning service to get it looking like new, try this vinegar and baking soda combo. Sprinkle baking soda in the grout, then spray vinegar over baking soda. Allow the vinegar to react to the baking soda before cleaning the grout by scrubbing it with an old toothbrush. Follow up with a rag to wipe up the dirt. Dip the toothbrush in a cup of water to rinse in between scrubbing.
6. Clean the outside of your toilet
Another must-know baking soda and vinegar hack in the bathroom is to deodorize the outside of the toilets. Simply make a paste with baking soda and water and rub it around the sides and base of the toilet, including the tile surrounding the toilet. Let this sit for 10 to 15 minutes and then spray vinegar over the top. Once the bubbles have done their thing, wipe everything up with a clean wet rag.
7. Remove stains on the carpet
Of course, baking soda and vinegar are great cleaners, independently. And in most cases, vinegar is a great all-purpose cleaner, but there are a number of things you should never clean with vinegar. One thing you can clean with vinegar is your carpet. To lift light carpet stains with vinegar and baking soda, rub them with a mixture of 2 tablespoons salt dissolved in half a cup of white vinegar. Let the solution dry, wait for 2 hours, then vacuum. For larger or darker stains, add 2 tablespoons of baking soda to the mixture and use in the same way.
8. Boost laundry detergent
It may sound like a cliché, but adding half a cup of baking soda to your usual amount of liquid laundry detergent really will give you brighter colours. The baking soda also softens the water, so you can actually use less detergent. Adding half a cup of baking soda in top-loading machines also increases the potency of bleach, so you need only half the usual amount of bleach. If you have clothes that need to be thoroughly cleaned, add a cup of vinegar to the mix. Its antibacterial properties will get your clothes clean in no time -

[@kenishahammond3935]

I personally use Baking Soda, White Vinegar, Lemon Essential oil and Dawn dish soap for cleaning. I Also use Vinegar to clean my shower head. I simply pour White Vinegar into a ziplock bag and I tie it around my shower head and let it set over night. Voila, you have a clean shower head with no more mineral build up.

[@heathertitus4103]

You can wash your windows with vinegar. Helps some with ocean salt spray on glass. Use newspaper to dry when there is salt spray on the windows or rag towels.

[@hanasalem1565]

Thanks, great info.

[@pauladavies1494]

Awesome thanks 😊

[@vlogmepie7022]

Love it helps me out

[@isabelminaya]

Thanks so much, I will apply some of them today. Do you have any hack to iron clothes? Also to wash rusty pans?

[@kevinroark5815]

Brilliant!

[@siddiqdaal8329]

Thanks

[@pinkyagarwal829]

Lovely

[@terindavidson2848]

I enjoy all the information given it helps and I believe it works too

[@csamby1694]

Good video thanks

[@briansingh1631]

very interesting 👍

[@leekaliberum470]

Haha love the sink reference

[@CalebNorthNorman]

It also works for white mold.

[@mariep4018]

Nice!❤👍

[@stephaniehall2552]

Keep them in my home

[@markoap91]

Vinegar and Sodium Bicarbonate neutralize one of them being an acid and the other alkaline. What you're left with is water, carbon dioxide gas that just escapes (and causes that bubbling you see when you mix them) and sodium acetate. None of that is good for cleaning. So while vinegar and sodium bicarbonate can be good for various cleaning purposes on their own mixing them just destroys both chemicals leaving you with ones useless for cleaning.

[@GoldenPantaloons]

Thank you... It's really disappointing how often the bad advice to mix them gets repeated on the internet, especially since everybody should've learned better in, like, 4th grade science as the subject of the "baking soda and vinegar volcano" demonstration - arguably THE most famous, even cliched example of a grade-school science project.

[@joanignaszewski835]

❤

[@a.savvarimuthu9659]

Is baking soda and white vinegar helps to remove bed bug? Pls let me know. Thanks

[@spottedeagle9605]

Does double strength cleaning vinegar, it does have 10%Acetic acid by volume and it's. 2.5 L.

[@rafaelg.toledo1701]

what kind of vinegar to usefor laundry?

[@shivarajue2677]

We have seen all the add where we get baking soda send the details

[@stellahowira8580]

Woow😯🤔✔️

[@DorothySpang]

I've watched this like 4 times so I could Write them ALL Down 😊

[@killitwithfire2321]

How about washing vegetables?

[@suzysandor3131]

Not sure about those two together at all? Used some on my stove top and now instead of shining it is cloudy. I keep rinsing it with soapy warm cloth etc.,,,

[@robbiexp01]

Excellent and well presented video. Only trouble is you missed points 9 to 12 points in the text! Otherwise great.

[@siddiqdaal8329]

Pplase u inform sodiem per carborate

[@DorothySpang]

👍

[@kevinroark5815]

Nothing degreases like baking soda and vinegar not even dish soap

[@velvin098]

Is the voice Watop?

[@xivix6710]

I was about to comment this! WATOP voice is iconic

[@warrentoles3127]

1st comment.

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[@RJ-mh3ox]

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[@Alteori]

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[@sausage4mash]

Baking soda is an alkaline substance Vinegar is acid so add them together if you want something as effective as water ! yeah don't put them together that's dumb on their own fine

[@lynzannabel6990]

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[@HavenEven]

How about cleaning your vegetables in the toilet while brushing your teeth.

[@johnagreen5103]

Toothpaste

[@peterismyfirstname2872]

Why are you using a non-trustworthy fake voice?

[@xivix6710]

He's a normal narrator to me, actually I quit like his voice

[@peterismyfirstname2872]

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[@xivix6710]

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