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Cleaning and Medicinal Uses for Baking Soda and Vinegar

© Peggy Hoehne

Baking soda and vinegar have dozens of uses in the home for cleaning and medicinal purposes.

Sunburn Treatment With Vinegar and Baking Soda

• Put vinegar in a spray bottle and spray on the sunburn. It soothes for quite some time.
• Saturate towels in a 1/2 water, 1/2 vinegar solution, and place on sunburned area. This treatment may be used overnight.
• Use a vinegar-soaked paper towel; apply to burn.
• Mix a paste of baking soda and apple cider vinegar and apply.
   

Outdoor Uses of Vinegar and Baking Soda

• Add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar to a quart of drinking water to deal with heat stress and to repel mosquitoes.
• Use vinegar as an antiseptic for abrasions and to reduce itch from poison ivy or mosquito bites.
• Soak a cotton ball in cider vinegar and hold it to wasp/bee stings.
• Treat jellyfish stings with a dousing of white vinegar.
• Use 1/2 tsp white distilled vinegar to 1 tbsp rubbing alcohol to prevent swimmer's ear.

Cleaning With Vinegar and Baking Soda

• Soak clothing stained by grass, coffee, tea, or fruit in full-strength vinegar.
• Deodorize the garbage bin with baking soda, lemon juice, and vinegar. The lemon leaves a fresh scent, while the baking soda and vinegar clean and sanitize.
• Use a 1-part water, 1-part vinegar mixture to take pet odors out of carpets. Saturate the spot with about 1 1/2 times the original volume. Let set for awhile then blot up. Repeat if needed.

 Personal Hygiene Uses of Vinegar and Baking Soda

• Try white vinegar on underarms and other areas of the body as a natural deodorant.
• Fight athlete's foot and toenail fungus by soaking those areas in full strength white vinegar.
• Clean nails white vinegar before applying nail polish to have a smoother and longer lasting paint.
• Use 2 cups of cider vinegar in the tub to soak and add potassium to sore muscles.

Vinegar Uses For Animals

• Use vinegar for fleas on puppies too young for regular flea products. Apply warmed white vinegar with a cotton ball; stay away from nose and eyes.
• Add apple cider vinegar to animals' water (cats, dogs, goats, and horses) all year round. It seems to repel flies and fleas in the summer and stops the water from freezing too quickly in the winter. Add about 1/8 of a cup to each 5-gallon bucket.
• Vinegar in pet waters helps prevent slime from accumulating on the container.

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