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5 Things To Do with Baking Soda

We all know about baking soda for cleaning and soaking up odours. But this versatile product  has hundreds of uses around the home.

From: Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things, Reader's Digest Canada

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2 comments

    Excellent info. for baking soda.

    Submitted by Gail Dagenais on Thu. 2011-04-14 8:04am

    Love the tips but would like to see an option where I could print all of the ideas suggested

    Submitted by Wendy on Thu. 2011-04-14 9:04am

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