10 Ways to Use Baking Soda as a Beauty Product

March 23, 2007 · Filed under Baking Soda, Natural Beauty Products, Skin Care

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In my previous posts I have suggested ways to use baking soda, one of nature’s best products, to clean your home - your kitchen, your bathroom, and your laundry. But baking soda can be used as a health and beauty product as well.

Back in the day, baking soda was one of the only beauty products available to clean your teeth, clean your hair, use as a mouthwash, and use in your bath to soften your skin. 

10 ways to use baking soda as a health and beauty product

  1. Clean your teeth - pour a small amount of baking soda in a small dish to dip your damp toothbrush in and brush your teeth as you would normally with commercial toothpaste. 
  2. Natural whitener for teeth - avoid the chemical teeth whiteners available today and just use baking soda to clean your teeth everyday and you will have a nice white smile naturally.
  3. Mouthwash - add 1 teaspoon to a 1/2 glass of water, swish in your mouth for 30 seconds, and rinse.
  4. As a deodorant - for a simple day-to-day deodorant dust your under arms with baking soda after a shower.
  5. Natural face scrub with oatmeal - in your blender mix equal parts of baking soda and oatmeal with a little water to make a facial scrub. Apply to your face gently and rinse.
  6. Men with sensitive skin while shaving, use a baking soda solution of 1 tablespoon baking soda in 1 cup of water as a pre-shave treatment or as an aftershave to soothe your skin. This works for soothing razor burn, as well, for both men and women.  
  7. For sunburn relief, use a solution of 4 tablespoons baking soda in 1 quart water. Saturate your washcloth and apply to affected area. Repeat as necessary.
  8. For windburn relief, apply a paste made of 3 tablespoons baking soda and 1 tablespoon water to the affected area.  This also works well for poison ivy irritation. Do not apply to broken skin.
  9. Relieve tired feet by soaking in a warm water basin with 3 tablespoons of baking soda.
  10. Baking soda added to bathwater has a softening effect on the skin. To make bubble bath salts see directions bellow.

Bubble Bath Salts

  • 2 1/2 cups of baking soda
  • 2 cups cream of tartar
  • 1/2 cup cornstarch

Mix and store in a covered container. Use 1/4 cup per bath.

~Do It Yourself Naturally

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10 Responses so far »

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    Jan said,

    June 21, 2007 @ 6:52 pm

    Great tip about the baking soda for sunburn.

    I use baking soda instead of or with a tiny bit of dishwasher soap (to stop grease build up) in my dishwasher. I also boost it with citric acid powder. That is the ingredient that is in tang and a few other things that are sometimes recommended for natural cleaning power. (I got the idea when I read an article about using a pack of tang drink crystals to clean the dishwasher)

    I find that the baking soda actually works better than dish soap, I don’t get the food pieces in my cup (I can always tell when someone has used only dishwasher soap because I am washing cups!)

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    diy naturally said,

    June 22, 2007 @ 2:42 am

    I just recently got sunburned over the weekend and and I’m so glad I had some baking soda around. It was very soothing.

    Thanks for the extra tips! I need to try them out. Using baking soda in the dishwasher to help cut grease! What a great idea!

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    April @ Natural Health Remedies said,

    July 18, 2007 @ 4:59 pm

    Some years ago my hair suddenly got really greasy. I don’t know why but it coincided with me taking EPO. The more I washed my hair the worse it got. I had to wear a hat so people couldn’t seem my greasy hair.

    I then bought an Aveda detox shampoo but that didn’t work either. So I looked on the net and found that if you put some bicarb of soda in your shampoo that helps clean your hair.

    So I gave it a go and it worked amazingly well. 10/10.

  4. 4

    Eliver Tuzo said,

    July 27, 2007 @ 11:46 am

    Thanks so much for the information placed on your website.I couldn’t just open another site because i’m so many good,pretty stuff and getting more out of it.Keep it up.

  5. 5

    pockoummods said,

    August 10, 2007 @ 2:17 pm

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  6. 6

    Michelle said,

    November 4, 2007 @ 3:22 pm

    I need a natural remedy for coffe stained mustaches. This man has a white thick coarse mustache.

  7. 7

    Paul said,

    February 26, 2008 @ 10:30 am

    Thanks for all the tips. I got burned last weekend and we’ve got a trip planned for this weekend so I’ve got to heal fast. I’m going to try the baking soda bath. I’ve been using aloe and an after sun lotion while drinking lots of water. The itch is still driving me crazy.

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    Aurora said,

    April 16, 2008 @ 6:20 am

    Where does one purchase Cream of Tartar in large amounts economically?
    I was only able to find it at a bulk store and it was $4 for a couple oz!
    2 cups for bath salts would be very expensive.

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    d.i.y. naturally said,

    April 16, 2008 @ 8:59 am

    Aurora -
    I usually find cream of tartar at a whole foods store. But you can also get it online in larger quantities at amazon.com. At amazon go to “Gourmet Foods” and search for cream of tartar or copy and paste the URL bellow.

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dgourmet&field-keywords=cream+of+tartar&x=6&y=25

    Thanks for the comment!
    diy naturally

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    talinan said,

    August 15, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

    I read that baking soda can be used as a dry shampoo in between washings. Have you heard this?

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