- 1. Whiten your teeth
- 2. Fight stomach acidity
- 3. Exfoliate your feet to fight foot odor
- 4. Sitz bath against urinary tract infection
- 5. Remove dark spots from the skin
- 6. Improve running training
- 7. Wash your hair thoroughly
- 8. Lighten your nails
- 9. Exfoliate your skin before epilation
- 10. Gargle against itchy throat
Sodium bicarbonate is an alkaline substance that dissolves in water and can be used to whiten your teeth, fight stomach acidity, clear your throat and improve your training performance. However, this substance has many other uses, and can be a good home treatment for:
1. Whiten your teeth
Putting a little bit of baking soda in the toothpaste and using this mixture to brush your teeth is an excellent way to deeply clean your teeth, removing the yellow color and plaque that tends to accumulate in the places less reached by the brush. Brushing your teeth with bicarbonate is good for oral hygiene but it should not be done more than once a week to avoid removing the natural enamel from the teeth, which protect it against cavities.
2. Fight stomach acidity
Taking 1 coffee spoon of bicarbonate mixed in half a glass of water is a good way to combat stomach acidity. This works because bicarbonate is an alkaline substance that will neutralize excess acidity.
3. Exfoliate your feet to fight foot odor
Adding 1 teaspoon to 2 tablespoons of liquid soap is a great way to make a very effective homemade scrub to eliminate the smell of foot odor. Just rub this mixture on your wet feet, rubbing the entire foot, between the toes and the corners of the nails. This works because bicarbonate is an excellent odor neutralizer due to its antifungal action, and therefore it can also be used to eliminate chilblains from the toes.
4. Sitz bath against urinary tract infection
When symptoms of urinary tract infection, such as urgency to urinate, pain and burning when urine passes through the urethra, are present, you can choose a home treatment that consists of filling a bowl with 3 liters of water and adding 3 spoons of sodium bicarbonate soup in the water until it dissolves and sit naked in this water for about 20 to 30 minutes. This will reduce the acidity in the genital area, improving symptoms, but in addition it is also important to drink plenty of water. See what else you can do to fight urinary tract infection.
5. Remove dark spots from the skin
Sometimes a good exfoliation is enough to remove dark spots on the skin. It is possible to make a homemade scrub by mixing 1 tablespoon of baking soda in 3 tablespoons of a thick moisturizer, such as Nivea from the blue can. Just rub this mixture in the desired area daily during the bath and observe that the skin tone will be more uniform in a few days.
6. Improve running training
Alkaline water can be taken during long distance training, improving performance. A good way to make ordinary water into alkaline water is to add 1 coffee spoon of baking soda to 1 liter of water. Learn more at: Benefits of alkaline water for training.
7. Wash your hair thoroughly
Adding 1 coffee spoon in a small amount of shampoo in your hands and mixing turns any simple shampoo into an anti-residue shampoo because the small granules of bicarbonate will act as an exfoliator, being useful to eliminate excess capillary oil, seborrheic dandruff and can even be useful to open the cuticles of the threads, preparing them to receive good hydration, such as heat sealing. See how to do this treatment that leaves your hair perfectly hydrated.
8. Lighten your nails
Mixing 1 coffee spoon of bicarbonate in half a squeezed lemon is an excellent way to remove the yellow color from the nails. Just rub this mixture on each nail, and let it act for a few minutes, then just wash, moisturize and apply sunscreen to avoid the risk of burning your skin when out in the sun.
9. Exfoliate your skin before epilation
Rubbing a little bit of baking soda mixed with water and a little bit of liquid soap on the areas you are going to shave is a great way to remove ingrown hairs and open pores, making it easier to remove unwanted hair. The ideal is to do the exfoliation moments before shaving.
10. Gargle against itchy throat
Itchy throat can be caused by allergy, irritation or infection, in which case mixing 1 tbsp in half a glass of warm water and gargling with this mixture is a good way to eliminate the microorganisms that are in the throat, purifying this region.
